Eco-Warriors

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Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement, Updated Edition

By Rik Scarce

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Eco-Warriors offers a pioneering and comprehensive examination of the radical environmental movement. Rik Scarce explores the passionate efforts, philosophies, and histories of groups such as Earth First!, the Sea Shepherds, Greenpeace, and the Animal Liberation Front. Sharing compelling and sometimes alarming stories from the frontline defenders of the planet, this updated edition also covers the Earth Liberation Front and provides resources for further learning about this dynamic political movement.
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This book will appeal to students and readers interested in environmentalism, social movements, and contemporary political activism. It serves as an ideal academic resource for those studying these fields.

Eco-Warriors was the first in-depth look at the people, actions, history and philosophies behind the "radical" environmental movement, updated in a new edition.

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Eco-Warriors was the first in-depth look at the people, actions, history and philosophies behind the "radical" environmental movement. Focusing on the work of Earth First!, the Sea Shepherds, Greenpeace, and the Animal Liberation Front, among others, Rik Scarce told exciting and sometimes frightening tales of front-line warriors defending an Earth they see as being in environmental peril.

While continuing to study these movements as a Ph.D. student, Scarce was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to divulge his sources to prosecutors eager to thwart these groups’ activities.

In this updated edition, Scarce brings the trajectory of this movement up to date—including material on the Earth Liberation Front—and provides current resources for all who wish to learn more about one of the most dynamic and confrontational political movements of our time.

Literate, captivating, and informative, this is also an ideal volume for classes on environmentalism, social movements, or contemporary politics.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781598740288

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 July 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 546g

Pages: 336

Collections

Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Rik Scarce Science & Nature

About the Author

Rik Scarce is the author of three books: the first edition of Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement (1990), Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature (2000), and Contempt of Court: A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from Behind Bars (2005). He is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Skidmore College and previously taught at Michigan State University and Montana State University. He has also been a newspaper reporter, worked as an aide to two politicians, and has conducted research and writing for a consulting firm. In 1993, Scarce was jailed for five months for contempt of court for refusing to divulge sources to prosecutors about his research on the radical environmental movement.