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Anthropology at the Red-Green Crossroads

ISBN: 978-1-78743-378-6, eISBN: 978-1-78743-377-9

Publication date: 31 October 2017

Abstract

This chapter will examine ideological debates currently taking place in academics. Anthropologists – and all academic workers – are at a crossroads. They must determine what it means to “green the academy” in an era of permanent war, “green capitalism,” and the neoliberal university (Sullivan, 2010). As Victor Wallis makes clear, “no serious observer now denies the severity of the environmental crisis, but it is still not widely recognized as a capitalist crisis, that is, as a crisis arising from and perpetuated by the rule of capital, and hence incapable of resolution within the capitalist framework.”

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank several anthropologists for generously contributing their time to reviewing this chapter and making valuable contributions: Les Sponsel, Barbara Johnston, Colleen Boyd, Peggy Barlett, Carl Maida, Sam Beck, Gene Anderson and Pamela Puntenney. All errors are my own.

Citation

McKenna, B. (2017), "Anthropology at the Red-Green Crossroads", Environmental Criminology (Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice, Vol. 20), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 21-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2051-503020170000020002

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Emerald Publishing Limited