A History Of The World In Seven Cheap Things

Author : Raj Patel
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788732154
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things written by Raj Patel and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding-and reclaiming-the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.

Author : Timothy J. LeCain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110713417X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Matter of History written by Timothy J. LeCain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.

Author : Raj Patel
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781429982627
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Value of Nothing written by Raj Patel and published by Picador. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place. Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system. If part one asks how we can rebalance society and limit markets, part two answers by showing how social organizations, in America and around the globe, are finding new ways to describe the world's worth. If we don't want the market to price every aspect of our lives, we need to learn how such organizations have discovered democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common. This short, timely and inspiring book reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics. While we need to rethink our economic model, Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one. If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn't often said who gets to make them. The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to think about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to create a sustainable economy and society.

Author : Jason W. Moore
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781689024
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism in the Web of Life written by Jason W. Moore and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship between capital and ecology Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a “world-ecology” of wealth, power, and nature. Capitalism’s greatest strength—and the source of its problems—is its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor, food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. Rethinking capitalism through the pulsing and renewing dialectic of humanity-in-nature, Moore takes readers on a journey from the rise of capitalism to the modern mosaic of crisis. Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature—rather than capitalism and nature—is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.

Author : John C. Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Wonders written by John C. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider your way of life and the effect that you have on the planet, and ask yourself the following question: If everyone on Earth lived like you, what would the impact be on the natural world and its finite resources? Probably catastrophic. According to John Ryan, it's time for us to reexamine our actions and reconsider our options. InSeven Wonders,Ryan informs readers of the extraordinary benefits of such familiar things as the bicycle, the ceiling fan, the clothesline, the condom, Thai food, the public library, and the ladybug - and how using them can help solve critical global problems such as air pollution, ozone layer depletion, and toxic pesticide runoff. Our high-consumption "American way of life" creates enormous ecosystem damage. John Ryan artfully demonstrates how we can adopt relatively easy ways to lessen this damage and, at the same time, improve the health of our shared natural environment and of our families.

Author : Max Ajl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786807069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A People's Green New Deal written by Max Ajl and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. Evocative of the far-reaching ambitions of its namesake, it has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But its new ubiquity brings ambiguity: what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal? In this concise and urgent book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their proponents, ideological underpinnings and limitations, he goes on to sketch out a radical alternative: a 'People's Green New Deal' committed to degrowth, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. Ajl diagnoses the roots of the current socio-ecological crisis as emerging from a world-system dominated by the logics of capitalism and imperialism. Resolving this crisis, he argues, requires nothing less than an infrastructural and agricultural transformation in the Global North, and the industrial convergence between North and South. As the climate crisis deepens and the literature on the subject grows, A People's Green New Deal contributes a distinctive perspective to the debate.

Author : Max Haiven
Publisher : Vagabonds
ISBN 13 : 9780745345826
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palm Oil written by Max Haiven and published by Vagabonds. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating story of how palm oil has shaped our world

Author : Raj;Moore Patel
Publisher : Black Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781760640460
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the World in Seven Cheap Things written by Raj;Moore Patel and published by Black Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives. These are the seven things that have made our world and will continue to shape its future. By making these things cheap, modern commerce has controlled, transformed, and devastated the Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate how throughout history, crises have always provided fresh opportunities to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis for all these seven cheap things, innovative systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding-and reclaiming-the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.

Author : Joerg Rieger
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506431585
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology in the Capitalocene written by Joerg Rieger and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joerg Rieger takes a new look at the things that cause the growing destruction and death of people and the planet. And yet, understanding is only a start. Solidarity and the willingness to work at the intersections--the triad of gender, race, class, and more--must mark the work of theology.

Author : Taylor, Peter
Publisher : Bristol University Press
ISBN 13 : 152921047X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities Demanding the Earth written by Taylor, Peter and published by Bristol University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the human input into climate change. The demands we are making on nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption and pose the challenge of urban stewardship to tackle the crisis. Their new way of thinking re-orients possibilities for environmental policy and calls for us to reinvent our cities as spaces for activism.