The ecocentrists : a history of radical environmentalism

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The ecocentrists : a history of radical environmentalism

Title remainder

a history of radical environmentalism

Statement of responsibility

Keith Makoto Woodhouse

Creator

• Woodhouse, Keith Mako

Author

• Woodhouse, Keith Mako

Subject

• Environmentalism -- United States -- History
• Environmentalists -- Political activity -- United States
• Radicalism -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"Keith Woodhouse explores the political and intellectual history of the radical environmental movement--a movement founded by activists who grew disenchanted with the strategies of the mainstream environmental movement. While mainstream environmentalists (Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, etc.) emphasized lobbying and working within the political system, groups like Earth First! increasingly championed a more radical approach both tactically and philosophically. Tactically, they embraced direct action--physically blocking or even sabotaging and destroying encroaching industry and infrastructure. Philosophically, they championed views that privileged nature or wilderness over humanity broadly conceived, with little or no regard for the oppressed or impoverished. Such views increasingly set them at odds with other radical movements--feminism, anarchism, etc.--as well as with mainstream environmentalists, all appalled by their simplistic view of complex social problems. Taken together, Woodhouse offers a sophisticated and nuanced picture of modern American environmentalism, showing how it interacted with and was changed by other intellectual, political and social developments over the last half of the twentieth century"--

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Provided by publisher

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LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

320.58

Index

index present

LC call number

GE197

LC item number

.W66 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography