Jason Moore

I am a world historian of the relations between economic, ecological, and social change in the modern world-economy, from its origins in the long 16th century. Within geography, my work pivots on the economic and historical geographies of nature-society relations, with special emphasis on the world-historical intertwining of what we today call the global North and South. My research engages contemporary as well as historiographical debates over ecological crisis, political economy, and agro-ecological transformations in the global North and South from the standpoint of long-run patterns of recurrence and evolution in the modern world-system. I see my work unfolding within a broadly conceived political ecology tradition, and in close dialogue with world-historical studies across the disciplines.