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Hedlund, John.

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The Development of Plastics in the United States: A Political Economic, Historical, and Socioecological Analysis.

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正題名/作者:	The Development of Plastics in the United States: A Political Economic, Historical, and Socioecological Analysis./
作者:	Hedlund, John.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
面頁冊數:	183 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11B.
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電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30984023
ISBN:	9798382626017

The Development of Plastics in the United States: A Political Economic, Historical, and Socioecological Analysis.
Hedlund, John.

The Development of Plastics in the United States: A Political Economic, Historical, and Socioecological Analysis. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 183 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2023.

The purpose of this dissertation is to conduct an historical analysis of plastics as a raw material of production from the mid-19thcentury to the post-World War II period. This is done in light of two Marxian theoretical frameworks that deal with the political economy and socioecology of capitalism: the former being monopoly capitalism-imperialism, while the latter is the theory of social metabolism. This analysis is also conducted through a consideration of what I call the nature/society problematic: debate over how, or whether, to demarcate between social and natural phenomena. This debate is currently concentrated in the milieu of social metabolic scholarship and thought.Beginning in the 19thcentury, I trace the development of plastics of natural origin to synthetic plastics. Specifically, I analyze natural plastics such as rubber, gutta percha, and shellac; celluloid, the first semi-synthetic plastic material; Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, and a thermoset plastic; and the class of synthetic thermoplastics that first emerged between the two world wars and proliferated in the post-War period. In doing so, I consider the relationship between these materials and some critical technoeconomic developments, particularly in the ICT (information and communication technology), military, and transportation sectors, among others. Relatedly, I also consider the relationship between the larger politicaleconomic context and the ecological implications of plastics in its various phases of development.Finally, I conjoin the historical development and current state of plastics with the nature/society problematic. Analyzing the debate between metabolic rift and hybridist approaches to metabolism and use of the dialectical method, I conclude that while society is embedded and rooted in nature, the instance of plastics provides further insights into the ways in which social forms of organization demand distinction between social and non-social, or natural, phenomena.I conclude by suggesting directions for future research on plastics, the society/nature problematic, and the theoretical frameworks I employ. Plastics in its global, and contemporary, iteration requires further critical analysis in the social sciences, where the subject has largely been ignored. The society/nature problematic can be examined through other cases beyond plastic, to further concretize the questions it raises. Further analysis of the ways in which the theoretical frameworks of monopoly capitalism and social metabolism, and the politicaleconomic as well as the socioecological, interface and intersect is also called for.

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