Guerrilla Ecologies: Green Capital, Nature, and the Politics of Catastrophe (Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice)

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 Merchant, Ursula Heise, Raj Patel, Joan Martinez Alier, Neil Smith, and Mark Dowie, this book discusses and regenerates key principles of guerrilla ecology. It presents a significant critique of green capital and its impact on the shape of environmental and climate justice movements. From car manufacturers dedicating profits to reforestation, to big oil conglomerates funneling money into universities that are developing techno-fixes which may stave off ecological disaster, green capital has become the mainstay of contemporary cultural, political, and economic reproduction – aiming to fuse profitability and sustainability. The book brings together discussion on key topics in a range of contexts including biopiracy and biocolonialism, indigenous resistance, extractivism, anti-imperialism, ecotage, and eco-militancy. It will attract scholarly readers from diverse spaces in the environmental humanities, environmental and climate justice, radical ecology, and philosophy. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Works Cited 1 Mushroom Dialectics: Guerrilla Ecology in the Anthropocene Rachel Carson and the Politics of Catastrophe Guerrilla Ecology and the Global Revolution The GPCR and 1968 Radicalism Che, Foco Theory, and the Praxis of Guerrillaism Counterrevolution and the Resocialization of the Nature–Labor Dynamic Capital’s Legitimacy Crisis in the Post-Turn Period Counterrevolution and the Reversal of Revolutionary Third Worldism Red Guerrillas: Nature, Capital, and the Standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973 Conclusion Notes Works Cited 2 Deep Ecology and the Green Capitalist Complex Green Capital: A View From the Present The Green Capitalist Complex and the Long Counterrevolution The Green Revolution as Counterrevolution Sustainable Development and the Rise of Institutionalized Environmentalism Fossil Capital and the Green Capitalist Complex Eco-Militancy and Vanguardist Politics in the Post-1968 Era De-politicization and the Cultural Politics of the Post-Turn Left Deep Ecology, Militancy, and the Green Capitalist Complex Indigenous Ecology, Anti-Racism, and the Marxist Critique of Deep Ecology Judi Bari the Politics of Eco-Feminist Militancy Conclusion Notes Works Cited 3 Biopiracy, Environmental Racism, and Anti-Imperialism Ecocide and the Transhistorical Context of Biocolonialism Toward a Value Theory of Biopiracy Nature, Green Capital, and Accumulation By Machinic Subjection Against Biopiratical Hegemony: The Indian Farmer Rebellions, 2020–2021 Biopiracy, Capitalist Imperialism, and Farmer Deprivation in India Ecofascism and the Hindutva Project Land-Commoning and the Ecology of Class Struggle in India Conclusion Notes Works Cited 4 Eco-Militancy in the Global South: The Indian Maoists Against Green Extractivism History and Revolutionary Strategy in the Maoist Movement The Maoist Debate and the Ecology of Global Insurgencies Super-Exploitation, Casteism, and the Politics of Liberation Indigeneity, Class Struggle, and the Critique of Maoist Guerrillaism Against Green Extractivism: Mining Bodies in the Global South Mining, Land Grabs, and Industrial Dams The Biotech Economy and Global Supply Chains Surplus Labor and Organ Trafficking Conclusion Notes Works Cited 5 Emancipation Through Annihilation: Decolonizing the Politics of Ecotage Militarization, Ecocidal War, and Accumulation Strategies in the Post-9/11 Era Accumulation By Repression, Naked Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Violence Toward a Militarized Green Capitalist Complex Antinomies of the GWOT: Iraq, Ecocide, and the Biopolitics of Imperialism Animal/Earth Liberation and the Politics of Ecotage Earth Liberation and the Radicalization of Deep Ecology Mechanistic Science, Super-Exploitation, and Animal Liberation MEND, Oil Politics, and Eco-Militancy in Nigeria AFRICOM, Inter-Imperialism, and the Nigerian Petrostate Decolonizing Eco-Terror: MEND and Guerrilla Ecology in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion Notes Works Cited 6 Against the Entropic State: Guerrilla Ecology in a Green New World The Green Capitalist Complex and the Ecologic of Climate Pacifism Technofixes, Digitization, and Green Magic in the Post-Pandemic Antinomies of the Ecosocialist Paradigm Utopianism and Ecosocialist Platforming Degrowth and the Green Social Metabolism Assuming Control? Intelligent Sabotage and Proletarian Ecology Guerrilla Ecologies and the Entropic State: Toward a Revolutionary Present Radicalizing the Great Refusal: Ecopedagogy and Militancy in a Green New World Red Deals, Radical Healing, and Indigenous Sovereignty Ecopedagogy as the Praxis of Militancy Rooting Guerrilla Ecology in Localized Practices of Militant Opposition Commoning and Eco-Militancy Against the Green Capitalist Complex Nurturing Eco-Communism Against Green Reformism Conclusion Notes Works Cited Conclusion: Toward a Radical Biophilia Works Cited Index