Ecopolitics
eBook - ePub

Ecopolitics

Redefining the Polis

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Ecopolitics

Redefining the Polis

About this book

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.

Against the idea of social contract theories that suggest humans invented the political, Gerard Kuperus argues that we have always been political and that our species came into existence in a world that was already political. By studying the rich social and political lives of other animals, Ecopolitics provides suggestions for how to think and feel differently about ourselves, our relationship to other people, and the places and beings around us. Kuperus suggests we understand ourselves as part of an ecopolitical community consisting of humans and other living beings as well as inanimate objects. By recognizing nature itself as utterly political and seeing ourselves as a part of this larger political unity, we can come to face the real challenges of our times. This means that we are not simply putting ourselves in nature as we are. We are also changing who we are.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Ecopolitics beyond the Human World
  7. Chapter 1 Salmon Politics and Latour’s Gaia
  8. Chapter 2 Crossing Borders: On Rats, Mice, and Other Decolonizing Packs
  9. Chapter 3 Chimpanzee Politics: Towards Empathy
  10. Chapter 4 From the Tidepool to Human Migration: The Biological Roots of Politics
  11. Chapter 5 Human and Other Ants: Decentralized Ecopolitics
  12. Conclusion: Ecopolitics as a Decentralized Basis for a New Future
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. Back Cover