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Introduction: Configuring the Green New Deal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Anna Sturman  and
Natasha Heenan
Anna Sturman
Affiliation:
The University of Sydney, Australia
Natasha Heenan*
Affiliation:
The University of Sydney, Australia
*
Natasha Heenan, Department of Political Economy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Email: natasha.heenan@sydney.edu.au
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Abstract

We introduce a themed collection of articles on approaches to configuring a Green New Deal as a response to the current capitalist crisis marked by ecological breakdown, economic stagnation and growing inequality. The Green New Deal is a contested political project, with pro-market, right-wing nationalist, Keynesian, democratic socialist and ecosocialist variants. Critiques of the Green New Deal include pragmatic queries as the feasibility of implementation, and theoretical challenges from the right regarding reliance on state forms and from the left regarding efforts to ameliorate capitalism. They also include concerns about technocratic bias and complaints about lack of meaningful consultation with Indigenous peoples on proposals for large-scale shifts in land use. Debates over the ideological orientation, political strategy and implementation of the Green New Deal must now account for the economic and employment impacts of COVID.

Keywords

Q43Q54Q56Q58Employmentenergy policyenvironmentGreen New DealIndigenous land rightsinequalitysustainability
Type
Research Article
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 32 , Issue 2: Configuring the Green New Deal , June 2021 , pp. 149 - 154
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2021

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