Undoing Human Supremacy

Anarchist Political Ecology in the Face of Anthroparchy

Simon Springer, Jennifer Mateer, Martin Locret-Collet, Maleea Acker

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781538159132
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The Earth is in crisis. We know this. We have known this for a long time. In the throes of the unfolding nightmare we call "capitalism" it is not hard to see and hear the violence that is being enacted against the planet. If we are to move beyond the idea that humanity is tasked with expressing our dominion over nature and towards a renewed integral understanding of humanity as firmly located within the biosphere, as an anarchist political ecology demands, then we have to start interrogating the privileges, hierarchies, and human-centric frames that guide our ways of knowing and being in the world.
This volume centers around the idea that anarchism, as a conceptual framework, encourages us to contend with the multiple lines of difference, the various iterations of privilege, and the manifold set of archies that undergird our understandings of the world, and crucially, our place within it.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Introduction: The Political Ecology of Human Supremacy
• 1 Animals in Anarchist Political Ecology
• 2 Political Ecology and Animal Liberation: Emancipating Non-Humans from a Leftist Anti-Capitalist Perspective
• 3 Anarchism, Feminism, and Veganism: A Convergence of Struggles
• 4 Vegan-Washing Genocide: Animal Advocacy on Stolen Land and Re-imagining Animal Liberation as Anti-colonial Praxis
• 5 Whose Environment? Epistemic-Political Disputes over a Concept and Its Uses
• 6 A Future Eco-Anarchic Society and the Means to Achieving It
• 7 Beyond the Anthropocene, toward the Anarchocene? Notes on the Emergence of the Next Epoch
• 8 Chthulucene Compacts: An Anarchist Guide to Multispecies Troublemaking
• 9 “Street Dogs” of Istanbul: An Exemplary Case for the Construction and Contestation of Human Domination over Urban Animals
• 10 Total Liberation Ecology: Integral Anarchism, Anthroparchy, and the Violence of Indifference
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors