Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia: An Eco-Socialist Vision for the Future

ISBN-13: 9781032064895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str.

Hans a. Baer

Opis

Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition and Australian Labor parties.

Spis treści

Preface, Introduction,  Chapter 1 - The Impact of Climate Change in Australia,  Chapter 2 – Australian Capitalism as a Driver of Climate Change,  Chapter 3 – Climate Politics at the Top: The Corporations and the Two Major Parties, Chapter 4 – Climate Politics at the Margins: The Greens, Labour Unions, Environmental NGOs, and the Grass-Roots Climate Movement,  Chapter 5 – Engaging with the Australian Climate Movement: An Autoethnography of a Climate Justice Activist,  Chapter 6 – Toward Eco-Socialism in Australia,  Chapter 7 – Australia and Eco-Socialism in Global Context

O autorze

Hans A. Baer is an anthropologist based at the University of Melbourne. He works extensively on a diversity of research topics, including Mormonism, African-American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical health anthropology, medical pluralism in the US, UK, and Australia, the critical anthropology of climate change, and eco-socialism.