Ecopolitics Redefining the Polis

Intro — Contents — Acknowledgments — Introduction: Ecopolitics beyond the Human World — The Beginning of Politics — Human and Non-human Others — Situating Ecopolitics — Redefining Home — The Common Good as Shared Good — What Does Ecopolitics Want? — Learning from Non-human Politics — Summary of Chapters — Chapter 1 Salmon Politics and Latour’s Gaia — Salmon Being, Being Salmon — Group Being — Latour’s Gaia — Other Than Human Politics — Salmon in Indigenous Cultures — Salmon in the Anthropocene — Indigenous Knowledge and Practice — Conclusion — Chapter 2 Crossing Borders: On Rats, Mice, and Other Decolonizing Packs — Warfare I — Becoming Rats — Of Mice and Men: Becoming Mice — Thinking Like a Rat — Decolonization — Conclusion — Chapter 3 Chimpanzee Politics: Towards Empathy — Chimpanzee Politics — Empathy — Personalities and Self: Confucian Reflections — Identity Politics — Conclusion: We Have Never Been Nonpolitical — Chapter 4 From the Tidepool to Human Migration: The Biological Roots of Politics — The Sea of Cortez: Deep Ecology in the Tidepools — Human Struggles and Cooperation: The Phalanx — On the Move — The Tidepool Society — Conclusion — Chapter 5 Human and Other Ants: Decentralized Ecopolitics — A Scientific Ethics: Kropotkin — Anarchistic Ants — Human Ants — Conclusion — Conclusion: Ecopolitics as a Decentralized Basis for a New Future — From Lifeboat Ethics to Cruise Ship Decadence — Towards Sympathy — New Discourses, New Stories, New Ways of Being — Ecopolitics — Postscript I: Program for a Borderless Ecopolitics — Postscript II: A Final Story — Notes — Bibliography — Index.