Natural catastrophe: climate change and neoliberal governance

Radically revises our conception of climate change as a political problem, not a natural phenomenon.<p>Brian 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 conce...

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1. Verfasser: Elliott, Brian 1969- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Radically revises our conception of climate change as a political problem, not a natural phenomenon.<p>Brian 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.</p><p>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.</p>
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ISBN:9781474410502