The Politics of Ecosocialism (eBook, ePUB)

Transforming welfare
Redaktion: Borgnäs, Kajsa; Warlenius, Rikard; Perkiö, Johanna; Eskelinen, Teppo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues. This innovative book offers a unique perspective, stressing the necessity of both ecological and social change as it discusses how to create a "red-green" or "eco-socialist" society.

Examining the current crises of welfare capitalism as well as the challenges and conflicts of an eco-socialist society, the book proposes a new social order that would combine the ideals of egalitarianism and of environmental sustainability. It analyses the key social and ecological issues related to the welfare state, including green Keynesianism, ecological Marxism, the limits of growth and no-growth, capitalist barriers to a renewable energy transition, proposals for a universal basic income and the role of technology. Finally, the book outlines possible paths of transformation towards creating an eco-socialist society, drawing out lessons that can be applied internationally.

This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in economics, environmental studies and political science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317609254
• Artikelnr.: 43436785

Autorenporträt

Kajsa Borgnäs is a PhD student at the Economic and Social Science Faculty at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Teppo Eskelinen is a researcher of social sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. Johanna Perkiö is a doctoral candidate at the University of Tampere, Finland. Rikard Warlenius is a doctoral candidate at Lund University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Kajsa Borgnäs, Teppo Eskelinen, Johanna Perkiö and Rikard
Warlenius Part 1: Yhe Scene 1. Marxist Crisis Theory and the Global
Environmental Challenge Kajsa Borgnäs 2. The Sustainability of Welfare
Capitalism: Redefining institutions and agency David Eklind Kloo 3.
Politics in a World of Scarcity Ville Lähde Part 2: The Challenge 4.
Technology and Sustainability in the Light of Questions of Determinism
Fredrik Sjögren 5. A Renewable Energy Transition: Capitalist barriers,
socialist enticements Rikard Warlenius 6. Possibilities and Limits of Green
Keynesianism Teppo Eskelinen 7. Commons Against Capitalism Tero Toivanen
Part 3: Strategy and Agency 8. Universal Basic Income: A cornerstone of the
new economic order Johanna Perkiö 9. Out of the Frying Pan: People on the
move in a warmer world and how to receive them Shora Esmailian 10. Climate
Jobs as Tipping Point: Norwegian grassroots challenging the oil and climate
change hegemony Andreas Ytterstad 11. Socialism of Barbeque, War Communism
or Geo-engineering: Some thoughts on choices in a time of emergency
Andreas Malm 12. Afterword John Bellamy Foster