Buch, Englisch, 92 Seiten, Format (B × H): 124 mm x 192 mm, Gewicht: 206 g
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Buch, Englisch, 92 Seiten, Format (B × H): 124 mm x 192 mm, Gewicht: 206 g
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5505-5
Verlag: Polity Press
In this short text, consisting of seventy-six talking points, Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz argue that if the ecological movement is to gain ideological consistency and autonomy it must offer a political narrative that recognises, embraces and effectively represents its project in terms of social conflict. Political ecology must accept that it brings along division. It must provide a convincing cartography of the conflicts it generates and, based on this, it must try to define a common horizon of collective action. In order to represent and describe these conflicts, Latour and Schultz propose to reuse the old notions of ‘class’ and ‘class struggle’, albeit infused with a new meaning in line with the ecological concerns of our New Climate Regime. Advancing the idea of a new ecological class, assembled by its collective interests in fighting the logic of production and safeguarding our planet’s conditions of habitability, they ask: how can a proud and self-aware ecological class emerge and take effective action to shape our collective future?
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Table of contents:I: Class struggles and classification struggles
II: A prodigious extension of materialism
III: The great turnaround
IV: A class that's legitimate again
V: A misalignment of affects
VI: A different sense of history in a different cosmos
VII: The ecological class is potentially in the majority
VIII: The indispensable and too often abandoned battle of ideas
IX: Winning power, but what kind?
X: Filling the emptiness of the public space from below