Ashley Dawson

Ashley Dawson is an author, activist, Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and at the CUNY Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dawson specializes in postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and environmental humanities with a particular interest in histories and discourses of migration. Quotes Capitalism is not necessarily more immoral than previous social systems with regard to cruelty to humans and the gratuitous destruction of nature. As a mode of production and a social system, however, capitalism requires people to be destructive of the environment. Three destructive aspects of the capitalist system stand out when we view this system in relation to the extinction crisis: 1) capitalism tends to degrade the conditions of its own production; 2) it must expand ceaselessly in order to survive; 3) it generates a chaotic world system, which in turn intensifies the extinction crisis. Extinction: A Radical History (O/R Books, 2016) p. 41, 978-1944869014 External links Category:Living people Category:University of Virginia alumni Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Academics from South Africa Category:Non-fiction authors from South Africa