| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Eco-socialism in an era of capitalist globalisation: Bridging the West and the East -- PART I -- 2. Marxism and ecology: Marx's theory of labour process revisited -- 3. On contemporary eco-socialism -- 4. Socialism and technology: A sectoral overview -- 5. Local community of eco-politics: Its potentials and limitations -- PART II -- 6. On consumerism and the 'logic of capital' -- 7. The de-growth utopia: The incompatibility of de-growth within an internationalised market economy -- 8. Bookchin's social ecology and its contributions to the red-green movement -- 9. How the ecological footprint is sex-gendered: Some implications of eco-feminism for an eco-socialist theory and praxis -- PART III -- 10. Evaluating Japanese agricultural policy from an eco-socialist perspective -- 11. Alternative development: Beyond ecological communities and associations -- 12. Conceptualising the environmentalism in India: Between social justice and deep ecology -- 13. Growth economy and its ecological impacts upon China: An eco-socialist analysis -- CONCLUSIONS. -- 14. Prospects for eco-socialism -- Index -- List of the contributors |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmentalism.
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Social justice.
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Social ecology.
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human ecology.
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Environmentalism
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Social ecology
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Social justice
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Huan, Qingzhi, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9789048137459 |
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9048137454 |
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