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Resource and environmental management generally entail an attempt
by governing authorities to dominate, reroute, and tame the natural
flows of water, the growth of forests, manage the populations of
non-human bodies, and control nature more generally. Often this is
done under the mantle of conservation, economic development, and
sustainable management, but still involves a quest to "civilize"
and control all aspects of nature for a specific purpose. The
results of this form of environmental management and governance are
many, but by and large, across the globe, it has meant governments
construct a specific idea regarding nature and the environment.
These forms of control also extend beyond the natural environment,
allowing for particular methods of managing human and non-human
populations in order to maintain power and enact sovereignty. This
volume contributes to advancing an 'ecology of freedom,' which can
critique current anthropocentric environmental destruction, as well
as focusing on environmental justice and decentralized ecological
governance. While concentrating on these areas of anarchist
political ecology, three major themes emerged from the chapters:
the legacies of colonialism that continue to echo in current
resource management and governance practices, the necessity of
overcoming human/nature dualisms for environmental justice and
sustainability, and finally discussions and critiques of
extractivism as a governing and economic mentality.
Over the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have
progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the
place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments
being increasingly appreciated and theorized as hybrids between
nature and culture, entities made of socio-ecological processes in
constant transformation. Spanning the fields of political ecology,
environmental studies, and sociology, this new direction in urban
theory emerged in concert with global concern for sustainability
and environmental justice. This volume explores the notion that
connecting with nature holds the key to a more progressive and
liberatory politics.
The Earth is in crisis. We know this. We have known this for a long
time. In the throes of the unfolding nightmare we call "capitalism"
it is not hard to see and hear the violence that is being enacted
against the planet. If we are to move beyond the idea that humanity
is tasked with expressing our dominion over nature and towards a
renewed integral understanding of humanity as firmly located within
the biosphere, as an anarchist political ecology demands, then we
have to start interrogating the privileges, hierarchies, and
human-centric frames that guide our ways of knowing and being in
the world. This volume centers around the idea that anarchism, as a
conceptual framework, encourages us to contend with the multiple
lines of difference, the various iterations of privilege, and the
manifold set of archies that undergird our understandings of the
world, and crucially, our place within it.
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