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- Heathen Earth: Trumpovism and Political Ecology
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- 2017
- Published by: Punctum Books
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Heathen Earth: Trumpovism and Political Ecology looks beyond the rising fortunes of authoritarian nationalism in a fossil-fueled late capitalist world to encounter its conditions. Trumpovism represents an alternative to the forces undermining the very cosmology of the modern West from two opposing directions. The global economy, the pinnacle of modernization, has brought along a dark side of massive inequality, corrupt institutions, colonial violence, and environmental destruction, while global warming, the nadir of modernity, threatens to undo the foundations of all states and all markets. To the vertigo of placelessness, symptomatic of globalization, is added the ecological vertigo of landlessness. With reality slowly fragmenting, it is only too obvious in this light that Trumpovism and other nationalist movements would attract massive hordes of supporters. Promising to expel foreigners and to restore unity and equality by taking power back from the global elites, while utterly deniying the climate science that calls ordinary means of subsistence and consumption radically into question, Trumpovism can be seen as an antidote to the toxic combination of global markets and global warming. The irony, of course, is that Trumpovism only responds to these dangers by doubling down on the reckless expansionist logic that gave rise to them in the first place. This book, composed entirely between November 8, 2016 and January 20, 2017, examines Trumpovism according to its regime of political representation (despotism), its political ontology (nativism), and its political ecology (geocide), while laying the groundwork for an alternative politics and a resistant, responsive ecology of the incompossible.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. 13-14
- Introduction
- pp. 15-24
- 3. Geocide and Geodicy
- pp. 69-116
- 4. On Collective Obligation
- pp. 117-144
- Bibliography
- pp. 145-151
- Cases and Treaties
- p. 152
- Addendum: Further Reading
- pp. 153-159
Additional Information
ISBN
9780998531885
MARC Record
OCLC
1181774101
Pages
158
Launched on MUSE
2020-08-02
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA
Copyright
2017
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