The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political
landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly
cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and
conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most
people.
What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by
some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the
only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a
common future with the rest of the world. Hence their flight offshore
and their massive investment in climate change denial.
The Left has been slow to turn its attention to this new situation. It
is still organized along an axis that goes from investment in local
values to the hope of globalization and just at the time when,
everywhere, people dissatisfied with the ideal of modernity are
turning back to the protection of national or even ethnic borders.
This is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as
what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national.
Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking
and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is
our biggest challenge. Bringing us down to earth is the task of
politics today.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781509530595
Publisert
2018
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Polity
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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