The Limits to Capitalist Nature: Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living

Author:   Ulrich Brand ,  Markus Wissen
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
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9781786601568


Pages:   152
Publication Date:   12 March 2018
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Author:   Ulrich Brand ,  Markus Wissen
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9781786601568


ISBN 10:   1786601567
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   12 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Chapter 1: Theorizing the Imperial Mode of Living: An Introduction Chapter 2: The Crisis of Global Environmental Politics and the Imperial Mode of Living Chapter 3: Crisis and Continuity of Capitalist Societal Nature Relations Chapter 4: Strategies of a Green Economy, Contours of a Green Capitalism Chapter 5: The Valorization and Financialization of Nature as Crisis Strategy Chapter 6: Social-Ecological Transformation as the Horizon of a Practical Critique of the Imperial Mode of Living Chapter 7: Towards the Democratization of Societal Nature Relations Chapter 8: Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living: Political and Strategic Implications References Index

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How and why does capitalism ceaselessly exploit the biophysical world yet remain resilient in the face of its manifest failures? Through their concept of the 'imperial mode of living' the authors show how the destructive forces of capitalism become, paradoxically, opportunities not only for political opposition but for capitalism itself. A battery of organisation, geographical and ideological manoeuvres allow the ecological limits to capitalism to be continuously overcome. Leveraging off these limits is the necessary work of capitalism's many opponents. -- Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester


How and why does capitalism ceaselessly exploit the biophysical world yet remain resilient in the face of its manifest failures? Through their concept of the 'imperial mode of living' the authors show how the destructive forces of capitalism become, paradoxically, opportunities not only for political opposition but for capitalism itself. A battery of organisation, geographical and ideological manoeuvres allow the ecological limits to capitalism to be continuously overcome. Leveraging off these limits is the necessary work of capitalism's many opponents.--Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester Brand and Wissen's remarkable synthesis of political sociology and political ecology tells how a hegemonic mode of consumption regulates society-nature relations under a newly emergent 'internationalised state'. If you want to know why global environmental crisis stems from 'the imperial way of living'; why financialization and the green economy stops its effective management; and why participatory socio-ecological transformation is urgent, then this is your book.--Ariel Salleh, Research Associate, Political Economy, The University of Sydney Brand and Wissen offer an innovative perspective on the limits of capitalist nature. The book is an important addition to the literature on the eco-social transformation of contemporary capitalism. Scholars, students and activists should read it.--Max Koch, Professor in Social Policy, Lund University This book has breakthrough appeal. It cuts through a thick layer of ideology around the crises of the societal relationships with nature in an age of climate change. Its innovative and precise core concept of 'the imperial mode of living' reveals the chief contradictions of daily life in neoliberalism and is a crucial contribution to current debates on the Capitalocene.--Roger Keil, Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University


How and why does capitalism ceaselessly exploit the biophysical world yet remain resilient in the face of its manifest failures? Through their concept of the 'imperial mode of living' the authors show how the destructive forces of capitalism become, paradoxically, opportunities not only for political opposition but for capitalism itself. A battery of organisation, geographical and ideological manoeuvres allow the ecological limits to capitalism to be continuously overcome. Leveraging off these limits is the necessary work of capitalism's many opponents.--Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester Brand and Wissen's remarkable synthesis of political sociology and political ecology tells how a hegemonic mode of consumption regulates society-nature relations under a newly emergent 'internationalised state'. If you want to know why global environmental crisis stems from 'the imperial way of living'; why financialization and the green economy stops its effective management; and why participatory socio-ecological transformation is urgent, then this is your book.--Ariel Salleh, Research Associate, Political Economy, The University of Sydney Brand and Wissen offer an innovative perspective on the limits of capitalist nature. The book is an important addition to the literature on the eco-social transformation of contemporary capitalism. Scholars, students and activists should read it.--Max Koch, Professor in Social Policy, Lund University


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Ulrich Brand is Professor of International Politics at the University of Vienna. Markus Wissen is Professor of Social Science at the Berlin School of Economics & Law.

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