'A timely and urgent analysis which seeks to comprehend our ecological plight through an elucidation of monopoly capital'- Gareth Dale,Reader in Political Economy,Brunel University
Capital is pushing into motion ever larger global material flows.In doing so it has come to depend on massive expenditures of energy,putting to work fossil fuels and the machines they animate to transform the world,accumulate power and grow the economy. The ecological relations and crises of today's societies are driven by the processes of extraction of the elements that come together as a throughput of material and energy flows controlled by capital and shaped by its imperative of valorization.
In ASocial Ecology of Capital,éric Pineault proposes anoriginalmodel of the fossil social metabolism that has sustained the growth of advanced capitalism in the last century.
Drawing on ecological economics and critical political economy,the book analyses how the social structures of accumulation,production,consumption and waste determine and regulate the material flow and the accumulation of material artifacts. Showing howsocial relations shape the ecology of capital,the book highlights the contradictions humanity now faces.
Publisher: Pluto PressISBN: 9780745343778Number of pages: 176Weight: 1 gDimensions: 216 x 140 x 12 mm
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'A remarkably insightful analysis of the complex interface between capital and nature. This is indispensable reading for scholars,students and activists'
'A Social Ecology of Capital is essential reading for all interested in ecological crises,limits to growth,and alternatives. Its materialist-feminist analysis of growth as biophysical expansion and accumulation presents a much-needed foundation for understanding our current predicament'
'In systematically illuminating the material flows and constraints of fossil-fuelled capitalism,Pineault has compiled a useful guide to social metabolism for Marxists. He shows that,to understand our global ecological predicament,we must go beyond Marx in establishing a materialist social science'
'A timely and urgent analysis which seeks to comprehend our ecological plight through an elucidation of monopoly capital'
'Social ecology is further developed by éric Pineault with this fascinating theoretical and empirical study. He shows how capital as a social relation exercises its domination - and how contested this is. A must read for scholars,students,activists,progressive politicians and the interested public!'
'Eric Pineault's book is a true Capital in the 21st Century. One where ecology matters'
'Applying biophysical accounting methods from social ecology,Pineault analyses the metabolism ofcapitalism. It provides important lessons for scholars and activists about the root causes of ongoingenvironmental crises and the need for an encompassing social ecological transformation'
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