Radical ecology has emerged as a potential point for linkage, or
nodal point, of a wide plurality of anti-systemic struggles. Many
have long expected that the "nature-society" question will provide
the most likely focus for a coalescence of new social movements
into a broadened counter-hegemonic movement. However, one problem
persists. Ecology as nodal point of solidarity has been marked by
conflict. Examining ecology exposes a rather troubled mythopoetic,
for which even a tentative fixing of radicalizing struggles has
proved difficult. Nature can be articulated to widely ranging
interpretations and discourses and can be deployed for vastly
different purposes. This provides for the strength of nature as a
realm of freedom but paradoxically leaves it open to discourses of
unfreedom. This book adapts Georges Sorel's theory of social myths
to examine radical ecology as a point of convergence for social
movements. In doing so it makes an important contribution to
understandings of environmentalism and social movements more
broadly. An innovative work it will be of great interest for
students of social theory and politics as well as anyone involved
in environmental activism.
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