Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis

Eve Darian-Smith

Published by Stanford University Press 2022

Global Burning

Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis

Eve Darian-Smith

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503631465

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About this book

How extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires and accelerating global climate change.

Author / Editor information

Eve Darian-Smith is Professor and Chair of the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her most recent book is The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies, with Philip McCarty (University of California Press).

Reviews

"The threat of extinction is real and immediate, but Eve Darian-Smith rightfully warns that it cannot be effectively thwarted unless we link the fight for environmental survival with the struggles against global, class, racial, and gender inequalities. A persuasive, solidly documented work."—Walden Bello, co-founder of Focus on the Global South and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award

"This is a book I want my students to read, this is a book my friends and family will read. Simultaneously devastating and hopeful, it repositions the significance of Indigenous ecological knowledge as a key source for worldwide wellbeing."—Jane McMillan, former Canadian Research Chair of Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities

"As this clearly-argued book makes evident: too much of our politics has aided the forces heating our atmosphere and drying out our forests. It's time to stop."—Bill McKibben, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Henry Giroux:
"Global Burning is a brilliant analysis of how a range of anti-democratic trends can be viewed through the lens of catastrophic wildfires across the globe. If you want to understand how to analyze and become involved in a politics of collective resistance aimed at saving both the planet and democracy itself, this is the book to read."

Saskia Sassen:
"In a daring move that combines the familiar and the unexpected, Eve Darian-Smith adds anti-environmentalism as a distinctive dimension to our understanding of the global rise of extreme far-right governments. Anti-environmentalism assumes a whole range of new meanings in this book –including willful denials of what we know will be disastrous effects."

Rob Nixon:
"Global Burning is as powerful as it is succinct. Eve Darian-Smith writes with urgent clarity and conceptual richness as she grapples with some of the most pressing issues of our times. Global Burning is a very teachable book—truly interdisciplinary and international in reach."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1 Fire as Omen: Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Fire as Profit: Global Corporations Rule Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3 Fire as Weapon: Rising Global Authoritarianism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4 Fire as Death: Violent Environmental Racism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
5 Fire as Disruption: Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
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Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 230
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
Keywords: authoritarianism; antidemocracy; anti-environmentalism; climate change; neoliberalism; extractive capitalism; environmental racism; climate science denial; wildfires

eBook

Published: April 19, 2022
ISBN: 9781503631465