Eco-Socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation

ISBN-13: 9789048137442 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str.

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Opis

This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes of ecological problems than the other Green discourses - such as deep ecology and ecological modernisation theory, and thus has more contributions to make in dealing with the deteriorating ecological crisis throughout the world.

Spis treści

Introduction.- 1. Eco-socialism in an era of capitalist globalisation: Bridging the West and the East.- PART I.- 2. Marxism and ecology: Marx’s theory of labour process revisited.- 3. On contemporary eco-socialism.- 4. Socialism and technology: A sectoral overview.- 5. Local community of eco-politics: Its potentials and limitations.- PART II.- 6. On consumerism and the ‘logic of capital’.- 7. The de-growth utopia: The incompatibility of de-growth within an internationalised market economy.- 8. Bookchin’s social ecology and its contributions to the red-green movement.- 9. How the ecological footprint is sex-gendered: Some implications of eco-feminism for an eco-socialist theory and praxis.- PART III.- 10. Evaluating Japanese agricultural policy from an eco-socialist perspective.- 11. Alternative development: Beyond ecological communities and associations.- 12. Conceptualising the environmentalism in India: Between social justice and deep ecology.- 13. Growth economy and its ecological impacts upon China: An eco-socialist analysis.- CONCLUSIONS. - 14. Prospects for eco-socialism.- Index.- List of the contributors