Inhabiting the Earth

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.

Martin Locret-Collet is Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Birmingham and works as a Research Associate for the Liveable Cities Project.

Simon Springer is Professor of Human Geography, Head of Discipline for Geography and Environmental Studies, and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Jennifer Mateer is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Geography, while also lecturing in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Maleea Acker is Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Preface, John P. Clark

Introduction: The Political Inhabiting the Earth, Simon Springer, Martin Locret-Collet, and Jennifer Mateer

Chapter 1. An Effective Approach to Circular Economy within the Domain of Social Ecology, Andrej Fider¨ek

Chapter 2. Heritage as a Common: Exploring Alternative Approaches for Degrowth, Elizabeth Auclair

Chapter 3. Local Resistance to Mega-Infrastructure Projects as a Place of Emancipation: Land Use Conflits, Radical Democracy and Oppositional Public Spaces, Jérome Pélenc, Anahita Grisoni, Julien Milanesi, Léa Sébastien, and Manuel Cervera Marzal

Chapter 4. Agri(Cultural) Resistance: Food Sovereignty and Anarchism in Response to the Socio-Biodiversity Crisis - Cassidy Thomas and Leonardo E. Figueroa-Helland

Chapter 5. Our Graves Above the Timberline: Urban Green Commons, Intergenerational Justice and Diachronic Environmental Politics, Martin Locret-Collet

Chapter 6. An Anarchist Landscape? Rethinking Landscape and Other Geographies, Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

Chapter 7. Kenneth Rexroth and Paul Goodman: Poets, Writers Anarchists and Political Ecologists, Gregory Knapp

Chapter 8. The Prefigurative Politics of Going Off-Grid: Anarchist Political Ecology and Socio-Material Infrastructures, Ryan Alan Sporer and Kevin Suemnicht

Chapter 9. Escape from Ecology: Necrophilia and the Lefts Internalized Green Scare, Dan Fischer

Chapter 10. Are the State and Public Institutions Compatible with Degrowth? An Anarchist Perspective, Francisco J. Toro