Natural Catastrophe: Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance - Softcover

Elliott, Brian

 
9781474410496: Natural Catastrophe: Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474410499 ISBN 13: 9781474410496
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2016

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Radically revises our conception of climate change as a political problem, not a natural phenomenon

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Brian Elliott is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of Benjamin for Architects (Routledge, 2011) and Constructing Community (Lexington, 2010). His research is situated at the intersection of political and urban theory.



Brian Elliott is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of Benjamin for Architects (Routledge, 2011) and Constructing Community (Lexington, 2010). His research is situated at the intersection of political and urban theory.

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‘Natural Catastrophe is an original contribution to the growing field of the environmental humanities. It offers an unorthodox reckoning with the narrative of natural catastrophe that sustains both environmental and neoliberal solutions to the problem of climate change and calls for a return to the radical experiments in political thought seen in the nineteenth century.’Janet Stewart, Durham UniversityA lively introduction to the social and political dimensions of the current climate change and sustainability debatesThe voices proclaiming that climate change is a natural catastrophe grow ever more strident. This book offers the persuasive alternative argument that climate change is in fact a profoundly political phenomenon and a symptom of neoliberal governance. Viewing it as such helps us to understand how, across wealthy liberal democracies, environmental concern has increasingly been framed as a consumer responsibility issue rather than as a matter of structural social–political transformation. Thinking of a world truly beyond climate change requires us to reimagine the state beyond its current neoliberal configuration. This book argues that, in order to achieve this, environmental politics in the West needs to renew the Marxist challenge to the global market’s benign production of social utility and construct a new non-apocalyptic politics of nature.Brian Elliott is Assistant Professor at Portland State University. His work applies contemporary European philosophy to problems in architecture, art, politics and the environment.Cover image: Snow storm, steam-boat off a harbor's mouth, 1842, by William Turner © akg-images / De Agostini / M. CarrieriCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.com [please note new web address]ISBN (cover): 978-1-4744-1049-6ISBN (PPC): 978-1-4744-1048-9Barcode

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Verlag
EDINBURGH UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474410499
ISBN 13 
9781474410496
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1
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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9781474410489: Natural Catastrophe: Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language)

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ISBN 10:  1474410480 ISBN 13:  9781474410489
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2016
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