C.V in brief
Journal Articles
2015 Behling, F. and Harvey, M ‘The evolution of false self-employment in the British
construction industry: a neo-Polanyian account of labour market formation.
Work, Employment and Society. DOI 10.117/0950017014559960
2014 ‘Comparing comparing: exercises in stretching – concepts’, Anthropology of Food,
S10.
2014 ‘On the horns of the food-energy-climate change trilemma: towards a socio-
economic analysis’, Theory, Society and Culture, Special Issue, 31, 5, 155-82
2013 ‘Capitalism: restless and unbounded? Some neo-Polanyian and Schumpeterian
reflections’ Harvey, M. and McMeekin, A. Economics of Innovation and New
Technology, Special Issue in honour of J.S. Metcalfe.
2012 ‘Rudderless in a sea of yellow: the European political economy impasse
for renewable transport energy’ Harvey, M. and Pilgrim, S., New Political Economy
June.
2011 ‘The new competition for land: food, energy and climate change’, Food Policy
Journal, Harvey, M. and Pilgrim, S. 36, S1, 40-51.
Abstract
This seminar presents the core ideas of Mark Harvey’s current ESRC Professorial Fellowship research on the food-energy-climate change trilemma. The concept of the sociogenesis of climate change will be elaborated in terms of how different political economies interact with their own environmental resource constraints of land, water and energy. The emerging geopolitical dynamic between Brazil and China serves to illustrate the necessity for social science to analyse such interactions as a major source of historical and societal variation. Land-use in Brazil and China, food security and the rising consumption of meat are reflected in these nation’s contrasting but interlinked sustainability crises. Their distinctive political regimes, with different developmental trajectories, are significantly conditioned by sharply contrasting environmental resources of land, water, solar and fossil energy. Developing his neo-Polanyian approach, the argument will be made for a social science understanding of ‘the shifting place of the economy in nature’ in the political shaping of economies manifest in the sociogenesis of, and responses to, climate change.
