Climate, Capitalism and Communities: An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780745339573)

Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change. Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus, examining the injustices and inequalities - as well as the activist responses - that have arisen as a result, and the contradictions between the imperatives of exponential economic growth, and those of environmental sustainability, and society as a whole. Bringing an innovative, ethnographic toolkit to bear on a crisis that is at once global and highly localised, the authors shift attention away from the consequences of climate change, to a focus on the social relations and power structures that continue to prevent effective action.

Author: Astrid B. Stensrud
ISBN-10: 0745339573
ISBN-13: 9780745339573
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2019
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d