Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix
A more-than-human assessment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3334216 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N J Fox (0000-0003-2037-2664, University of Huddersfield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1115-1134 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380261221121232 |
| OpenAlex | W4297183747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 70 |
Green capitalism is an approach that attempts to use free-market mechanisms to mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Its advocates argue that the market supplies the best means to innovate technological solutions that can compete with existing polluting practices. Using a relational, post-anthropocentric and materialist ontology, this article analyses the micropolitics underpinning the capitalist market economy in terms of production and market assemblages and the affective forces within them. This novel approach reveals previously overlooked more-than-human affects within these capitalist assemblages. These affects generate the unintended and inevitable consequences of a capitalist economic framework: growth, waste and inequalities. Based on this micropolitical assessment, the article uses the example of the electric car to conclude that green capitalism is inadequate to address the climate crisis, and offers an alternative approach
Anthropocene · Anthropocentrism · Capitalism · Climate change · Economic system · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Materialism · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Sociology · Underpinning · Unintended consequences · Ecology · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
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| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |