Eco-socialism as Politics - Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation

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.

List of contents

Eco-socialism in an Era of Capitalist Globalisation: Bridging the West and the East.- II.- Marxism and Ecology: Marx's Theory of Labour Process Revisited.- On Contemporary Eco-socialism.- Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview.- Local Community of Eco-politics: Its Potentials and Limitations.- III.- On Consumerism and the 'Logic of Capital'.- The De-growth Utopia: The Incompatibility of De-growth within an Internationalised Market Economy.- Bookchin's Social Ecology and Its Contributions to the Red-Green Movement.- How the Ecological Footprint Is Sex-Gendered.- IV.- Evaluating Japanese Agricultural Policy from an Eco-socialist Perspective.- Alternative Development: Beyond Ecological Communities and Associations.- Conceptualising the Environmentalism in India: Between Social Justice and Deep Ecology.- Growth Economy and Its Ecological Impacts Upon China: An Eco-socialist Analysis.- Conclusions.- Prospects for Eco-socialism.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Qingzh Huan (Editor), Qingzhi Huan (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9789400790506
• ISBN: 978-94-0-079050-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 367 g
• Illustrations: XI, 224 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Sustainability, Geography, Urban Planning, Environmental Policy, Political Science, Sustainable Development, Political Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental Social Sciences, Political Science and International Studies, Environmental law, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Regional & area planning, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, Environment law, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy and social sciences