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Eco-socialism as Politics [electronic resource] : Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation / edited by Qingzhi Huan.

By: Huan, Qingzhi [editor.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010Description: XI, 224p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789048137459.Subject(s): Social sciences | Political science -- Philosophy | Regional planning | Environmental law | Sustainable development | Environmental economics | Political science | Social Sciences | Political Science | Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice | Sustainable Development | Political Philosophy | Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning | Environmental EconomicsDDC classification: 320 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Eco-socialism in an Era of Capitalist Globalisation: Bridging the West and the East -- II -- Marxism and Ecology: Marx’s Theory of Labour Process Revisited -- On Contemporary Eco-socialism -- Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview -- Local Community of Eco-politics: Its Potentials and Limitations -- III -- On Consumerism and the ‘Logic of Capital’ -- The De-growth Utopia: The Incompatibility of De-growth within an Internationalised Market Economy -- Bookchin’s Social Ecology and Its Contributions to the Red-Green Movement -- How the Ecological Footprint Is Sex-Gendered -- IV -- Evaluating Japanese Agricultural Policy from an Eco-socialist Perspective -- Alternative Development: Beyond Ecological Communities and Associations -- Conceptualising the Environmentalism in India: Between Social Justice and Deep Ecology -- Growth Economy and Its Ecological Impacts Upon China: An Eco-socialist Analysis -- Conclusions -- Prospects for Eco-socialism.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes of ecological problems than the other Green discourses - such as deep ecology and ecological modernisation theory, and thus has more contributions to make in dealing with the deteriorating ecological crisis throughout the world.
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Eco-socialism in an Era of Capitalist Globalisation: Bridging the West and the East -- II -- Marxism and Ecology: Marx’s Theory of Labour Process Revisited -- On Contemporary Eco-socialism -- Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview -- Local Community of Eco-politics: Its Potentials and Limitations -- III -- On Consumerism and the ‘Logic of Capital’ -- The De-growth Utopia: The Incompatibility of De-growth within an Internationalised Market Economy -- Bookchin’s Social Ecology and Its Contributions to the Red-Green Movement -- How the Ecological Footprint Is Sex-Gendered -- IV -- Evaluating Japanese Agricultural Policy from an Eco-socialist Perspective -- Alternative Development: Beyond Ecological Communities and Associations -- Conceptualising the Environmentalism in India: Between Social Justice and Deep Ecology -- Growth Economy and Its Ecological Impacts Upon China: An Eco-socialist Analysis -- Conclusions -- Prospects for Eco-socialism.

This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes of ecological problems than the other Green discourses - such as deep ecology and ecological modernisation theory, and thus has more contributions to make in dealing with the deteriorating ecological crisis throughout the world.

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