Wrath of Capital
«This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others - one thinks in this context of authors as disparate as Bill McKibben and Richard Heinberg - Parr analyses the crisis in the context of global inequality and social injustice. -- Allan Stoekl Radical Philosophy an engaging, hard-hitting critique of neoliberalism Choice»
Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, and there are indications of a more virulent strain of capital accumulation on the horizon. Les mer
She dismisses the notion that the free market can solve debilitating environmental degradation and climate change as nothing more than a political ghost emptied of its collective aspirations. Decrying what she perceives as a failure of the human imagination and an impoverishment of political institutions, Parr ruminates on the nature of change and existence in the absence of a future. The sustainability movement, she contends, must engage more aggressively with the logic and cultural manifestations of consumer economics to take hold of a more transformative politics. If the economically powerful continue to monopolize the meaning of environmental change, she warns, new and more promising collective solutions will fail to take root.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231158299
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others - one thinks in this context of authors as disparate as Bill McKibben and Richard Heinberg - Parr analyses the crisis in the context of global inequality and social injustice. -- Allan Stoekl Radical Philosophy an engaging, hard-hitting critique of neoliberalism Choice»