Keith Makoto Woodhouse. The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism.

Sowards, Adam M.

doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz1279

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“…Ironically, however, this passage highlights some of his strongest affinities with environmentalism. It echoes a motif from Edward Abbey's ([1975] 2004) novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, which was a major source of inspiration for American radical environmentalists (Lee 1995;Taylor 2008;Woodhouse 2018). Two of Abbey's protagonists repeatedly throw their beer cans on the road while they engage in sabotage to protect the wilderness from industrial encroachment: "Any road I wasn't consulted about that I don't like, I litter.…”

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confidence: 93%

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Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber

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2024

Am Polit Sci Rev

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A key finding of recent scholarship on political violence is that environmentalists rarely, if ever, use lethal violence. Many scholars have argued that “ecoterrorism” is a misnomer for what is more accurately termed “ecotage.” Large-n studies of environmental activism have identified only one apparent example of an environmentally motivated terrorist: the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. The Unabomber case is therefore a “crucial case” for evaluating the Peaceful Environmentalist Thesis—the generalization that environmentalists do not use lethal violence. Pioneering a forensic method of ideology analysis, this article uses previously unexamined archival material to assess the Unabomber’s affinities with three environmental ideologies: radical environmentalism, green anarchism, and right-wing ecologism. It shows that the Unabomber’s ideology is not environmentalist in intellectual origins or in conceptual structure, and that his motivations were anti-technological rather than pro-ecological. The Unabomber case demonstrates how ideology analysis can complement and strengthen research on political violence.

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“…On the history of Earth First! and radical environmentalism, seeLee (1995),Taylor (2008), andWoodhouse (2018).…”

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Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber

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2024

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Anti-technology sentiment has always found support within parts of the environmental movement. In particular, members of the 'eco-centric' wing -those who value all life and do not elevate humans above other species -have supported and promoted antitechnology views (Woodhouse, 2018). This primitivist impulse has also been popular with the green anarchist wing of the radical environmental movement (Parson, 2018).…”

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Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement

Zeitzoff,

Gold

2024

Journal of Peace Research

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Much of the focus of cyber conflict has been on interstate conflict. This article focuses on two interrelated questions in the important but neglected area of cyber contentious politics. First, how does the public feel about the use of different eco tactics including cyber-based tactics carried out by activists involved in the radical environmental movement, a movement that uses protest and sabotage in service of environmental causes? Second, how do anti-technology sentiment and concerns about climate change influence support for different eco tactics? To answer these questions, we conduct a survey and survey experiment on a nationally diverse sample of Americans. We find that Americans are less supportive of certain eco tactics, particularly those that involve property destruction or physical sabotage compared to cyber-based tactics. We further show that anti-technology sentiment and perceived threat from climate change are correlated with increased support for eco direct actions. Using a survey experiment we show that cyber direct actions that result in sabotage are viewed as more acceptable than kinetic actions even though they both result in the same level of destruction. Finally, we include qualitative data from interviews with activists to better understand the strategy and role that new technology and tactics play in the broader radical environmental movement.

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“…The literature on environmentalism is deep, for example, there are over forty thousand references in one search that was done that focused on the term environmentalism. The literature has focused on different elements such as definitions for the term (O'Riordan, 1976;Spieles, 2017;Kahraman and Baig, 2010), examining the historical context (Guha, 2000;Pepper, 1996;Benson, 2020;Woodhouse, 2018;Spears, 2019), to examining environmentalism in specific contexts such as its connections to religion or in a specific local context (Staggenborg, 2020;Hancock, 2017;Wald et al, 2019;Gatt, 2017;Li and Shapiro, 2020;Adaman et al, 2005). Globally the term of environmentalism has often been quite difficult to define and the terms have often been characterized as vague and contested.…”

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Unearthing the decolonial environmental worldview (DEW): The case of Jamaica

Baptiste

Baptiste-Garrin²

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Environmentalism has been defined in multiple ways across the literature from a global perspective, both as an ideology and as a movement. However, the definitions of environmentalism have been either vaguely defined or broad with the most common characterization being that of conservation and preservation being at the heart of environmentalism. While there is considerable research on environmentalism in the industrialized world context, there is still limited research in developing regions, with a dearth of research in the Caribbean, hence the rationale for this research. The physical environments of former colonial states have always been subjected to exploitation, yet the way in which this resource has been used by local populations have not been characterized. This paper begins to examine the ways in which local populations of former colonized states view environmentalism. Taking a case study approach, Jamaica is used as the beginning point of reference. Using interviews with self-identified environmental activists, results indicate that there is, what is uniquely referred to in this paper, a decolonial environmental worldview (DEW) that exists among environmental activists. This worldview is grounded in a number of principles that are tied to the way in which the decolonization process continues to proceed in the Caribbean region. The paper postulates that this DEW framework has elasticity and should be applied to other postcolonial societies to determine its salience.

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Keith Makoto Woodhouse. The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism.

Cited by 4 publications

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Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber

Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber

Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement

Unearthing the decolonial environmental worldview (DEW): The case of Jamaica

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