A Radical Green Political Theory

by Carter,Alan

• ISBN13: 9780415203098
• ISBN10: 0415203090
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume analyzes authoritarian, reformist, Marxist and anarchist approaches to the environmental problem, exposing the relationships between environmental crises, economic structures and the role of the state.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	vii	(1)
Preface	viii	(7)
Acknowledgements	xv	(2)
Hymn to the New Age	xvii
1 The need for a green political theory	1	(23)
1.1 The extent of the environmental threat	2	(17)
1.2 A brief guide to ecological thinking	19	(5)
2 Three political perspectives	24	(39)
2.1 Eco-authoritarianism	24	(2)
2.2 Eco-reformism	26	(9)
2.3 Marxism as a basis for green political theory	35	(28)
3 Interrelationism, freedom and power	63	(42)
3.1 Individualism or collectivism?	63	(19)
3.2 Freedom	82	(10)
3.3 The dimensions of power	92	(13)
4 The State-Primacy Theory	105	(50)
4.1 Two views of the state	108	(5)
4.2 Re-thinking the state	113	(7)
4.3 The State-Primacy Model	120	(18)
4.4 Fettering and revolutionary change	138	(8)
4.5 The implications for radical political strategy	146	(9)
5 Development or underdevelopment	155	(42)
5.1 Thesis: an elite theory approach	157	(4)
5.2 Antithesis: a class theory approach	161	(8)
5.3 A theoretical synthesis: the state-primacy approach	169	(28)
6 The state and nature	197	(57)
6.1 Radical green values: feminist, socialist and anarchist	197	(4)
6.2 An environmentally hazardous dynamic	201	(29)
6.3 An environmentally benign interrelationship?	230	(21)
6.4 The coherence of green political thought	251	(3)
7 Towards a cooperative autonomy	254	(53)
7.1 Some comments on `anarchism'	255	(7)
7.2 Creating cooperative autonomy	262	(10)
7.3 A green vision	272	(4)
7.4 Two justifications of civil disobedience	276	(10)
7.5 A duty of radical disobedience	286	(21)
Appendix A: Green policies and core green values	307	(8)
Appendix B: Greens and green parties	315	(21)
The rise of green parties	317	(2)
The nature of the green movement	319	(17)
Appendix C: Deep ecology or social ecology?	336	(25)
Deep ecology	336	(16)
Social ecology	352	(9)
Bibliography	361	(34)
Index	395