Essays about: "Ecological Marxism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Ecological Marxism.

1. 1. Resolution Without Revolution: Green Capitalism, Ecological Management, and the Carbon Dioxide Removal Industry in the United States

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi; Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Jacob Daniel Ferrell; [2023]
   Keywords : carbon dioxide removal; negative emissions; United States; ecological Marxism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is quickly moving from mere imagination to material reality. As I write, billions of dollars are flowing into this nascent industry from government, philanthropy, and venture capital; this thesis thus attempts to grasp history as it flies. READ MORE

3. 2. Climate on the Horizon?: Gothenburg dockworkers’ framings of their political horizon regarding climate change

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Jakob Gometz; [2022-01-18]
   Keywords : Labour Environmentalism; Critical Materialism; Frame Analysis; Critical Theory; Ecological Marxism; Environmental Labour Studies;

   Abstract : The climate is rapidly warming, and this has triggered a global trend in mobilisation against climate change. Due to workers’ unique position within the capitalist mode of production the interest in the potential for labour mobilisation against climate change is growing. READ MORE

4. 3. Extraction for the Green Transition: An Eco-Marxist actor analysis of lithium governance in Bolivia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Julian Dannefjord; [2021]
   Keywords : Bolivia; lithium; extractivism; climate change; energy transition; actor analysis; Eco-Marxism; John Bellamy Foster; metabolic rift; ecological imperialism; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Bolivia holds among the biggest reserves of lithium in the world. Lithium-ion batteries are essential components in electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines, and are therefore crucial for a global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Meanwhile, the extraction process of lithium can cause large environmental damage. READ MORE

5. 4. Trails and roads: from the Paramo to the city : exploring the tensions between environmental conservation and economic growth. A case study in Sumapaz, Colombia.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Juanita Alvarez Jaramillo; [2020]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The need to preserve ecosystems to enable the reproduction of a global market-based economy has led conservationist measures that are in contradiction with a model of Development heavily based on the connectivity to broader markets. The case of protected Colombian Paramo in Sumapaz explores trails’ as a conduit to understand social mechanisms for space-time appropriations and how are they contested. READ MORE

6. 5. Disparate Lives, Fractured Mineral: Toxic Displacement in the Global Economy of Asbestos

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Nicholas Surber; [2018]
   Keywords : Eternit; economy of asbestos; displacement; abstract space; socio-natural transformation; slow violence; toxicity; environmental public health; ecological Marxism; post-humanism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The established scientific reality of asbestos is that (a) asbestos is toxic at a minuscule dose, and (b) exposure should be avoided whenever possible, with the evidence expanding almost exponentially over the past century. The purpose of this research is to explore the historical and global socio-natural entanglements of the economy of asbestos and the resulting mechanisms at play to occlude and marginalise the toxicity and emphasise profitability. READ MORE