Tag: neocolonialism

• May 9, 2023

  Ten Demands to Break the Power of Big Tech and Establish Digital Ecosocialism

  

  Today, progressive capitalism is widely seen as the most practical solution to the rise of Big Tech. Yet these same progressives have failed to acknowledge the structural harms of capitalism, US-led tech colonization and the imperative of degrowth. We cannot burn down the walls of our house to keep ourselves warm. The only practical solution…
• August 8, 2022

  The plastic crisis has deep corporate roots: to protect our planet, they need to be exposed

  

  Alice Mah, University of Warwick This spring, I taught a new undergraduate course in environmental sociology. Most of my students took the course because they were curious to see what their desire to live more sustainably had to do with sociology. By the third week – after a deep dive into the troubling connections between…