Out of the Woods

Hope Against Hope (eBook, ePUB)

Writings on Ecological Crisis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We are told we are living in the middle of a climate crisis of unprecedented proportions. As doomsday scenarios mount, hope collapses. Even as more and more people around the planet experience climate disaster as immediate and urgent, our imagination and programs for transformation lag. The disasters are already here, and the crises, longstanding, are ongoing.

In Hope Against Hope, the Out of the Woods collective investigates the critical relation between climate change and capitalism and calls for the expansion of our conceptual toolbox to organize within and against ecological crisis characterized by deepening inequality, rising far-right movements, and-relatedly-more frequent and devastating disasters. While much of environmentalist and leftist discourse in this political moment remain oriented toward horizons that repeat and renew racist, anti-migrant, nationalist, and capitalist assumptions, Out of the Woods charts a revolutionary course adequate to our times.

At the center of the renewed political orientation Hope Against Hope expounds is an abolitionist approach to border imperialism, reactionary ecology, and state violence that underpins many green solutions and modes of understanding nature. It reminds us of the frequent moments and movements of solidarity emerging in the ruins all around us. Their stunning conclusion to the disarray of politics in our seemingly end times is the urgency of creating what Out of the Woods calls "disaster communism"-the collective power to transform our future political horizons from the ruins and establish a climate future based in common life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Common Notions
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781942173366
• Artikelnr.: 59740677

Autorenporträt

Out of the Woods is a transnational political research and theory collective, a loose grouping of decolonial, small-c communist, antiracist queer-feminist thinkers working together to think through the problem of ecological crisis.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction
I. BORDERS Introduction: Disaster Migration On
Climate/Borders/Survival/Care/Struggle: Two Members of Out of the Woods in
Conversation with BASE Magazine Refuges and Death-Worlds Infrastructure
Against Borders A Hostile Environment
II. NATURES Introduction: Cyborg Ecology The Dangers of Reactionary Ecology
Lies of the Land: Against and Beyond Völkisch Environmentalism The
Political Economy of Hunger Contemporary Agriculture: Climate, Capital, and
Cyborg Agroecology James O'Connor's Second Contradiction of Capitalism
Murray Bookchin's Liberatory Technics Organizing Nature in the Midst of
Crisis: Jason W. Moore's Capitalism in the Web of Life
III. FUTURES Introduction: Toward a Regenerative Utopianism The Future is
Kids' Stuff Cthulhu Plays No Role for Me Postcapitalist Ecology: A Comment
on Inventing the Future
IV. STRATEGIES Introduction: Organizing Amidst Crisis Blockadia and
Capitalism: Naomi Klein vs. Naomi Klein Climate Populism and the People's
Climate March Après moi le déluge! Fossil Fuel Abolitionism and the Carbon
Bubble Disaster Communism: The Uses of Disaster
Bibliography Index