Undoing Human Supremacy

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. Martin Locret-Collet is Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Birmingham and works as a Research Associate for the Liveable Cities Project. Maleea Acker is Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada.

• Preface: An Anarchist Political Ecology, John P. ClarkIntroduction: The Political Ecology of Human Supremacy, Simon Springer, Jennifer Mateer, and Martin Locret-ColletChapter 1. Animals in Anarchist Political Ecology, Friederike SchmitzChapter 2. Political Ecology and Animal Liberation, Patrik GažoChapter 3. Anarchism, Feminism and Veganism: A Convergence of Struggles, Ophélie Véron and Richard J. WhiteChapter 4. Vegan Capitalism and Animal Sanctuaries on Stolen Land: Re-imagining Animal Liberation as an Anti-Colonial Praxis, AnonymousChapter 5. Whose Environment? Epistemic-Political Disputes over a Concept and its Uses, Marcelo Lopes de SouzaChapter 6. A Future Eco-Anarchic Society and the Means to Achieving It, Shane McDonnellChapter 7. Beyond the Anthropocene, Toward the Anarchocene? Notes on the Emergence of the Next Epoch, Randall AmsterChapter 8. Chtuluccene Compacts: An Anarchist Guide to Multispecies Troublemaking, Benjamin O’HeranChapter 9. “Street Dogs” of Istanbul: An Exemplary

Anarchist scholars, thinkers, and activists often focus on the state. Springer, Mateer, Locret-Collet, and Acker assemble works that challenge readers to recognize—and undo—the dominion all humans claim over Earth.... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty. General readers.