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The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics - New Directions in Critical Theory Adrian Parr
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The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics - New Directions in Critical Theory
Adrian Parr
Adrian Parr calls attention to the problematic socioeconomic conditions of neoliberal capitalism underpinning the world's current environmental challenges, and she argues that, until we grasp the implications of neoliberalism's interference in climate change talks and policy, humanity is on track to an irreversible crisis. Parr calls out the neoliberalization of nature in the development of green technologies, land use, dietary habits, reproductive practices, consumption patterns, design strategies, and media. She dismisses the notions that the free market can solve and reverse debilitating environmental degradation and that climate change is nothing more than a political ghost emptied of its collective aspirations. Decrying what she perceives as a failure of the human imagination and an impoverishment of political institutions, Parr pushes the sustainability movement to engage more aggressively with the logical and cultural manifestations of consumer economics. If the economically powerful continue to monopolize the meaning of environmental change, she warns, new and more promising collective solutions will fail to take root.
232 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 9, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231158299 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 229 × 15 mm · 314 g |
| Language | English |
