Political Ecology: From Autonomous Sphere to Basic Income

Abstract

Political ecology can be more than a concern with the environment or a fuzzy doctrine, somewhere between the liberal right and the socialist left. To see this, one needs to deploy the political space so as to make room, next to the market and the state, for what Andre Gorz proposed to call the “autonomous sphere,” and one needs to understand, as Gorz eventually did, the close connection between political ecology so conceived and the idea of an unconditional basic income.