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Ecopolitics : redefining the Polis / Gerard Kuperus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuperus, Gerard, author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics.
- SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--Social aspects.
- Environmental policy.
- Green movement.
- Political ecology.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Ecopolitics beyond the Human World
- The Beginning of Politics
- Human and Non-human Others
- Situating Ecopolitics
- Redefining Home
- The Common Good as Shared Good
- What Does Ecopolitics Want?
- Learning from Non-human Politics
- Summary of Chapters
- Chapter 1 Salmon Politics and Latour's Gaia
- Salmon Being, Being Salmon
- Group Being
- Latour's Gaia
- Other Than Human Politics
- Salmon in Indigenous Cultures
- Salmon in the Anthropocene
- Indigenous Knowledge and Practice
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2 Crossing Borders: On Rats, Mice, and Other Decolonizing Packs
- Warfare I
- Becoming Rats
- Of Mice and Men: Becoming Mice
- Thinking Like a Rat
- Decolonization
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Chimpanzee Politics: Towards Empathy
- Chimpanzee Politics
- Empathy
- Personalities and Self: Confucian Reflections
- Identity Politics
- Conclusion: We Have Never Been Nonpolitical
- Chapter 4 From the Tidepool to Human Migration: The Biological Roots of Politics
- The Sea of Cortez: Deep Ecology in the Tidepools
- Human Struggles and Cooperation: The Phalanx
- On the Move
- The Tidepool Society
- Chapter 5 Human and Other Ants: Decentralized Ecopolitics
- A Scientific Ethics: Kropotkin
- Anarchistic Ants
- Human Ants
- Conclusion: Ecopolitics as a Decentralized Basis for a New Future
- From Lifeboat Ethics to Cruise Ship Decadence
- Towards Sympathy
- New Discourses, New Stories, New Ways of Being
- Ecopolitics
- Postscript I: Program for a Borderless Ecopolitics
- Postscript II: A Final Story
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kuperus, Gerard Technical Communication for Environmental Action
- ISBN:
- 9781438494272
- 1438494270
- OCLC:
- 1395184280
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