Pub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341652
Florence Molk
Abstract The politicization and militarization of migration, currently instituted to prevent the growing movement of people from the periphery, are symptomatic of the unprecedented terminal crisis of historical capitalism. Oblivious to the fact of entering the realm of its dissolution for some time, the capitalist system follows a familiar playbook and calls for, among other things, increased control and militarization of migration. This time however, the reliable and time-tested cyclical reconstitution of the system is inoperable. The crisis is terminal because it finds itself in a deadly predicament of increased economic and environmental costs of appropriation that have chocked capitalization , which in turn exacerbates polarization, corruption, environmental degradation, uneven North/South power relations, and increased displacement of people.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1163/15691497-02201-02000
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Pub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341650
Yuslida John
Abstract This study examines the influence of e-services on students’ satisfaction in higher learning institutions. Although many studies have investigated e-services in education systems, many of them do not associate satisfactory e-services application in administrative activities in ensuring students’ satisfaction. The surveyed data collected from 257 university students was analyzed by the structural equation method ( SEM ). The study found students are satisfied with e-service provision when the systems are simple to use, reliable, efficient, secured, time-saving, and reduce costs in the process of registration, payment of tuition fees, and accessing online library services.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341649
Yusuf Erdem Tunç, Aslan Tolga Öcal
Abstract Technology is adopted regardless of its results; however, technology does not always result in absolute progress. The Luddites, the first movement to resist the effects of technology, made a series of uprisings in the nineteenth century, and even today they represent anxiety against technology. Neo-Luddism, as the successor of Luddism, peacefully opposes technology’s adverse effects with a distinct identity. This study evaluates the role Neo-Luddites can play in countering technology’s consequences. The study examines the Neo-Luddite perspective on technology, which seeks to find its own identity between the optimism of scientism in the technographic world and the pessimism of Luddism, considering the consequences of technology on employment and work. Neo-Luddites should emphasize technology’s political side, establish an identity, and determine their methods. Through these efforts, Neo-Luddites can raise awareness of technology’s adverse effects, build pressure on social policies and legal regulations, and shape society’s perspective of technology.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341640
Eve Darian-Smith
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified a lack of “political will” by national leaders as the main obstacle to mitigating the climate emergency in its 2022 report. However, the report makes no mention that contributing to this political deficiency has been rising antidemocracy over the past two decades, furthered by the support of the powerful fossil fuel industry. This article explores the synergy between antidemocratic leaders embracing anti-climate agendas that prioritize oil and gas companies over the rights of their citizens. I conclude by reflecting on possible responses to this bleak reality from members of the global environmental movement. This involves acknowledging the deep complicity of liberal democratic states in extractive capitalism, while also rethinking democratic principles of social equality and political inclusion to ensure that historically underrepresented communities can engage in emancipatory pro-climate political mobilization.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341646
David Barkin
Who are the peasants/Indigenous people and what is their role in the history and future of Mexico? Questioning the dominant version of the socio-political dynamics, I start with corn, a grain created in Mesoamerica, to develop one of most admired agroecological systems in the world. It contributes to good nutrition and health, (re)shaping social structures and the territory itself. Today’s communities, transformed into a Communitarian Revolutionary Subject provide a model for post-capitalist societies. I apply the framework of Radical Ecological Economics to illustrate and accompany this dynamic.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341637
Marlene Brito-Millán, Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Janin Guzman Morales, Emma Harrison, Jessica Ng, Leslie Quintanilla, Amrah Salomón J, bt werner
We reframe climate crises as Mother Earth’s fevers and revolts against an anthropocentric, patriarchal, and racial colonial order of domination and extraction by undertaking a decolonial feminist, anti-capitalist complexity science, and Indigenous re-examination of how the scientific enterprise engages with climate politics. As the patriarchal state-centric technocracy and imperial mode of living that created the crisis perpetuates itself through “green” climate-disaster capitalism, we challenge “green” techno-scientific solution-driven governance and analyze climate upheavals as a portal for decolonial solidarity with Earth’s revolt – an alignment with the multispecies struggle for the liberation of all human and nonhuman relatives, waters, and lands.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341647
Marcel Llavero-Pasquina
The unequal distribution of environmental goods and pollution burdens is determined by valuation decisions dependent on the values present in the public sphere. Accordingly, corporations and movements of resistance adopt strategies to influence public value systems to prioritize their interests. However, pre-existing asymmetric relationships of power grant corporations a dominant position over the public sphere, eschewing environmental management towards instrumental and transactional modes of valuation. The hegemonic valuation of the environment is thus a product and source of power, and a key element for the reproduction of systems of oppression. This article will discuss the mechanisms used by extractive corporations to neglect alternative value systems, illustrated with examples from the oil giant TotalEnergies.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341636
Carmen G. Gonzalez
Abstract The concept of racial capitalism has been embraced by scholars and activists as a means of exploring the common roots of contemporary social and ecological crises. These include unprecedented environmental degradation, extreme economic inequality, the resurgence of authoritarian ethno-nationalism, increasingly militarized and racialized policing and border control, and the expulsion to the margins of society of growing numbers of humans, including persons who are unemployed, incarcerated, or homeless. This article examines the logic of racial capitalism in order to distinguish between reforms that entrench it and those that facilitate its dismantlement.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1163/15691497-12341643
Z. Yaşın
This article makes two central arguments: i) we can understand the current phase of anti-systemic movements predominantly through the globally expanding forms of resistance centered on environment, food, climate, soil, water, and so on as a collective socio-ecological critique and confrontation of the global capitalist relations of production; and ii) we can conceptually specify the global environmental justice movement through the notion of anti-systemic environmentalism expressing “the second contradiction of capitalism,” i.e., the socio-ecological crisis of the capitalist world system. In making these arguments, it introduces the concept of the socio-ecological question, theoretically grounded in the value theory of nature, in establishing the world-historical relationality among diverse place-based socio-environmental movements.
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