Environmentalism Through Radical Action: an annotated bibliography
Environmentalism Through Radical Action: an annotated bibliography
Written by Kat Lakey
Introduction
Climate change is expanding exponentially and expeditiously. The climate action movement as it stands has made little impact on the detrimental impacts caused by unchecked capitalism and industry. If traditional methods of activism and environmentalism have proven to have little effect, it is time to expand our imaginary of what is possible for inciting change. This annotated bibliography aims to analyze the use of militant and radical direct action as an effective means to slow, stop, or otherwise impact the effects of climate change. It also expands ideas of what is possible, the only way to truly have an impactful climate action movement.
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KLakey Annotated Bibliography 11.5.22
Annotated Bibliography Works:
Sovacool, Benjamin K., and Alexander Dunlap. “Anarchy, War, or Revolt? Radical Perspectives for Climate Protection, Insurgency and Civil Disobedience in a Low-Carbon Era.” Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 86, 2022, p. 102416–, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102416.
Dunlap, Alexander. “The Direction of Ecological Insurrections: Political Ecology Comes to Daggers with Fukuoka.” Journal of Political Ecology, vol. 27, no. 1, 2020, pp. 988–1014, https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23751.
Delina, Laurence L. “Moving People from the Balcony to the Trenches: Time to Adopt ‘climatage’ in Climate Activism?” Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 90, 2022, p. 102586–, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102586.
Mikulak, Michael. “This Is the End: Earth First! and Apocalyptic Utopianism.” Forum (Edinburgh), no. 5, 2007, pp. 1–22.
Vanderheiden, Steve. “Eco-Terrorism or Justified Resistance? Radical Environmentalism and the ‘War on Terror.’” Politics & Society, vol. 33, no. 3, 2005, pp. 425–47, https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329205278462.
Conclusion
As studied throughout this Comparative Literature class, climate change can only successfully be curbed by first starting with expanding our imaginary. As Alexander Dunlap asserts, “Imaginations, capabilities and ideas should not be constrained by “practicalities” or “realism”. (Dunlap, 4) If this holds true, then all potential tactics for interrupting climate change and enacting political and social change must be considered and analyzed for efficacy. Throughout this annotated bibliography it is clear that radical environmentalist actions are justified in the face of eminent industrial and environmental collapse. It is the purpose of this analysis to validate previously unaccepted approaches to direct climate action and to expand the widely agreed upon definition of acceptable disruption.
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