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.

Sommario

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Qingzh Huan (Editore), Qingzhi Huan (Editore)
• Editore: Springer Netherlands
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9789400790506
• ISBN: 978-94-0-079050-6
• Pagine: 224
• Peso: 367 g
• Illustrazioni: XI, 224 p.
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia; 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