Full Description
How does environmentalism square with traditions regarding security? This book offers a political sociology of the emergence and proliferation of ecoterrorism. The question posed here is not what should be done about the problem of individuals or groups who come to use violent means in support of their pro-environmental beliefs, but rather what is likely to be done given the nature of the ideological battleground and the available countering methods. Ecoterrorism is presented as an instance of tactics from the point-of-view of social movement theory (SMT), and as a problem for social and political ordering from the point-of-view of critical security studies.
Contents
Chapter 1: Ecoterrorism: An Emerging Crisis
Chapter 2: How We Got Here: Cultural and Historical Antecedents of a Social Movement
Chapter 3 Crisis Politics and Business as Usual
Chapter 4. Critical Security Studies and the Eco-Terrorism Crisis
Chapter 5. Significance of the Crisis for Crisis Politics, for Security Studies, for SMT, and Beyond
Conclusion
