[Pophealth] Just published: Refusing Ecocide

[Dennis Raphael via Pophealth]

From: William Carroll <wcarroll at uvic.ca>


Dear Dennis,

I’m happy to announce that my book Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World has just been published by Routledge. It is available at https://www.routledge.com/Refusing-Ecocide-From-Fossil-Capitalism-to-a-Liveable-World/Carroll/p/book/9781032536415 and at https://www.routledge.com/Refusing-Ecocide-From-Fossil-Capitalism-to-a-Liveable-World/Carroll/p/book/9781032536422 .

I hope the book will be of value to many scholars and activists, and I would appreciate your own support in spreading word of its release, so please feel free to forward this message to interested parties, including librarians!

Refusing Ecocide 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.

Employing three core concepts within historical materialism – capitalist accumulation, imperialism and hegemony – it locates the existential threat of our changing climate in the drive for increasing profit and growth, the domination by advanced capitalist states that strip resources and exploit cheap labour in the Global South, and the consent to the capitalist way of life in the Global North. With attention to the ways in which, powered by fossil fuels, capital has subjected the world to its predatory logic, Refusing Ecocide charts this history and surveys the damage from the Industrial Revolution to today’s deep civilizational crisis, arguing that the market-based and purely technological solutions of ‘Climate Capitalism’ are too little, too late.

Eco-political projects already in motion – the Green New Deal, Degrowth, and Buen Vivir – each contain currents that could converge upon a refusal of ecocide. The challenge lies in pulling these social forces into a coherent hegemonic project with a mass base. I argue for a democratic eco-socialism that breaks decisively from both fossil capitalism and Climate Capitalism. A capacious eco-socialist project directly confronts the trifecta of power that is at the heart of ecological degradation and social injustice. It is our best bet, against lengthening odds, in refusing ecocide.

A call for a multifaceted and multi-scalar shift away from capitalist accumulation, imperialism and class hegemony and instead towards democratic eco-socialism, it will appeal to activists and to scholars across the social sciences with interests in political and social theory, political economy, the environment and sustainability.

bill carroll

William K. Carroll, frsc

Professor of Sociology

University of Victoria

Unceded Coast Salish Territory

3800 Finnerty Road
Victoria BC  V8P 5C2
Canada

wcarroll at uvic.ca<mailto:wcarroll at uvic.ca>

https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/wcarroll/
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