At the Expense of Others?
How the imperial mode of living prevents a good life for all
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I.L.A. Kollektiv (Hg.), At the Expense of Others? (2019), oekom verlag, München, ISBN: 9783962387440
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Beschreibung / Abstract
Today it feels like everybody is talking about the problems and crises of our times: the climate and resource crisis, Greece†™s permanent socio-political crisis or the degrading exploitative practices of the textile industry. Many are aware of the issues, yet little seems to change. Why is this? The concept of the imperial mode of living explains why, in spite of increasing injustices, no long-term alternatives have managed to succeed and a socio-ecological transformation remains out of sight.
This text presents the concept of an imperial mode of living and explains how our current mode of production and living is putting both people and the natural world under strain. We shine a spotlight on various areas of our daily lives, among them food, mobility and digitalisation. We also look at socio-ecological alternatives and approaches to establish a good life for everyone – instead of for just a few.
This text presents the concept of an imperial mode of living and explains how our current mode of production and living is putting both people and the natural world under strain. We shine a spotlight on various areas of our daily lives, among them food, mobility and digitalisation. We also look at socio-ecological alternatives and approaches to establish a good life for everyone – instead of for just a few.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- At the Expense of Others?
- Contents
- Preface by Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen and Barbara Muraca
- Introduction. An everyday catastrophe
- A life at the cost of other people
- The imperial mode of living …
- Our internalised imperial mode of living
- The imperial mode of living as an attempted explanation
- Change in sight?
- Our approach: an overview of At the Expense of Others
- Historical Overview. A short history of the imperial mode of living
- Colonialism: the early stages of the imperial mode of living
- Industrialisation and imperialism
- Fordism: Wealth for everybody?
- Neoliberal globalisation
- History is made by us
- Digitalisation. The laboratory of dreams and of nightmares
- Digital normality
- Digitalisation†™s material costs: the smartphone
- The digital economy: a battle over a land of plenty?
- A socio-ecological transformation in times of digitalisation?
- Care. Who cares?
- Care: more than simply work
- The development of Germany†™s model of care
- The numerous inequalities in care
- Grievances abound – but no change
- Perspectives: a change in care?
- Money and finance. The price of money: the impact of finance on our everyday lives
- Money defines everyday lives
- Systemic debt
- Financial products – the world becomes a commodity
- Is a transformation of the monetary and financial system in sight?
- Education and knowledge. … for they know not what they do? Knowledge, education and the imperial mode of living
- Our education: indoctrination in the imperial mode of living – are schools institutions that perpetuate our imperial habits?
- Education as a means of educating people for an imperial mode of living: science – objective knowledge?
- The exploitative structures in knowledge production
- Human capital strikes back: opportunities to overcome imperial education
- Food and agriculture. Eating like kings
- The road to industrial agriculturei
- Thirst for resources
- Cheap labour, but for whom?
- How the imperial food system shapes our everyday lives
- Ways out of the food crisis
- Good food for all!
- Mobility. Fast, faster, imperial
- Trade and logistics
- Air travel
- Emissions trading and offsets – the problem with market-basedmeasures of environmental protection
- Bogged down: why a mobility transformation is proving so difficult
- “People who don†™t fly aren†™t normal†?
- Wrought in stone and cement: infrastructure
- Who is in the driver†™s seat?
- Smokescreens?
- Solidary forms of mobility
- Three areas of transformation
- Summary and outlook. From the imperial mode of living towards a good life for all
- Our lives: exploiting and being exploited every day
- The spread of the imperial mode of living: the model†™s appeal and its implicit constraints
- Our mode of living: completely normal, deeply entrenched and institutionally anchored
- A good life for all – a tangible utopia
- Strategies towards a socio-ecological transformation
- Cornerstones of a solidary mode of production and living
- What sort of transformation do we want?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- The Project and the authors
- Acknowledgements