Nature is a Battlefield : Towards a Political Ecology (Paperback)

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Environmental racism
A philosophical event
The colour of ecology
Hurricane Katrina as a i¿½metaphori¿½ for environmental racism
The spatiality of racism
Lead poisoning and class struggle
Postcolonialism and environmental crisis: the conflict in Darfur
Ecological inequalities: A Marxist approach
The archaeology of environmental racism
Race and reforestation
Purifying naturei¿½
i¿½ and naturalising race
Exporting the environment
The coming political ecology
Conclusion

Chapter Two: Financialising nature: Insuring climatic risks
Financial markets i¿½plugged intoi¿½ nature
Principles of insurance
New risks?
The ontology of catastrophe
Risk and postmodernity
Cat (catastrophe) bonds
Nature as i¿½real abstractioni¿½
Carbon markets and unequal development
Constructing profitable markets
A i¿½multi-cati¿½ bond in Mexico
Ecological crisis and the fiscal crisis of the state
A derivative nature
Nature as accumulation strategy
Conclusion

Chapter Three: Green wars, or the militarisation of ecology
A doctrine emerges
A benevolent dictatorship
Chaos specialists
Terrorism and climate change
The new military ecology
Conservation and counter-insurgency
Econationalism
Agent Orange
From the Cold War to green wars
The end of conventional wars?
Double movement
Climate refugees
Nuclear deterrence and ecological crisis
War and biofuels
The oceans destabilised
The scramble for the Arctic
The North Pole and globalisation
Commodifying the thaw
The speed of the circulation of capital
Conclusion

Conclusion: Game over?

Notes