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THE IMPERIAL MODE OF LIVING - ULRICH BRAND MARK...

With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living  Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that
capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation
of a Western mode of production and living. The logic of liberal markets since the 19thCentury
and especially since World War II  has been inscribed into everyday practices that are usually
unconsciously reproduced. The authors show that they are a main driver of the ecological crisis
and economic and political instability. The Imperial Mode of Living implies that people's
everyday practices  including individual and societal orientations  as well as identities  rely
heavily on the unlimited appropriation of resources  a disproportionate claim on global and
local ecosystems and sinks  and cheap labour from elsewhere. This availability of commodities
is largely organised through the world market  backed by military force and or the asymmetric
relations of forces as they have been inscribed in international institutions. Moreover  the
Imperial Mode of Living implies asymmetrical social relations along class  gender and race
within the respective countries. Here too  it is driven by the capitalist accumulation
imperative  growth-oriented state policies and status consumption. The concrete production
conditions of commodities are rendered invisible in the places where the commodities are
consumed. The imperialist world order is normalized through the mode of production and living.

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