Description
Book SynopsisLinks the political critique of sovereign power with ecological concerns
Trade Review"Very occasionally one comes across a book that is genuinely original. Mick Smith's interrogation of ecological sovereignty offers an entirely new perspective on the dangers and opportunities involved in defining our current condition as an ecological ‘crisis.’ As a reassertion of the need for a politics and ethics of the environment, Smith's argument is fresh, very intelligent, and hard to beat." —Andrew Dobson, author of Citizenship and the Environment
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Grain of Sand
1. Awakening
2. The Sovereignty of Good
3. Primitivism: Anarchy, Politics, and the State of Nature
4. Suspended Animation: Radical Ecology, Sovereign Powers, and Saving the (Natural) World
5. Risks, Responsibilities, and Side Effects: Arendt, Beck, and the Politics of Acting into Nature
6. Articulating Ecological Ethics and Politics
7. Against Ecological Sovereignty
Apologue: In Relation to the Lack of Environmental Policy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
