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Radical Environmentalism Bibliography (By Subject) Radical Environmentalism Bibliography (By Subject) * recommended and especially relevant to the study of radical environmentalism. ** most highly recommended and relevant to the study of radical environmentalism. Historical and Analytical Sources - Books Bishop, James. 1994. Epitaph for a desert anarchist: the life and legacy of Edward Abbey. New York & Toronto: Atheneum. Cahalan, James M. 2001. Edward Abbey: a life. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Chase, Alston. 1995. In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.). * Cohen, Michael P. The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Coleman, Kate. The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First! Encounter Books: San Francisco, 2005. * Dowie, Mark. Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995. (Many radical environmentalists found vindication in its analysis of the failures of reform environmentalism, even though this book is at most indirectly about radical environmentalism. Farrell, Justin. 2015. The battle for Yellowstone: morality and the sacred roots of environmental conflict, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Kuipers, Dean. 2009. Operation bite back: Rod Coronado's war to save American wilderness. Blomsbury. ** Fox, Stephen. The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1993. (Excellent history spotlighting the significance and emergence of the ‘environmental justice’ movement.) Hays, Samuel P. A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. Pezeshki, Charles. 1998. Wild to the Last: Environmental Conflict in Clearwater Country (Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press).Lee, Martha F. Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995. (A book based on little field work and significantly derived Taylor’s early article in The Ecologist.) Loeffler, Jack. 2002. Adventures with Ed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Losure, Mary. Our Way or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State, 2002. Minnesota University Press, St. Paul, Minnesota. (A good journalistic account of the direct action campaign versus a road in Minnesota, on terrain considered sacred by some indigenous people and a variety of Earth First!ers. Provides a window into the character of Earth First! by the late 1990s.) Merchant, Carolyn. 2005 [1992]. Radical ecology: the search for a livable world. New York & London: Routledge. Mies, Maria, and Vandana Shiva. 1993. Ecofeminism. London: Zed, 1993. Murray, John A., ed. 2015. Abbey in America: a philosopher's legacy in a new century. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Nash, Roderick Frazier. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. * ________. Wilderness and the American Mind. 4th ed. 1967; reprint, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. (A classic work that convinced many radical environmentalists that Chrstianity is anti-nature.) Nash, Roderick Frazier, ed. American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History. Third ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1990. Pellow, David N. 2014. Total liberation: the power and promise of animal rights and the radical earth movement. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Pike, Sarah M. 2017. For the wild: ritual and commitment in radical eco-activism. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. Ronald, Ann. 2000. The New West of Edward Abbey. 2nd ed (Reno: University of Nevada Press). !1 * Scarce, Rik. Ecowarriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement. Chicago: Noble, 1990. (An excellent early journalist book, based on a year worth of the ground field work, from an author who spent several months in jail for refusing to testify about his sources to a grand jury, and who went on into the field of Environmental Sociology, and who is now at Skidmore College [email protected].) Shabecoff, Philip. A fierce green fire: the American environmental movement. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2003. ** Taylor, Bron, ed. Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995. Speece, Darren. 2017. Defending giants: the redwood wars and the transformation of American environmental politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ** Zakin, Susan. Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement. New York: Viking, 1993. Wall, Derek. Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and the Anti-Roads Movement. London:Routledge, 1999. (An activist-scholar involved in the United Kingdom’s Earth First! writes about it drawing on social movement theory; good description of UK scene, but marred by misleading stereotypes of the movement in the United States.) Historical and Analytical Sources - Articles LeVasseur, Todd. "Decisive ecological warfare: triggering industrial collapse via deep green resistance." Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 11 (1, 2017):109-130. Mallory, Chaone. 2006. "Ecofeminism and forest defense in Cascadia: gender, theory, and radical activism." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 17 (1):32-49. Parson, Sean. 2008. "Understanding the ideology of the Earth Liberation Front." Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy 4 (2):50-66. Taylor, Bron. "The Religion and Politics of Earth First!" The Ecologist 21, no. 6 [November/December] (1991): 258-66. ** ______. "Resacralizing Earth: Pagan Environmentalism and the Restoration of Turtle Island." In American Sacred Space, eds. David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal, 97-151. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. ** Taylor, Bron. "Earth First!'s Religious Radicalism." In Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives, ed. Christopher Key Chapple, 185-209. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1994. ________. "Evoking the Ecological Self: Art as Resistance to the War on Nature." Peace Review 5, no. 2 (1993): 225-30. ________. "Ecological Resistance Movements; Not Always Deep But If Deep, Religious: Reply to Devall." The Trumpeter 13, no. 2 (1996): 98-103. This criticizes, among other things, the claim by Bill Devall that Deep Ecology ought not be considered religions a religious movement. ________. "Earth First! Fights Back." Terra Nova 2, no. 2 [Spring] (1997): 29-43. * _______. "Earthen Spirituality or Cultural Genocide: Radical Environmentalism's Appropriation of Native American Spirituality." Religion 17, no. 2 (1997): 183-215. * _______. "Religion, Violence, and Radical Environmentalism: From Earth First! to the Unabomber to the Earth Liberation Front." Terrorism and Political Violence 10, no. 4 (1998): 10-42. ________. "Green Apocalypticism: Understanding Disaster in the Radical Environmental Worldview." Society and Natural Resources 12, no. 4 (1999): 377-86. This is largely a critique of the book by Martha Lee. **_______. "Deep Ecology and Its Social Philosophy: A Critique." In Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays on Deep Ecology, eds. Eric Katz, Andrew Light and David Rothenberg, 269-99. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2000. * ______. "Bioregionalism: An Ethics of Loyalty to Place." Landscape Journal 19, no. 1&2 (2000): 50-72. ________. "Review of Derek Wall's Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and the Anti-Roads Movement." Environmental Ethics 23, no. 1 (2001): 87-90. ** _______. "Diggers, Wolfs, Ents, Elves and Expanding Universes: Bricolage, Religion, and Violence From Earth First! and the Earth Liberation Front to the Antiglobalization Resistance." In The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization, eds. Jeffrey Kaplan and Heléne Lööw, 26-74. Lanham, Maryland: Altamira/Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. ________. "Threat Assessments and Radical Environmentalism." Terrorism and political violence 15, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 183-172. ________. "Revisiting Ecoterrorism." In Religionen Im Konflikt, eds. Vasilios N. Makrides and Jörg Rüpke, tba. Münster, Germany: Aschendorff, 2004. !2 __________. 2008. "The tributaries of radical environmentalism." Journal of Radicalism 2 (1):27-61. Taylor, Bron, ed. Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995. (also on reserve) Zakin, Susan. Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement. New York: Viking, 1993. Special research archive, hosted by the Rachel Carson Center: Bron Taylor’s Print History and Digital Archive of Earth First!, Wild Earth, Live Wild or Die, and Alarm Central Intellectual Antecedents in Social Criticism and in Nature Writing ** Berman, Morris. The Reenchantment of the World. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1981. ________. Wandering God. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. ** Catton, William. Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1980. Diamond, Jared. "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race." Discover, no. May (1987): 64-6. (Online at the Radical Anthropology Website) Diamond,
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