1st Edition

Guerrilla Ecologies Green Capital, Nature, and the Politics of Catastrophe

By John Maerhofer Copyright 2024
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy, and strategy that have been gathering force in radical ecological circles. It responds to some of the urgent questions about utilizing militancy as part of the overall effort to foster an ecosocialist society.  Building upon the crucial work of scholars and activists from the 1970s to the present, such as Carolyn... Read more

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

Biography

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.