The Politics of Ecosocialism: Transforming Welfare

ISBN-13: 9781138894723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 212 str.

Kajsa Borgnas; Teppo Eskelinen; Johanna Perkio

Opis

This book discusses the idea of "red-green" or "eco-socialist" society and how to get there. In examining today's crises of welfare capitalism as well as the challenges and conflicts of an eco-socialist society, the book analyses a social order that would combine the ideals of egalitarianism and of environmental sustainability. The book discusses the key social and ecological issues related to the welfare state, including green Keynesianism, ecological Marxism, the limits of growth and no-growth, capitalist barriers to a renewable energy transition, proposals for a universal basic income and the role of technology.

Spis treści

Introduction Kajsa Borgnäs, Teppo Eskelinen, Johanna Perkiö and Rikard Warlenius  Part 1: Yhe Scene 1. Marxist Crisis Theory and the Global Environmental Challenge Kajsa Borgnäs  2. The Sustainability of Welfare Capitalism: Redefining institutions and agency David Eklind Kloo  3. Politics in a World of Scarcity Ville Lähde  Part 2: The Challenge  4. Technology and Sustainability in the Light of Questions of Determinism Fredrik Sjögren  5. A Renewable Energy Transition: Capitalist barriers, socialist enticements  Rikard Warlenius  6. Possibilities and Limits of Green Keynesianism Teppo Eskelinen  7. Commons Against Capitalism Tero Toivanen  Part 3: Strategy and Agency  8. Universal Basic Income: A cornerstone of the new economic order Johanna Perkiö  9. Out of the Frying Pan: People on the move in a warmer world and how to receive them Shora Esmailian  10. Climate Jobs as Tipping Point: Norwegian grassroots challenging the oil and climate change hegemony Andreas Ytterstad  11. Socialism of Barbeque, War Communism or Geo-engineering: Some thoughts on choices in a time of emergency Andreas Malm  12. Afterword John Bellamy Foster

O autorze

Kajsa Borgnäs is a PhD student at the Economic and Social Science Faculty at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Teppo Eskelinen is a researcher of social sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. Johanna Perkiö is a doctoral candidate at the University of Tampere, Finland. Rikard Warlenius is a doctoral candidate at Lund University, Sweden.