Paul Kennedy: Vampire Capitalism

Cover: 9781349716074 | Vampire Capitalism | Fractured Societies and Alternative Futures

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Beschreibung

This book argues that in recent decades an unrestrained vampire-capitalism has emerged, disengaged from the needs of citizens and workers, leading to a deepening of social class, generational, gender, educational and ethnic divisions. The author explores how our cultural obsession with self-realization undermines our capacity for collective action and ability to confront threats such as climate change and the impact of the rapid advance of technology on labour. Drawing on sociology and political economy as well as worldwide case studies, the chapters interrogate how we arrived at these dilemmas and how we might escape them through establishing alternative social economies.

Vampire Capitalism will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, social theory, globalisation studies, development studies, political economy, geography, politics and social policy.

Über den Autor

Paul Kennedy is Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has taught and written widely on African and Third World studies, comparative modernization, green businesses, globalization and cosmopolitan professionals. He is the co-author of
Global Sociology
(Palgrave Macmillan) and took a leading role in founding the Global Studies Association.

Zusammenfassung

Uses real case studies in a variety of areas such as environment, economy and globalization
Presents a highly sophisticated analysis which moves forward the debate of global crisis/late modernity

Offers solutions for the future

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Capitalist-modernity in question.- 2. The Rise of Vampire Capitalism (and not a slayer in sight).- 3.The Roots of Vampire Capitalism.- 4. Living with twenty-first century capitalism.- 5. The Juggernaut of science and technology: friend or foe?.- 6. Individualization and the cultures of capitalism.- 7. Global capitalism and the biosphere: Our future in jeopardy.- 8. Does Capitalism have a future.- 9. Alternatives: Exploring Possibilities.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xiii 355 S.
ISBN-13:	9781349716074
ISBN-10:	1349716073
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kennedy, Paul
Auflage:	1st ed. 2017
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK
Maße:	210 x 148 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul Kennedy
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.06.2019
Gewicht:	0,481 kg