Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red-Green Vision

Shantz, Jeff

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“…One option is to flip critical theory on its head and argue that discursive violence could be used to level the playing field for those currently excluded from adaptation governance. This would follow the argument of radical political theorists that there can be no democracy (understood in terms of freedom rather than as a political system) without aggressively (or agonistically) competing discourses (Mouffe 2005;Shantz 2012). For these scholars, discursive violence understood as ongoing competition between political alternatives is not an obstacle to freedom but its prerequisite.…”

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The Discursive Politics of Adaptation to Climate Change

Mikulewicz

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Adaptation to climate change is a policy objective of rapidly growing importance for development programming across the Global South. This article offers an interrogation of the discursive politics surrounding the term based on insights from post-colonial theory. By employing a theoretical framework rooted in the concepts of imaginative geographies and discursive violence, this contribution seeks to deconstruct how adaptation is being imagined and promoted by development actors in a Global South context. The underlying study adopts a multi-sited, institutional ethnography to critically analyze an adaptation project in São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) implemented jointly by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the national government. The article presents evidence for how agents of development (re)produce an imaginative geography of the country's vulnerability and engage in a discursive violence that renders project beneficiaries vulnerable on the one hand, and seeks to transform them into model adaptation subjects, on the other. It discusses how local residents have been effectively excluded from the project based on their perceived vulnerabilities, and points to critical political theory and "imaginative counter-geographies" as ways in which the disempowering representations of the Global South as vulnerable and the discursive violence committed against its residents can be counteracted.

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The Discursive Politics of Adaptation to Climate Change

Mikulewicz

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…73 Although red and green anarchisms are presented as non-overlapping ideologies, some scholars have observed areas of congruency. A synthesis has been explored by Jeff Shantz 74 and others, 75 resulting in a red-green perspective called 'green syndicalism'. This perspective considers the degree to which an organized working class can control the environmental conditions and consequences of its labor.…”

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Red vs. green: regional variation of anarchist ideology in the United States

Williams

2009

Journal of Political Ideologies

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Anarchism is a philosophy opposed to hierarchy and authority, and is used as a critical lens to analyze the whole of human society. As with members of all social groupings, anarchists differ from each other in many ways, one of which is their political ideology. At least two visibly distinct ideological variants of anarchism are distinguishable in the US-a red anarchism that emphasizes economic concerns and a green anarchism that focuses upon the environment. American anarchists have long assumed, based upon anecdotal evidence, that there are differences in ideological variant identification between those on the two US coasts. Using survey data, two distinct measures of ideology were formed and respondents were classified into four separate US regions. Although the majority of anarchists do not specify a particular orientation, Northeasterners were associated with red anarchism, while Westerners were associated with green anarchism. These differences may be created and/or reinforced by structural or organizational factors.

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“…Syntheses do occur, such as the integration of “green” anarchism alongside traditional “red” identities (of class struggle, or organized workers fighting against capitalism), such as the Industrial Workers of the World/Earth First! coalition in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (Shantz, ; Shantz & Adam, ).…”

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Contemporary anarchist and anarchistic movements

Williams

2018

Sociology Compass

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Although the period of highest activity for anarchist movements peaked in the early 1990s, such movement continues in the present. Contemporary antiauthoritarian movements are a product of the 1950s and New Left, as well as the USSR's demise. Antiauthoritarian movements are either explicitly anarchist or implicitly anarchist (thus, simply “antiauthoritarian,” “autonomist,” or “libertarian‐socialist”). Anarchist identity is diverse, although anchored around an opposition to dominant culture, institutions, and hierarchical norms. The values and goals pursued revolve around a principled adoption of horizontalism, direct action, antiauthoritarianism, decentralization, anticapitalism, and mutual aid. These anarchist movements are unique movements, yet they also run parallel to certain movements—in both the adoption of anarchist strategies and membership overlap—such as antifascist, global justice, and squatter movements. Confrontational and playful street tactics combine with strategies of reclamation of radically egalitarian space, in opposition to hierarchical society. Despite their association with violence, contemporary anarchist movements are fairly nonviolent; however, many anarchists do not disavow the selective use of violence. Thus, massive efforts of social control through police and mass media attempt to moderate, disrupt, and suppress anarchist movements.

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Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red-Green Vision

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

The Discursive Politics of Adaptation to Climate Change

The Discursive Politics of Adaptation to Climate Change

Red vs. green: regional variation of anarchist ideology in the United States

Contemporary anarchist and anarchistic movements

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