The Political Ecology of Austerity: Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment

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Rita Calvário Maria Kaika

The Political Ecology of Austerity

Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment

Rita Calvário, Maria Kaika, Giorgos Velegrakis

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English

Routledge
25 September 2023

Politics & government; Environmental economics; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

The Political Ecology of Austerity explores the environmental dimension of austerity that has thus far escaped academic, policy, and media attention.

Offering a better comprehension of the full socio-environmental impact of austerity measures, the book highlights the importance of considering environmental issues when designing responses to economic crisis in the future. Mobilising detailed case studies from across the world, the volume documents the ways in which austerity impacts global and local ecologies, shapes environmental conflicts and gives rise to new forms and practices of social moblisation and resistance. Bringing together theoretical debates and rigorous case studies, the book proposes ‘the political ecology of austerity’ as an appropriate method of analysis that can inform our understanding of the shift in environmental protection policies and the intensification of growth practices (green or otherwise) that followed the 2008 global economic crisis. The Political Ecology of Austerity discloses austerity to be a globalised set of tools not only for budgetary discipline, but also for socio-environmental discipline that justifies the continuation of capital accumulation at the expense of further global environmental degradation.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of social and political sciences, environmental studies, urban studies, and political ecology.

Edited by: Rita Calvário, Maria Kaika, Giorgos Velegrakis
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032129303
ISBN 10: 1032129301
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rita Calvário is a multidisciplinary social scientist working at the nexus of food politics, agrarian movements, and political ecology with a focus on southern Europe. She holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Maria Kaika is Director of the Centre for Urban Studies and Chair in Urban Regional and Environmental Planning at the University of Amsterdam. She held tenured positions in the Universities of Oxford and Manchester, and was awarded Fellowships and Visiting professorships at the University of London, Paris Est (LATTS), KULeuven, TU Vienna, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Giorgos Velegrakis is a geographer and political ecologist currently working as adjunct faculty at the Philosophy and History of Science Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and at the Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering Department, University of West Attica, Greece. He is teaching Political Ecology, Economic Geography and Science Technology Society (STS) on both graduate and postgraduate levels.