Out of the wreckage : a new politics for an age of crisis /
By: Monbiot, George [author.].
Publisher: London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017Description: 214 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781786632883; 9781786632883:; 1786632888.Subject(s): Political sociology | Political participation | Economics -- Sociological aspects | Social movements -- Political aspects | Direct democracy | Political science | Political participation. -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 306.2 MONItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 306.2 MON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0062617 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A story of our times -- A captive audience -- Don't look back -- Alienation -- Belonging -- Our economy -- Framing the economy -- Our politics -- Making it happen.
What does the good life - and the good society - look like in the 21st century? Mainstream politics is stuck, torn between the redundant doctrines of Keynesianism and neoliberalism. Neither have much to offer a world facing environmental collapse, civic breakdown and a gathering crisis of permanent unemployment. This dismal, managerial politics fails to articulate a vision of a better world, driving people towards the anti-politics offered by Donald Trump and others. What is urgently needed is a positive, propositional vision that can re-engage people in politics. Here, Monbiot seeks out the best new ideas and streamlines them into a coherent, inspiring story that describes the present and shows the way to a better future. He explains how communities can be rebuilt, how economies can be recharged without destroying the living planet and how politics can once more inspire and thrill.