Going against both the naive techno-optimism of 'greening business as usual' and a resurgent 'catastrophism' within green thinking and politics, The Politics of Unsustainability offers an analysis of the causes of unsustainability and diminished human flourishing. It makes a case for seeing that it is profound and deepening unsustainability and growing injustice that characterises the modern world, and that therefore the focus of green or other progressive thinking should shift from its current framing in terms of 'sustainability', 'sustainable development', and 'theories of justice'. The...
Going against both the naive techno-optimism of 'greening business as usual' and a resurgent 'catastrophism' within green thinking and politics, The P...
Offers a thematic centred approach, which serves as a guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another including examinations of the works of the key theorists such as Marx, Mill, Habermas, and Adorno.
Offers a thematic centred approach, which serves as a guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another including exam...