The Routledge Handbook on Ecosocialism

1. An Introduction to Ecosocialism

Leigh Brownhill, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, Terran Giacomini, Ana Isla, Michael Löwy, and Terisa E. Turner

Part 1: Historical and theoretical groundings

2. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Theoretical Introduction
James O’Connor 

3. The Ecofeminist Ground of Ecosocialism
Joel Kovel

4. Ethnicized, Gendered Class Analysis: A Theoretical-Methodological Framework for Analyzing Ecofeminist, Ecosocialist Praxis
Terisa E. Turner

5. Ecofeminist Ecosocialism
Mary Mellor

6. An Ecocentric Epistemology for Ecosocialism
Ariel Salleh

7. ‘Greening:’ The Highest Stage of Extractivism in Latin America
Ana Isla

8. Romanticism, the Critique of Progress and Ecosocialism
Renán Vega Cantor

9. Dialectical Ecology
John Clark

Part 2: Extending Marxist Roots

10. Ecological and Economic Modalities of Time and Space
Elmar Altvater

11. The Ecology of Misogyny
Leigh Brownhill

12. From Marx to Ecosocialism
Michael Löwy

13. Marx’s Ecology and Metabolic Analysis
Brett Clark and John Bellamy Foster

14. The Legacy of Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism in the 21^st Century
Kohei Saito

15. Ecosocialist Underpinnings of Ecological Civilisation
Arran Gare

Part 3: Movements, Prefiguration and Frameworks

16. Tragic Milestones of the Niger Delta
Nnimmo Bassey

17. Nakedness and Power [with an Introduction by the authors]
Seth Tobocman, Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner

18. Ecosocialist Activism and Movements in South Africa
Vishwas Satgar and Jacklyn Cock

19. Agroecology as Ecofeminist Activism
Terran Giacomini

20. “You Can Blow Your Brains Out and You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”: Jazz, Collectivism, and the Struggle for Ecological Commons in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes
Benjamin Barson

21. Ecosocialism and Workplace Democracy
José Luis Haro García

22. People’s Resistance against Geoengineering
Silvia Ribeiro

23. Green Reforms and Individual Interventions in the Green New Deal Transition to Ecosocialism
Pritam Singh

24. Extinction Rebellion: Crisis, Inaction, and the Question of Civil Disobedience as Ecosocialist Strategy
Samuel Alexander and Peter D. Burdon

Part 4: Power Struggles on Institutional Terrains

25. Conceptualizing Democratic Ecosocialism: A Personal Journey
Hans A. Baer

26. Moneyfree Economies and Ecosocialism
Anitra Nelson

27. Ecosocialist Economics
Pat Devine

28. Solar Communism, Thermodynamics of Ecosocialism/Communism
David Schwartzman

29. Technological Development for Ecosocialism
Victor Wallis

30. Agroecology and Ecosocialist Policies in Venezuela
Miguel Angel Núñez

31. Ecosocialism and the Green New Deal
Natasha Heenan

32. Bioenergy and Ecosocialism
Nadia Singh

33. The Environmental Benefits of Socialist States
Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro

34. Ecosocialism and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
Huan Qingzhi

35. The Fourth International’s Contribution to Ecosocialism
Michael Löwy and Daniel Tanuroa

Biography

Leigh Brownhill is an ecofeminist scholar and writer, anti-racist abolitionist, long-time decolonial researcher, and community activist. She is Associate Editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism, the international, multi-disciplinary journal of ecosocialism. She teaches sociology at Athabasca University, Canada.

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Professor of Geography at SUNY New Paltz, and Chief Editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism. His research areas include socialist histories, soil contamination processes, and urban food production. His latest books are on socialist states and environment and on urban agriculture and ecosocialism.

Terran Giacomini is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Her community-engaged scholarship explores the gendered and ethnicized class relations that support life-affirming resistance and alternatives to capitalism. She is an associate member of Canada’s National Farmers Union, and a founding member of the Via Campesina movement for food sovereignty and agroecology.

Ana Isla is Professor Emerita at Brock University in Canada. She is conducting research on subsistence economies in the Peruvian rainforest and extractivism in Latin America.

Michael Löwy completed two PhDs at the Sorbonne, in 1964 and 1974. He is recipient of the CNRS Silver Medal as the best French social scientist (1994) and the European Walter Benjamin Prize (2020). He co-authored, with Joel Kovel and Ian Angus, the Declaration of Belem (2009) at the Belem Social World Forum. He is a member of the steering committee of the Global Ecosocialist Network.

Terisa E. Turner is a revolutionary, ecofeminist Marxist trained and mentored by and in the tradition of CLR James. She worked at the UN and at nine universities. She writes on petroleum, gender, social movements, and commoning transitions.

“The Handbook on Ecosocialism is a much-needed anthology from among the most influential figures in the ecosocialist movements. Buttressed by powerful Marxist ecofeminist contributions, the Handbook is bound to become an essential resource for scholars and organisers keen on overcoming racial capitalist and patriarchal relations and to strengthen the process of commoning.”

Professor Emerita Silvia Federici, Hofstra University, USA