Limits to Capitalist Nature

Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living

AvUlrich Brand,Markus Wissen

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-03-12
Mått:151 x 230 x 12 mm
Vikt:240 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Transforming Capitalism
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786601568

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Ulrich Brand is Professor of International Politics at the University of Vienna.Markus Wissen is Professor of Social Science at the Berlin School of Economics & Law.

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How and why does capitalism ceaselessly exploit the biophysical world yet remain resilient in the face of its manifest failures? Through their concept of the 'imperial mode of living' the authors show how the destructive forces of capitalism become, paradoxically, opportunities not only for political opposition but for capitalism itself. A battery of organisation, geographical and ideological manoeuvres allow the ecological limits to capitalism to be continuously overcome. Leveraging off these limits is the necessary work of capitalism's many opponents.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Theorizing the Imperial Mode of Living: An IntroductionChapter 2: The Crisis of Global Environmental Politics and the Imperial Mode of LivingChapter 3: Crisis and Continuity of Capitalist Societal Nature Relations Chapter 4: Strategies of a Green Economy, Contours of a Green CapitalismChapter 5: The Valorization and Financialization of Nature as Crisis StrategyChapter 6: Social-Ecological Transformation as the Horizon of a Practical Critique of the Imperial Mode of Living Chapter 7: Towards the Democratization of Societal Nature Relations Chapter 8: Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living: Political and Strategic ImplicationsReferences Index