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The Limits to Capitalist Nature
eBook - Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living, Transforming Capitalism
ISBN/EAN: 9781786601575
Umbreit-Nr.: 2267655
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 208 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 12.03.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span>The book provides for a historical-materialist understanding of the multiple crises of capitalism, focusing on the ecological crisis and its interaction with other crisis phenomena (financial crisis, crisis of democracy, economic crisis). Drawing on political ecology, Gramscian theory of hegemony, critical state theory and the regulation approach, it introduces the concept of an imperial mode of living in order to better understand the everyday practices and perceptions as well as the social relations of forces and institutional constellations that facilitate environmentally destructive patterns of production and consumption. Furthermore, it develops a historical-materialist critique of the green economy concept that has been propagated in recent years as a solution not only for the ecological but also for the economic crisis. Finally, the book proposes a democratisation of societal nature relations as a way out of the crisis that requires overcoming capitalist property relations and the exclusive forms of controlling nature guaranteed by them.</span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span>Offers an understanding of the multiple crises of capitalism, focusing on the ecological crisis and its interaction with other crisis phenomena (financial crisis, crisis of democracy, economic crisis).</span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span><span>Ulrich Brand is Professor of International Politics at the University of Vienna.</span></span><br><br><span><span>Markus Wissen is Professor of Social Science at the Berlin School of Economics& Law.</span></span>