Eco-socialism as Politics Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation /

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 o...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Huan, Qingzhi. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3745-9
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Eco-socialism in an era of capitalist globalisation: Bridging the West and the East
  • PART I
  • 2. Marxism and ecology: Marxs 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. Bookchins 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.