Natural catastrophe : climate change and neoliberal governance / Brian Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Brian, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Neoliberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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>

Contents:

Introduction

Political natures

Nature's ends

Sustainable development as neoliberal environmentalism

Environmental politics and place

The city and the country : towards a new environmentalism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-1051-0

1-4744-1050-2

OCLC:

1301548344