Can I read Natural Catastrophe : Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance on EtoBox?

Natural Catastrophe : Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance by Elliott, Brian, 1969- author is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Natural Catastrophe : Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance about?

1 online resource (202 pages) 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 market́⁰₉s benign production of social utility and construct a new non-apocalyptic politics of nature Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index Introduction -- Political natures -- Nature's ends -- Sustainable development as neoliberal environmentalism -- Environmental politics and place -- The city and the country : towards a new environmentalism Print version record

Who reads Natural Catastrophe : Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance?

Author

Elliott, Brian, 1969- author

Publisher

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474410496

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Political Science