Overview
- Shows that materialisations of epochality, time reckoning, temporality, and coevalness are enmeshed with earth system
- Explores different scenarios arising from the possible ruptures
- Written by an expert in the field
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Keywords
- Temporality
- Episteme of Time
- ecology
- energy extraction
- commodity fetishism
- climate change scenarios
About this book
This book seeks to show that the Anthropocene epoch of the earth system has converged with the global epoch of capitalist history. Planetary warming and climate change are, therefore, unfolding rapidly. This enveloping process is driven forward by the mutual ruptures of a deteriorating earth system and fossil based global capitalism, as a fraught socioecological totality. Overlapping crises of time are the net result. They involve, the recurring, myopic volatility of financialised capitalism, the ecological impossibility of sustaining capitalist growth, the spreading arrhythmias of biotic, animal, bird, insect and marine life and the irremediable psychological stresses of climate change anxiety. The time crises of global capitalism originate from certain disjunctures of time associated with carbon extractivism, carbon emission markets and official climate change projections. The book sets out the counter constructions of time necessary to energise the climate justice movement and advance ecosocialist principles.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wayne Hope is Professor of Communication at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His research has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, Time and Society and Triple C: Capitalism, Communication and Critique. He is joint editor of the Political Economy of Communication journal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Global Futures
Book Subtitle: Times Out of Joint
Authors: Wayne Hope
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-63599-1Due: 21 November 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-63602-8Due: 21 November 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-63600-4Due: 21 November 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 240
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations