The thirties and forties were the last time in America, she feels, that social movements were strong enough to force radical economic change in a progressive direction. Writing in 2008, Larissa MacFarquhar suggests that the ‘political stories in which Klein places herself all begin in the thirties’. Involved with the Communist Party from the 1930s, like so many others, they left in 1956. Her paternal grandparents were also politically engaged. They were both Jewish Americans who had made their way there through their resistance to US military action in Vietnam. Early lifeīorn in Montreal, Naomi Klein’s father was a paediatrician in a public hospital her mother, a documentary filmmaker. In 2018, she joined Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey as the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies. Her books – No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate – became international bestsellers and have ‘done more to popularise the inseparability of capitalism and climate change than perhaps any other author’ (O’Brien 2019). Naomi Klein (1970- ) is a Canadian journalist, writer and activist known for her critiques of globalization and consumerism, neoliberalism, and the role of capitalism in climate change. this changes everything – capitalism vs.the shock doctrine, neo-liberalism and the rise of disaster capitalism.no logo, corporations and globalization.contents: naomi klein – life and contribution Naomi Klein has probably done more than any other commentator, to raise public understanding of the relationships between globalization, capitalism, neoliberalism and climate change. Naomi Klein presenta en Madrid su nuevo libro “Esto lo cambia todo: el capitalismo contra el clima” 2015.
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