Global Environmental Politics and the Imperial Mode of Living: Articulations of State-Capital Relations in the Multiple Crisis
Global Environmental Politics and the Imperial Mode of Living: Articulations of State-Capital Relations in the Multiple Crisis
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DOI：
10.1080/14747731.2012.699928
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Wissen, Markus
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作者：
Brand, Ulrich;Wissen, Markus
本文引入了由资本和资本主义国家维持的“帝王生活方式”的概念，以理解资源和能源密集型日常做法的持续性及其社会生态后果。帝国的生活模式主要是基于对资源和劳动力的无限制占用，以及对全球水槽的不成比例的索取权。在多重危机的星座中，它有助于维护全球北方的社会稳定，并在全球南方的许多社会中提供了一种霸权取向。与此同时，它使全球环境政治陷入严重危机，助长了关于自然资源和沉没的(新)帝国主义战略。从这个意义上说，帝国的生活方式使危机变得更加尖锐，并能够在社会和空间有限的维度上得到处理。因此，这一概念有助于理解新自由主义-帝国星座的同时存在和危机，并确定反霸权斗争的起点。
The article introduces the concept of the 'imperial mode of living', which is sustained by capital and the capitalist state, in order to understand the persistence of resource-and energy-intensive everyday practices and their socio-ecological consequences. The imperial mode of living is principally based on an unlimited appropriation of resources and labour power and on a disproportionate claim to global sinks. In the constellation of the 'multiple crises', it contributes to safeguarding social stability in the global North and provides a hegemonic orientation in many societies of the global South. At the same time it has plunged global environmental politics into a severe crisis, fostering (neo-)imperialist strategies with respect to natural resources and sinks. In this sense, the imperial mode of living makes the crisis both more acute and able to be processed in a socially and spatially limited dimension. The concept thus helps to understand the simultaneous persistence and crisis of the neoliberal-imperial constellation and to identify starting points for counter-hegemonic struggles.