Natural Catastrophe
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Natural Catastrophe

Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance

  1. 209 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Natural Catastrophe

Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance

About this book

Brian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is not a natural phenomenon but a political phenomenon: 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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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1 Political natures
  4. Chapter 2 Nature’s ends
  5. Chapter 3 Sustainable development as neoliberal environmentalism
  6. Chapter 4 Environmental politicsand place
  7. Chapter 5 The city and thecountry: towards a new environmentalism
  8. Bibliography
  9. Index

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