Eco-Socialism or "Green" Capitalism?: Collected Writings of Saral Sarkar, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9783757861025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 310 str.

Saral Sarkar, Ernst Schriefl

O autorze

Saral Sarkar was born in 1936 in a village of West Bengal, India. After graduating from the University of Calcutta (Kolkata), he studied German language and literature for five years at the Goethe Institute in India and Germany. From 1966 to 1981, he was lecturer of German at the Goethe Institute in Hyderabad, India.Since 1982, he has been living in Cologne, Germany, where he has been active in the Green Movement, Anti-Globalization Movement, and all kinds of ecological and leftist movements. He was member of the Green Party of Germany from 1982 to 1987, but left the party in deep disappointment.Over the years, Sarkar has taken part in many discussions and debates in the above-mentioned areas and published widely in political journals in India, Europe, and the American Continent. His basal theoretical work "Eco-Socialism or Eco-Capitalism? A Critical Analysis of Humanity's Fundamental Choices" (1999, London) has also been published in German, French (in internet), Chinese and Japanese. His other major works are: Green-Alternative Politics in West Germany, Vol. I & II (1993, 1994, Tokyo), and The Crises of Capitalism - A Different Study of Political Economy (2012, Berkeley), which was originally published in German (2010, Neu-Ulm). Ernst Schriefl was born in 1969, grew up in the east of Austria, and has lived mainly in Vienna since 1987. Studies of computer science, environmental engineering and doctoral studies in the field of energy economics. From 1999 to 2007 research associate at the Institute of Energy Economics, Vienna University of Technology. Currently employee in a technical office for building physics and energy efficiency. Since 1999 collaboration in or management of various research and information processing projects. Main focus: Energy efficiency in buildings, strategic energy research, climate policy instruments, bioeconomy. Since the mid-1980s, working on ecological (eco-political) issues. Since the early 1990s also active in environmental NGOs.