Natural Catastrophe: Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance

Brian Elliott

Radically revises our conception of climate change as a political problem, not a natural phenomenon.

Brian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is, in fact, a symptom of neoliberal governance. This helps us to understand how, across wealthy liberal democracies, environmental concern has increasingly been framed as a consumer responsibility issue rather than as a matter of structural social-political transformation.

Thinking of a world truly beyond climate change requires us to reimagine the state beyond its current neoliberal configuration. Elliott argues that, in order to achieve this, environmental politics in the west needs to renew the Marxist challenge to the global market's benign production of social utility and construct a new non-apocalyptic politics of nature.

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Natural Catastrophe

Climate Change and Neoliberal Governance

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Introduction
pp 1-21

1 - Political natures
pp 22-51

2 - Nature's ends
pp 52-88

3 - Sustainable development as neoliberal environmentalism
pp 89-123

4 - Environmental politics and place
pp 124-154

5 - The city and the country: towards a new environmentalism
pp 155-188

Bibliography
pp 189-196

Index
pp 197-202

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