[ASA_PEWS] Fwd: Refusing Ecocide, just published

[Christopher Chase-Dunn]

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From: William Carroll <wcarroll at uvic.ca>
Date: Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Subject: Refusing Ecocide, just published
To: chriscd at ucr.edu <chriscd at ucr.edu>


Dear chris,

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

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


-- 
chris chase-dunn   邓宇歌
institute for research on world-systems
university of california-riverside
riverside, ca 92521 USA
mailing address: 2007 mt vernon ave, riverside, ca 92507 usa
Consider using my textbook in your class:
_Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present_ Routledge