Disaster Capitalism
Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
Published on 3. January 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-78478-118-7 (ISBN)
Description
Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav-els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on or-ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining.
What emerges through Loewenstein's re-porting is a dark history of multinational corpo-rations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valu-able commodity.
What emerges through Loewenstein's re-porting is a dark history of multinational corpo-rations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valu-able commodity.
Reviews / Votes
The forces of disaster capitalism are increasingly on the defensive, but their attacks on the global commons have expanded in the years since I wrote The Shock Doctrine. I am very grateful that Antony Loewenstein has brought his meticulous reporting to this subject, and the result is a keenly observed and timely investigation into rampant resource plunder, privatized detention centers, and an array of other forms of corporate rapacity on four continents. This book will serve as a potent weapon for shock resistors around the world. * Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything * A devastating, incisive follow-up to Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine * Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty Wars * A journey into a world of mutated economics and corrupt politics that we ignore at our peril * John Pilger, author of New Rulers of the World * Chilling study, based on careful and courageous reporting, and illuminated with perceptive analysis, helps us understand all too well the saying that man is a wolf to man. * Noam Chomsky * Our economic system now depends upon transforming emergency relief, incarceration and the processing of asylum seekers into profits. [an] unnerving and convincing book -- Owen Hatherley * Guardian *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
no
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78478-118-7 (9781784781187)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
09/2015
Verso Books
€38.99
Available for download
Previous edition
Book
09/2015
Verso Books
€25.50
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Person
Antony Loewenstein is an independent Australian journalist, documentary maker and blogger who has written for the BBC, the Nation and the Washington Post. He's a weekly Guardian columnist and the author of three best-selling books, My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution and Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World. He is co-editor of After Zionism and Left Turn and co-writer of For God s Sake. His books have been translated, and his journalism has been a finalist in many global awards. He's currently working on a documentary about disaster capitalism. His website can be found at: http://antonyloewenstein.com; and Twitter: @antloewenstein