A Radical Green Political Theory

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ISBN: 9780415203098 | 0415203090
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/21/1999

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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.

List of figures and tables

vii

(1)

Preface

viii

(7)

Acknowledgements

(2)

Hymn to the New Age

xvii

1 The need for a green political theory

(23)

1.1 The extent of the environmental threat

(17)

1.2 A brief guide to ecological thinking

(5)

2 Three political perspectives

(39)

2.1 Eco-authoritarianism

(2)

2.2 Eco-reformism

(9)

2.3 Marxism as a basis for green political theory

(28)

3 Interrelationism, freedom and power

(42)

3.1 Individualism or collectivism?

(19)

3.2 Freedom

(10)

3.3 The dimensions of power

(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

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