Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 16:45:43 -0600 (MDT)
From: John Foster <JFOSTER@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Subject: John Foster.
Dear PSNers, Some time ago a request was made for personal introductions
of participants on the list.  I have been on the net for a while but have
not sent a message before.  My passion at present is environmental
sociology/environmental political economy.  I have just published a book
with Monthly Review Press entitled The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic
History of the Environment.  It is 160 pages long and includes the following
chapters: 1. The Ecological Crisis. 2. Ecological Conditions Before the
Industrial Revolution. 3. The Environment at the Time of the Industrial
Revolution. 4. Expansion and Conservation. 5. The Vulnerable Planet. 6. The
Socialzation of Nature.  I am a member of the editorial board of Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism and a member of the Monthly Review Foundation Board.  I
belong to both the Marxist Sociolgical Theory and Environment and Technology
sections of the ASA.  Much of my work is still in political economy and
Marxist theory.  I would like to know if there are any people in PSN who
are particularly interested in the environment as a central new area for
sociological theory.  I would like nothing more than to see people take up
this issue and its centrality for progressive sociology of all types.  If
there is no response I will recede once more into the background.  
In Solidarity, John Bellamy Foster, Department of Sociology, University of
Oregon JFOSTER@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU