Non-fiction
Living Well at Others' Expense

Stephan Lessenich

English

Living Well at Others' Expense
Stephan Lessenich
Cambridge, Polity 2019
140 pages

German

Neben uns die Sintflut
Stephan Lessenich
Berlin, Carl Hanser Verlag 2016
224 pages

In this sociological work, Stephan Lessenich deals with the economically inter-dependent relationships of a globalised world. In the North-South conflict, 'external societies' have always lived at the expense of others. In the meantime the suffering of the so-called 'Third World' has also directly reached the 'First World', as can be seen, for example, in the migration patterns of many people caused by environmental destruction. 

Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut

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