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The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
Adrian Parr
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Description for The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
Paperback. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JPFK; KCN; RND; RNPG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, and there are indications of a more virulent strain of capital accumulation on the horizon. Adrian Parr calls attention to the problematic socioeconomic conditions of neoliberal capitalism underpinning the world's 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 not only exposes the global ... Read more
Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, and there are indications of a more virulent strain of capital accumulation on the horizon. Adrian Parr calls attention to the problematic socioeconomic conditions of neoliberal capitalism underpinning the world's 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 not only exposes the global ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
New Directions in Critical Theory
Condition
New
Weight
314g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231158299
SKU
V9780231158299
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About Adrian Parr
Adrian Parr is the chair and director of the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati and UNESCO cochair of water and sustainability. She is the author of Hijacking Sustainability; Deleuze and Memorial Culture: Desire, Singular Memory, and the Politics of Trauma; and New Directions in Sustainable Design (coedited with Michael Zaretsky).
Reviews for The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
This book is a welcome addition to the spate of recent books on the ecological and resource calamities currently facing the planet. Unlike so many others - one thinks in this context of authors as disparate as Bill McKibben and Richard Heinberg - Parr analyses the crisis in the context of global inequality and social injustice.
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