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  • Dialektika planetarne krize [Elektronski vir] : podnebje, razred in kapital = Dialectics of the planetary crisis : climate, class, and capital : magistrsko delo
    Dagalev, Deni
    A multitude of planetary crises have put enormous strain on the reproduction of life on Earth in recent decades. Employment, debt, finance, war, food, energy, climate, biodiversity, health, education ... – these are but a few acute issues that are shaping and reshaping our ways of being, knowing and doing in twenty-first century everyday life. To comprehend the unfolding of these seemingly disparate crises, the MA thesis looks back at the long and rich history of epoch making class-imperial and geo-managerial projects and regimes of capital accumulation in the successive centuries after 1450. Throughout this thesis, capitalism is viewed not as an economic or social system, but as a world-ecology that merges power, profit and nature in a dialectical unity. Through this approach, I challenge the Cartesian symbolic divide between Society and Nature, which in turn perpetuates the material divide between humans and the rest of nature. As a consequence, Society and Nature are established as two distinctive historical units that develop independently of one another, with the former developing upon, rather than through the latter. This begs the question of whether capitalism and its inner workings of colonialism, imperialism, racial formations, patriarchy, commodification are exclusively social processes with environmental consequences, or whether they are inextricably socio-ecological, at once producers and products of the messy and unruly class struggle in the web of life?
    Type of material - master's thesis ; adult, serious
    Publication and manufacture - Ljubljana : [D. Dagalev], 2023
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 181729795

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