Guerrilla Ecologies

ISBN-13: 9781032454863 / Twarda / 2024 / 200 str.

John Maerhofer

Opis

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy and strategy. It will attract scholarly readers from diverse spaces in the environmental humanities, environmental and climate justice, radical ecology and philosophy.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Mushroom Dialectics: Guerrilla Ecology in the Anthropocene  2. Deep Ecology and the Green Capitalist Complex  3. Biopiracy, Environmental Racism, and Anti-Imperialism  4. Eco-militancy in the Global South: The Indian Maoists against Green Extractivism  5. Emancipation through Annihilation: Decolonizing the Politics of Ecotage  6. Against the Entropic State: Guerrilla Ecology in a Green New World  Conclusion

O autorze

John Maerhofer, Ph.D. is an activist-scholar based in the greater NYC area. He has taught literature, radical ecological history, and interdisciplinary studies at various colleges and universities, including Hofstra University, the University of Rhode Island, and at several campuses in the CUNY system. He is currently a full-time Teaching Instructor at Rutgers University where he teaches in the Writing Program. His first book, Rethinking the Vanguard, was published in 2009. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the Study of Radicalism, Cultural Logic, South Atlantic Quarterly, International Critical Thought, Socialism & Democracy, LeftEast, Axis of Logic, ROAR Magazine, and Monthly Review Online.