Surviving democracy : mitigating climate change in a neoliberalized world / Chien-Yi Lu
- Bib ID:
- 8528748
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lu, Chien-Yi, author
- Description:
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- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
- ©2020
- xxviii, 169 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781138061903 (hardcover)
- 1138061905 (hardcover)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781315162010 (electronic book)
- 9781351667005 (adobe) (electronic book)
- 9781351666985 (electronic book) (mobi)
- 9781351666992 (electronic publication)
- Series:
- Environmental politics (Routledge (Firm))
- Summary:
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"Is democracy, in its neoliberalized form, responsible in part for bringing us to the brink of self-destruction and the policy inertia that is doing away with our chances of survival? Surviving Democracy probes the way democracy became neoliberalized and the role neoliberalized democracy plays in our dealings with-causing, understanding, denying, and mitigating-climate change. Defining neoliberalism as the art of exclusion through inclusion, Chien-Yi Lu treats climate change as collateral damage of the neoliberal order established to ensure upward power and wealth redistribution. Highlighting the role money played in the "free" competition of ideas between Keynes and Hayek, she investigates the resulting global structure, wherein the wealthy and powerful sit above the market and democracy, and the way this structure fundamentally contradicts with honest climate mitigation. Central to the structure is neoliberal elites' leveraging of the fluid relationship between the market and the state. Merging citizen power with consumer and investor powers is therefore imperative to the success of climate action. While expediting the bursting of the carbon bubble is an obvious answer, it is the discussion of the meat bubble that brings the book full circle, linking our survival to neoliberalism, inclusion, and democracy. Surviving Democracy probes the role democracy plays in our dealings with-causing, understanding, denying, and hopefully, mitigating-climate change"--
- Full contents:
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- Is democracy in the way?
- "Free" competition of ideas?
- Political science
- Above market and democracy
- EU, the poster child?
- The SCAMD's judicial branch
- ISDS
- Surviving democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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