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OverviewAgainst the idea of social contract theories that suggest humans invented the political, Gerard Kuperus argues that we have always been political and that our species came into existence in a world that was already political. By studying the rich social and political lives of other animals, Ecopolitics provides suggestions for how to think and feel differently about ourselves, our relationship to other people, and the places and beings around us. Kuperus suggests we understand ourselves as part of an ecopolitical community consisting of humans and other living beings as well as inanimate objects. By recognizing nature itself as utterly political and seeing ourselves as a part of this larger political unity, we can come to face the real challenges of our times. This means that we are not simply putting ourselves in nature as we are. We are also changing who we are. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gerard KuperusPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438494265ISBN 10: 1438494262 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 02 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Ecopolitics beyond the Human World 1. Salmon Politics and Latour’s Gaia 2. Crossing Borders: On Rats, Mice, and Other Decolonizing Packs 3. Chimpanzee Politics: Towards Empathy 4. From the Tidepool to Human Migration: The Biological Roots of Politics 5. Human and Other Ants: Decentralized Ecopolitics Conclusion: Ecopolitics as a Decentralized Basis for a New Future Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""This engaging interdisciplinary work offers a new, robust view of the political realm, one that includes the wide and differentiated chorus of non-human beings. Expanding and locating a notion of the polis (civic and biological community) into evolutionary time, it forges a novel and provocative vision of 'ecopolitics' rooted in collaboration—a shared sense of the good, and forms of interspecies mutual aid."" — David Macauley, coeditor of The Seasons: Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives" Author InformationGerard Kuperus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining Place in an Unsettled World. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |