Matthew T. Huber
Professor, Geography and the Environment
Director of Graduate Studies, Geography
Degree
Ph.D., Clark University, 2009
Specialties
Political economy, historical geography, energy and capitalism, climate politics, resource governance and social theory
Publications
Books:
Climate
Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet(Verso
Books – out in May 2022).
2013.
Lifeblood:
Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press).
Public
Writing:
Blogging
intermittently on medium.com.
“Lifestyle
Environmentalism Will Never Win over Workers”Jacobin
(Print),
No. 42 (Summer 2021): 85-93
“Climate
Doom Won’t Save the Planet”Jacobin,
July 23, 2021.
“Race,
Class and the Climate Crisis”Impakter,
May 25, 2021.
“Why
the Green New Deal has Failed – So Far”Jacobin,
May 10, 2021.
“Rich
People Are Fueling Climate Catastrophe — But Not Mostly Because of
Their Consumption”Jacobin,
May 2, 2021.
“Revenge
of the Plans”The
Trouble,
April 2, 2021.
“The
Oil Crash Should Be Our Chance to Transform Energy Production”
(with Hadas Thier) Jacobin
7
May 2020.
“COVID-19
Shows Why We Must Socialize the Food System”Jacobin
17
April 2020.
“Climate
change is class struggle” Review of Naomi Klein’s On
Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal,
for Jacobin,
19 December 2019
“Bernie
is the best chance we have on climate”Jacobin,
22 July 2019.
“Ecosocialism:
Dystopian and Scientific”Socialist
Forum (Winter
2019 issue on Climate Change)
“A
Class Struggle Strategy for A Green New Deal” (with Jeremy
Gong, Keith Brower Brown and Jamie Munro) Socialist
Forum (Winter
2019 issue on Climate Change)
“Climate
and contradiction in Marx’s theory of history”Marxist
Sociology Blog 6
February 2019.
“Building
a “Green New Deal”: Lessons from the Original New Deal”Verso
Books Blog,
19 November 2018.
“5
Principles of Socialist Climate Politics”The
Trouble,
16 August 2018.
“A
Climate policy for the people”American
Prospect 16
November 2017.
“Whose
carbon footprint matters?”Toxic
News,
August 7th,
2017
“Syracuse
University professor condemns Koch foundation investment”
December 4th,
2016 The
Daily Orange
“The
carbon tax is doomed”Jacobin
(online),
October 9th,
2016
“Elon
Musk saves the world?”Jacobin
(online)
May 12th,
2015
“Too
much oil”Jacobin
(online) March 22nd,
2015
“Syracuse
University adjunct faculty call for better pay, working conditions
(Commentary)”Syaracuse.Com/The
Post-Standard,
February 24th,
2015
Peer
Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
2021.
“The Social Production of Resources: A Marxist Approach” In, The
Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography
Matthew Himley, Gabriela Valdivia and Elizabeth Havice (eds) (London:
Routledge), 167-176.
2021.
Still no shortcuts for climate change. Catalyst
4(4):
124-149.
2020.
Ecology at the point of production: climate change and class
struggle. Polygraph
28:
23-43 (invited contribution for special issue on Marxism and Climate
Change).
2020.
“Electric Communism: The Continued Importance of Energy to
Revolution” In, Lenin
150
(Cantley, Canda: Daraja Press), 225-237
2019.
Ecological politics for the working class. Catalyst
3(1):
7-45 (online here).
2019.
Radical paradoxes: The making of Antipode
at
Clark University. In, Trevor Barnes and Eric Sheppard, Spatial
Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond (London:
Wiley), 87-113 (with Chris Knudson and Renee Tapp).
2019.
“Energized
Antagonisms: Thinking Beyond ‘Energy Culture’” In, Imre Szeman
and Jeff Diamanti (eds), Energy
Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond (Morgantown:
WVU Press), 233-245.
2019.
Resource geography II: What makes resources political? Progress
in Human Geography 43(3):
553-564
2018.
Resource geography I: Valuing nature (or not) Progress
in Human Geography 42(1):
148-159
2018.
“Fossilized liberation: Energy, freedom, and the ‘development of
the productive forces’” In, Materialism
and the Critique of Energy,
Brent Ryan Bellamy and Jeff Diamanti (editors). Chicago: MCM’
Press, 501-524.
2018.
“Geography” for The
Bloomsbury Companion to Marx,
Andrew Pendakis, Imre Szeman, Jeff Diamanti (eds).
2017.
Reinvigorating Class in Political Ecology: Nitrogen capital and the
means of degradation. Geoforum
85:
345-352 (special issue on “Political Industrial Ecology”)
2017.
“Hidden abodes: Industrializing political ecology” Annals
of the American Association of Geographers 107(1):
151-166
2017.
“Value, nature and labor: A defense of Marx” Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism
28(1): 39-52
2017.
“We can’t be dependent on anybody”: The rhetoric of “energy
independence” and the legitimation of fracking in Pennsylvania.
Extractive
Industries and Society
4(2): 337-343(with
Carlo Sica)
2017
Beyond the subterranean energy regime? Fuel, land-use, and the
production of space Transactions
of the Institute of British Geographers (with
James McCarthy) 42(4): 655-668
2017.
“Chemical dialectics” in “Chemical Geographies” (special
compendium essay with Adam Romero, Julie Guthman, Ryan Galt, Becky
Mansfield, and Suzana Sawyer) Geohumanities
3(1):
165-166; 158-177
2017.
“Petro-capitalism”, Wiley-AAG
International Encyclopedia of Geography,
edited by Doug Richardson, et al.
2017.
“Political Economy of Environment and Resources” Wiley-AAGInternational
Encyclopedia of Geography,
edited by Doug Richardson, et al.
2016.
“Teaching Energy Geography? It’s complicated” Journal
of Geography and Higher Education,
40(1): 77-83; Special Issue on Teaching Energy Geography.
2016.
“Neoliberal energies: Crisis, governance and hegemony” In, The
Handbook of Neoliberalism
Simon Springer, Kean Birch, and Julie MacLeavy (eds). London:
Routledge, 479-488.
2015.
“Theorizing energy geographies” Geography
Compass 9(6):
27-38.
2015.
Author response, “Lifeblood
Book
Forum” Cultural
Geographies
22 (4): 750-754.
2015.
“Energy and Social Power: From Political Ecology to the Ecology of
Politics” In, The
Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology,
edited by Tom Perreault, James McCarthy, and Gavin Bridge (London:
Routledge), 481-492.
2015.
“Oil for Life: The Bureau of Mines and the Biopolitics of the
Petroleum Market,” Subterranean
Estates: Lifeworlds of Oil and Gas,
edited by Hannah Appel, Arthur Mason, and Michael Watts (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press), 31-44.
2013.
Fueling Capitalism: Oil, the regulation approach, and the ecology of
capital. Economic
Geography 89(2):
171-194.
2013.
Apocalypse, the radical left and the post-political condition.
Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism (with
Mazen Labban and David Correia)
2013.
The urban imaginary of nature: Cities in environmental politics,
Urban Politics: Critical Approaches, edtied by Deborah Martin and
Mark Davidson (Sage), 204-220.
2012.
Refined politics: Petroleum products, neoliberalism, and the ecology
of entrepreneurial life. Journal
of American Studies 46
(2): 295-312 (special issue on “oil cultures”)
2012.
Energy, environment and the geopolitical imagination. Political
Geography 31
(6): 402-403 (invited review essay)
2011.
Enforcing scarcity: Oil, violence and the making of the market.
Annals
of the American Association of Geographers 101
(4): 816-826 (special issue on energy).
2011.
Intervention: Gusher in the Gulf and the despotism of capital.
Antipode
43(2):
195-198 (editorial on the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill).
2011.
Oil, life and the fetishism of geopolitics. Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism.22(3):
32-48.
2011.
Extracting sovereignty: Capital, territory, and gold mining in
Tanzania. Political
Geography 30(2):
70-79 (with Jody Emel and Madoshi Makene).
2011.
The richest hole on earth? Labor, nature and the politics of
metabolism at the Bingham Canyon copper mine. In Engineering
Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects, S.D.
Brunn, A. Wood (eds.), 353-366 (with Jody Emel).
2010.
Circuits of capital. In B. Warf (ed.) The
Encyclopedia of Geography,
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2010.
Human ecology and energy. In B. Warf (ed.) The
Encyclopedia of Geography,
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2010.
Hyphenated geographies: The deindustrialization of nature-society
geography. Geographical
Review 100
(1): 74-89.
2009.
The use of gasoline: Value, oil, and the “American way of life.”
Antipode
41
(3): 465-486.
2009.
Energizing historical materialism: Fossil fuels, space and the
capitalist mode of production. Geoforum
40(1):
105-115.
2009.
Fixed minerals, scalar politics: The weight of scale in conflicts
over ‘the 1872 Mining Act’ in the United States. Environment
and Planning A 41
(2): 371-88 (with Jody Emel).
2008.
From lifeblood to addiction: Oil, space, and the wage-relation in
petro-capitalist USA. Human
Geography 1(2):
42-45.
2008.
A risky business: Mining, rent and the neoliberalization of “risk.”
Geoforum
39
(3): 1393-1407 (with Jody Emel).
2007.
The urbanization of an idea: Imagining nature through urban growth
boundary policy in Portland, OR, USA. Urban
Geography
28(8): 705-731 (with Timothy Currie).
2007.
Global environmental standards for industry. Annual
Review of Environment and Resources,
32: 295-316 (with David Angel and Trina Hamilton).
Research Grants and Awards
2014.
National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences,
$192,777.00
“The
Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry: Integrating Industrial Ecology and
Political Ecology
Approaches”
2014.
James Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in
cultural and political ecology, Cultural and Political Ecology
Specialty Group, The
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Tampa, Fl,
2014.
The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research, (junior
faculty) Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse, NY