William K. Carroll (Canada University of Victoria)

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Refusing Ecocide

From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World

Beschreibung

Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.

Autor

William K. Carroll is Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research explores relationships between corporate power, fossil capitalism and the climate crisis, the political economy and ecology of corporate capitalism, social movements and social change, and critical social theory and method. He has also co-directed 'Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector', a partnership of several universities and civil-society organizations which has examined corporate power and resistance within the global political economy with a focus on fossil capital based in western Canada. He is the author of Expose, Oppose, Propose: Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice (2016) and The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century (2010) and the co-author of Organizing the 1%: How Corporate Power Works (2018). He is also the editor of The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci (2024) and Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy (2021) and the co-editor of A World to Win: Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony (2016).

Produktdetails

• Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781032536422
• ISBN-10: 103253642X
• Artikelnr.: 71746277