Ashley Dawson is a distinguished professor at the City University of New York. He is the author, most recently, of Environmentalism from Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet (Haymarket Books, 2024) and co-editor of Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common (Common Notions, 2023).
Ashley Dawson
Articles
Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’
Kohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.
Toward a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition
Ashley Dawson thinks about the future through Nicholas Beuret’s “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” and Thea Riofrancos’s “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism.”
Building a Public Energy Commons
Ashley Dawson reviews Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno’s “The Fall and Rise of American Finance” and Brett Christophers’s “The Price Is Wrong.”
