Refusing Ecocide

William K. Carroll is Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research explores relationships between corporate power, fossil capitalism and the climate crisis, the political economy and ecology of corporate capitalism, social movements and social change, and critical social theory and method. He has also co-directed ‘Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector’, an SSHRC-funded partnership of several universities and civil-society organizations which has examined corporate power and resistance within the global political economy with a focus on fossil capital based in western Canada. He is the author of Expose, Oppose, Propose: Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice (2016) and The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century (2010) and the co-author of Organizing the 1%: How Corporate Power Works (2018). He is also the editor of The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci (2024) and Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy (2021) and the co-editor of A World to Win: Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony (2016).

Introduction Part I: Fossil Capitalism and Climate Crisis 1. Fossil Capitalism and the Trifecta of Power 2. Fordism, Consumer Capitalism and the Great Acceleration 3. Climate Crisis and the Quickening of Fossil Capitalism’s Death Drive Part II: Toward a Liveable World 4. The False Solutions of Climate Capitalism 5. Alternatives to Fossil Capitalism? 6. Toward Eco-socialism