Ecology, imperialism and the contradictions of capitalism York University, Toronto, Canada, July 2005

In July 2005, a conference titled "Ecology, Imperialism and the Contradictions of Capitalism," was held in the middle of a York University Summer School on International Political Economy and Ecology. Papers were presented within varied contexts of privatizaiton and international finance institutions, translocal political struggles and counter-hegemonic moments, and extreme resource depletion and public health epidemics. Panels covered original explorations into feminism and patriarchy, critical theory and the idea of social-nature, Marxist inquiry and James O'Connor's oeuvre in ecosocialism, ecological crisis, and the conditions of production.