The Wrath of Capital

Informationen zum Autor Adrian Parr is associate professor in the School of Architecture and Interior Design and at the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Hijacking Sustainability, Deleuze and Memorial Culture: Desire, Singular Memory, and the Politics of Trauma, and New Directions in Sustainable Design (coedited with Michael Zaretsky). Klappentext While climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes required to reverse these trends. Rather, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, indicating a more virulent strain of capital accumulation on the horizon. Adrian Parr calls attention to the problematic socioeconomic condition of neoliberal capitalism underpinning the world¿s environmental challenges, and she argues that, until we grasp the implications of neoliberalism¿s interference in climate change talks and policy, humanity is on track to an irreversible crisis. Parr not only exposes the global failure to produce equitable political options for environmental regulation, but she also breaks down the dominant political paradigms hindering the discovery of a viable alternative. She highlights the neoliberalization of nature in the development of green technologies, land use, dietary habits, reproductive practices, consumption patterns, design strategies, and media. She dismisses the notion that the free market can solve debilitating environmental degradation and climate change as nothing more than a political ghost emptied of its collective aspirations. If the economically powerful continue to monopolize the meaning of environmental change, she warns, new, more promising collective solutions to our problems will fail to take root.

Product details

• Authors: Parr, Adrian Parr, Parr Adrian
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2012
• EAN: 9780231158282
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15828-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 237 mm x 20 mm
• Series: New Directions in Critical The; New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical Theory (COL)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Political science & theory, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Political science and theory, Environmentalist thought and ideology, political science; history; philosophy