Radical Environmental Resistance: Love, Rage and Hope in an Era of Climate and Biodiversity Breakdown (Emerald Points) - Hardcover

Alberro, Heather

 
9781837973798: Radical Environmental Resistance: Love, Rage and Hope in an Era of Climate and Biodiversity Breakdown (Emerald Points)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1837973792 ISBN 13: 9781837973798
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023

Synopsis

Acknowledging mounting socioeconomic inequality, a climate system in disarray, and a collapse of biodiversity that now threatens the very viability of life on earth for both present and future generations, Radical Environmental Resistance demystifies activists’ ecological worldviews, their tactical motivations, and their diagnostic and prognostic framings.

Providing a succinct overview of key aspects of contemporary radical environmental movements, Heather Alberro offers a brief yet in-depth look into the poorly understood aims and motivations of radical environmental activists as increasingly salient actors within global environmental politics. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with activists from a range of environmental groups as well as analysis of activist websites and print materials, chapters feature a critical discussion of the ethics and salience of radical tactics and of attempts by state, media and corporate actors to criminalize and delegitimize environmental activism. Will mainstream policy and government approaches to addressing climate and biodiversity crises amount to too little, too late? At what point, if ever, do desperate times legitimize desperate actions?

Exploring the role of direct action within times of severe social and ecological upheaval, Radical Environmental Resistance evokes the rich, diverse world that radical environmental activists and indigenous environmental protectors are fighting for.

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About the Author

Heather Alberro is Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her background and interests span a range of disciplines including green utopianism, critical posthuman theory, environmental ethics, literary ecocriticism and radical environmental politics.

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1837973792
ISBN 13 
9781837973798
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
120