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Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

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Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

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A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature

Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

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Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism book

A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature
Edited ByMark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael Redclift
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 1 December 2011
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203146118
Pages 224
eBook ISBN 9780203146118
Subjects Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Politics & International Relations
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Pelling, M., Manuel-Navarrete, D., & Redclift, M. (Eds.). (2011). Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203146118

ABSTRACT

Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume argues that the combination of global environmental change and global economic restructuring require a re-thinking of the priorities, processes and underlying values that shape contemporary development aspirations and policy.

This volume brings together leading scholars to address these questions from several disciplinary perspectives: environmental sociology, human geography, international development, systems thinking, political sciences, philosophy, economics and policy/management science. The book is divided into four sections that examine contemporary development discourses and practices. It bridges geographical and disciplinary divides and includes chapters on innovative governance that confront unsustainable economic and environmental relations in both developing and developed contexts. It emphasises the ways in which dominant development paths have necessarily forced a separation of individuals from nature, but also from society and even from ‘self’. These three levels of alienation each form a thread that runs through the book. There are different levels and opportunities for a transition towards resilience, raising questions surrounding identity, governance and ecological management. This places resilience at the heart of the contemporary crisis of capitalism, and speaks to the relationship between the increasingly global forms of economic development and the difficulties in framing solutions to the environmental problems that carbon-based development brings in its wake.. Existing social science can help in not only identifying the challenges but also potential pathways for making change locally and in wider political, economic and cultural systems, but it must do so by identifying transitions out of carbon dependency and the kind of political challenges they imply for reflexive individuals and alternative community approaches to human security and wellbeing. 

Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism contains contributions from leading scholars to produce a rich and cohesive set of arguments, from a range of theoretical and empirical viewpoints. It analyses the problem of resilience under existing circumstances, but also goes beyond this to seek ways in which resilience can provide a better pathway and template for a more sustainable future. This volume will be of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Human Geography, Environmental Policy, and Politics.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|17 pages

Climate change and the crisis of capitalism: Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete and Michael Redclift

ByMARK PELLING , DAVID MANUEL - NAVARRETE AND

part |1 pages

PART I Problem framing

chapter 2|16 pages

Living with a new crisis: climate change and transitions out of carbon dependency: Michael Redclift

ByMICHAEL REDCLIFT

chapter 3|14 pages

Policy discourses of resilience: Katrina Brown

ByKATRINA BROWN

chapter 4|15 pages

Resilience and transformation: Mark Pelling

ByMARK PELLING

part |1 pages

PART II Resilience and the power- knowledge interface

chapter 5|16 pages

Paradigm shift in US climate policy but where is the system shift?: Marcus Carson

ByMARCUS CARSON

chapter 6|14 pages

Lessons from the urban poor: Collective action and the rethinking of development: Diana Mitlin

ByDIANA MITLIN

chapter 7|15 pages

A suitable climate for political action? A sympathetic review of the politics of transition: Peter North and Molly Scott Cato

ByPETER NORTH AND MOLLY SCOTT CATO

chapter 8|12 pages

Ecological modernisation and the spaces for feasible action on climate change: Andy Gouldson and Rory Sullivan

ByANDY GOULDSON, RORY SULLIVAN

part |1 pages

PART III Beyond capitalism: critical theory and de- growth

chapter 9|14 pages

Climate change, ‘the cancer stage of capitalism’ and the return of limits to growth: Towards a political economy of sustainability: John Barry

ByJOHN BARRY

chapter 10|14 pages

The ideology of growth: Tourism and alienation in Akumal, Mexico: David Manuel-Navarrete

ByMexico DAVID MANUEL - NAVARRETE

part |1 pages

PART IV The new politics of climate change

chapter 11|14 pages

Utopian thought as a missed opportunity and leverage point for systemic change: Mattias Hjerpe and Björn-Ola Linnér

Edited ByMark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael Redclift

chapter 12|14 pages

Resource exchange, political strategy and the ‘new’ politics of climate change: Ian Bailey and Hugh Compston

ByIAN BAILEY, HUGH COMPSTON

part |1 pages

PART V Conclusion

chapter 13|10 pages

Conclusions: Alienation, reclamation and a radical vision: David Manuel-Navarrete, Mark Pelling and Michael Redclift

ByDAVID MANUEL - NAVARRETE , MARK PELLING AND MICHAEL
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