
Natural Catastrophe
Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance
Brian Elliott(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 16. November 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-4744-1049-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
Natural Catastrophe is an original contribution to the growing field of the environmental humanities. It offers an unorthodox reckoning with the narrative of natural catastrophe that sustains both environmental and neoliberal solutions to the problem of climate change and calls for a return to the radical experiments in political thought seen in the nineteenth century. -- Janet Stewart, Durham UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
271 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-1049-6 (9781474410496)
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Person
Brian Elliott is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of Benjamin for Architects (Routledge, 2011) and Constructing Community (Lexington, 2010). His research is situated at the intersection of political and urban theory.
Content
Introduction
Political Natures
Nature's Ends
Sustainable Development as Neoliberal Environmentalism
Environmental Politics and Place
The City and the Country. Towards a New Environmentalism
Political Natures
Nature's Ends
Sustainable Development as Neoliberal Environmentalism
Environmental Politics and Place
The City and the Country. Towards a New Environmentalism