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Brian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is not a natural phenomenon but a political phenomenon:a symptom of neoliberal governance. This explains why environmental concern has increasingly been framed as a consumer responsibility issue rather than as a matter of structural social-political transformation.
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Brian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is not a natural phenomenon but a political phenomenon: a symptom of neoliberal governance. This 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. Elliott 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.
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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
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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
Author Biography
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Political Natures 2. Nature's Ends 3. Sustainable Development as Neoliberal Environmentalism 4. Environmental Politics and Place 5. The City and the Country. Towards a New Environmentalism
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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 University
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Brian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is not a natural phenomenon but a political phenomenon: a symptom of neoliberal governance. This 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. Elliott 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.
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Natural Catastropheis 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.
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Radically revises our conception of climate change as a political problem, not a natural phenomenon
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Radically revises our conception of climate change as a political problem, not a natural phenomenon Brian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is, in fact, a symptom of neoliberal governance. This 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. Elliott 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.
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Brian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is, in fact, a symptom of neoliberal governance. This 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. Elliott 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.
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Environmental studies, political and social theory, urban studies, environmental ethics and sustainability.
Details ISBN1474410499 Publisher Edinburgh University Press ISBN-10 1474410499 ISBN-13 9781474410496 Format Paperback Media Book Imprint Edinburgh University Press Subtitle Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Year 2016 Pages 208 Author Brian Elliott DEWEY 363.7 Short Title Natural Catastrophe Language English Publication Date 2016-11-30 UK Release Date 2016-11-30 NZ Release Date 2016-11-30 Audience General AU Release Date 2017-02-22 Alternative 9781474410489 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this
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