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Capitalism, Time-Space, Environment, and Human Well-Being: Envisioning Ecosocialist Temporality and Spatiality
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Freund, Peter |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Contemporary society has been characterized as “accelerated.” The acceleration or speeding up of everyday life is seen as a central temporal feature of “modernity,” or depending on one’s theoretical bias, of contemporary “turbo” capitalism. The commodification of time and the compression of time and space is a “motor” of acceleration. The macro-social context of global capitalism influences both the level of everyday existence and the quality of life. One important feature of capitalism is its drive to increase the intensity and scale of accumulation, which leads to the acceleration of time in everyday life. This acceleration maximizes both production and consumption in an ecologically unsustainable and individually unhealthy fashion. According to Kovel: “... the speeding up of buying and selling, [leads] to the reduced utilization time of commodities or, to put a more ecologically evocative term to it, the systemic production of waste, that is, the throw-away society.” |
| Starting Page | 112 |
| Ending Page | 121 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/10455752.2010.489684 |
| Volume Number | 21 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.cnsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Capitalism-Time-Space-Environment-and-Human-Well-Being1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2010.489684 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
