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El capital en la era del antropoceno / Capital in the Anthropocene (9788466671668)

Una llamada a liberar la imaginación para cambiar el sistema y frenar el cambio climático. El impactante libro que desafía el capitalismo para construir una sociedad más justa y terminar con la emergencia climática, a través del pensamiento ecológico de Karl Marx. Más de 450.000 lectores en Japón. Premio Asian Book Award 2021 al mejor libro del año. La civilización se enfrenta a una grave crisis existencial en la era del Antropoceno, en la que la actividad económica destruye con saña la Tierra y condena a la humanidad a la catástrofe medioambiental. Si no se toman medidas contra el cambio climático, el mundo volverá a un estado de barbarie. No existe un plan B para el planeta Tierra. Para evitar la debacle, es necesario acabar con la obsesión capitalista por la búsqueda ilimitada de beneficios. Pero ¿puede la civilización prosperar renunciando al capitalismo? Por supuesto. Existen soluciones para sortear la crisis, y las pistas para alcanzarlas llevan ciento cincuenta años esperando en...
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Desert Kingdom : How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia (0674049853)



Oil and water, and the science and technology used to harness them, have long been at the heart of political authority in Saudi Arabia. Oil's abundance, and the fantastic wealth it generated, has been a keystone in the political primacy of the kingdom's ruling family. The other bedrock element was water, whose importance was measured by its dearth. Over much of the twentieth century, it was through efforts to control and manage oil and water that the modern state of Saudi Arabia emerged.

The central government's power over water, space, and people expanded steadily over time, enabled by increasing oil revenues. The operations of the Arabian American Oil Company proved critical to expansion and to achieving power over the environment. Political authority in Saudi Arabia took shape through global networks of oil, science, and expertise. And, where oil and water were central to the forging of Saudi authoritarianism, they were also instrumental in shaping politics on the ground. Nowhere was the impact more profound than in the oil-rich Eastern Province, where the politics of oil and water led to a yearning for national belonging and to calls for revolution.

Saudi Arabia is traditionally viewed through the lenses of Islam, tribe, and the economics of oil. Desert Kingdom now provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state. It demonstrates how vital the exploitation of nature and the roles of science and global experts were to the consolidation of political authority in the desert.


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  • Hardback | 320 pages
  • 140 x 210 x 25.91mm | 517.1g
  • Cambridge, Mass, United States
  • English
  • 0674049853
  • 9780674049857
  • 1,049,062


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