Jairus Victor Grove

Savage Ecology

War and Geopolitics at the End of the World

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Produktbeschreibung

Jairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of geopolitical practice, showing how political violence is the principal force behind climate change, mass extinction, slavery, genocide, extractive capitalism, and other catastrophes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781478004844
• ISBN-10: 1478004843
• Artikelnr.: 55788230

Autorenporträt

Jairus Victor Grove is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hawai‘i Research Center for Future Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at M¿noa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Aphorisms for a New Realism  29
Part I. The Great Homogenization
1. The Anthropocene as a Geopolitical Fact  35
2. War as a Form of Life  59
3. From Exhaustion to Annihilation: A Martial Ecology of the Eurocene  79
Part II. Operational Spaces
4. Bombs: An Insurgency of Things  113
5. Blood: Vital Logistics  139
6. Brains: We Are Not Who We Are  159
7. Three Images of Transformation as Homogenization  191
Part III. Must We Persist to Continue?
8. Apocalypse as a Theory of Change  229
9. Freaks or the Incipience of Other Forms of Life  249
Conclusion. Ratio feritas: From Critical Responsiveness to Making New Forms
of Life  273
The End: Visions of Los Angeles, California, 2061  281
Notes  285
Bibliography  317
Index  341