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Natural Catastrophe: Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance

By Brian Elliott

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781474410502
DOI
10.1515/9781474410502
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1139778 bytes)
Pages
208\208
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 04:31:30

Description

Radically revises our conception of climate change as a political problem, not a natural phenomenonBrian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is, in fact, a symptom of neoliberal governance. This helps us to understand how, across wealthy liberal democracies, environmental concern has increasingly been framed as a consumer responsibility issue rather than as a matter of structural social-political transformation.Thinking of a world truly beyond climate change requires us to reimagine the state beyond its current neoliberal configuration. Elliott argues that, in order to achieve this, environmental politics in the west needs to renew the Marxist challenge to the global market’s benign production of social utility and construct a new non-apocalyptic politics of nature.

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