Covid and the politics of nature. (1st June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Benton, Ted
• Is Part Of: Theory & struggle. Volume 122(2021)
• Page Start: 58
• Page End: 67
• Publication Date: 2021-06-01
• Subjects: Covid-19 -- nature -- humans -- crisis -- neoliberalism; Communism -- Periodicals; Socialism -- Periodicals; Working class -- Periodicals; Labor movement -- Periodicals; 335.405
• DOI: 10.3828/ts.2021.7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2057-0988

Abstract

Abstract : It is argued that the decades before 2020 saw a steady rise in public concern about and political recognition of symptoms of a crisis in human social and economic relations to (the rest of) nature. For many, the Covid-19 pandemic has become linked to that, as well as providing, despite the grief and suffering, moments when a different relationship to nature could be experienced. The possibility of a transformative politics towards a just reconciliation between social life and nature may be more visible, but will be ruthlessly resisted by those in power.