1. Climate Leviathan argues that rapid climate change will transform the world's political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The result will be a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying eventuality that makes the construction of viable, radical alternatives truly imperative." —Ian Angus ...
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  2. goodreads.com

    A book that explores how climate change will transform the global order and the political economy. It argues that the most likely outcome is a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying scenario that calls for radical alternatives.
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  3. journals.sagepub.com

    Climate Leviathan looks sort of like the climate accords, a display of hegemony under the guise of solving climate change. If Leviathan is the future, the inequalities that we have seen produced by climate change thusfar will be endlessly reproduced. Climate change will create an eco-apartheid where the rich protect themselves as the poor die ...
    Author:Raka SenPublished:2019
  4. versobooks.com

    Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform the world's political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The result ...
  5. academic.oup.com

    Climate Leviathan is a Marxist critique of capitalism through the lens of radical climate change activism. In fact, Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright aim to go beyond a mere critique of capitalism, acknowledging that climate change should be regarded as a unique political problem involving the centrality of scientific knowledge, the spatial imbalance of climate change causes and effects, and the ...
    Author:Sara VenturiniPublished:2019
  6. cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com

    Keywords: climate change, Leviathan, political economy, sovereignty, Hegel, Marx, Schmitt I Carl Schmitt once wrote that "state and revolution, leviathan and behemoth, are actually or potentially always present"—that "the leviathan can unfold in unexpected historical situations and move in directions other than those plotted
  7. scholarworks.arcadia.edu

    Climate Leviathan provides an account of the possible trajectories of climate politics, arguing that adaptation to rather than mitigation of global warming is the most likely scenario, a planetary management organised on the basis of new forms of political sovereignty. It is argued that Climate
  8. globalpolicyjournal.com

    Climate Leviathan is a work of political theory that sets out to provide a strategic roadmap for a climate-changed world and assemble "revolutionary strategies for climate justice". As a global social democrat, it is easy to find things to disagree with from the very beginning: its lack of appreciation for the Enlightenment legacy, its ...
  9. penguinrandomhouse.com

    Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform the world's political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The ...
  10. criticaltheoryworkshop.com

    Schmitt's Political Theology, and from there to Hobbes's Leviathan. 7. Mann and Wainwright, Climate Leviathan, 38. 8. Parenti, Tropic of Chaos, 225. See also Scranton, Learning to Die, 14-17, and Dyer, Climate Wars. 9. Mann and Wainwright, Climate Leviathan, 48. 10. Behemoth still pursues an agenda of national sovereignty; so, for it, the ...
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