Forces of production, climate change and Canadian fossil capitalism / / by Nicolas Graham.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 179
• VerfasserIn: Graham, Nicolas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 179.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)

"In Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism, Nicolas Graham reinterprets the concept of forces of production from an ecological standpoint and in the context of the deepening climate crisis. He argues that ecological knowledge itself, as well as associated developments in renewable energy technology and green infrastructure, represent advancements in productive forces. However, such "green productive forces" are fettered by capitalist relations of production, including the power of carbon capital. In addition to a conceptual and theoretical reinterpretation, case studies focusing on Canadian fossil capitalism provide a concrete-complex analysis of the deepening of fossil-fuelled productive forces and the process of fettering in both renewable energies and in the development and application of ecological knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Forces of production and the climate crisis -- Development of the productive forces and critiques of Marx -- Marxism and forces of production : towards an ecological conception -- Marx and the critique of political economy and ecology -- Ecological Marxism(s) and the productive forces -- Climate change and the networked infrastructures of Canadian fossil capitalism -- Fossil capitalism, corporate strategy and post-carbon futures -- Science, ecology and the greening of carbon-extractive development -- Conclusions: The future of productive forces : towards green socialism.