editor Ian Angus takes a look at five new titles delving into crucial issues for ecosocialists.
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By Naomi Klein
Simon & Schuster (in Canada: Knopf) 2019
Of course she needs no introduction — Naomi Klein is a leading advocate for social and environmental justice, whose books and essays have helped to mobilize millions. On Fire combines more than a decade of her long-form essays with new material on the political and economic crises we face today.
By Joan Kuyek
Between the Lines, 2019
An essential resource from a long-time campaigner against Canada’s corrupt and destructive mining industry. Joan Kuyek shows how people are fighting back, to stop mines before they start, to get abandoned mines cleaned up, and to change the laws that were written by and for corporate interests.
By Jairus Victor Grove
Duke University Press, 2019
We live in a world made by war. Jairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theory of geopolitics, showing how political violence is the principal force behind climate change, mass extinction, slavery, genocide, extractive capitalism, and other catastrophes.
By Keith Makato Woodhouse
Columbia University Press, 2018
In the 1980s, small groups of US green activists began direct action campaigns including blockades, tree-sits and industrial sabotage. Their defence of nature was coupled with explicit indifference to human suffering and social justice. In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makato Woodhouse traces the origins and history of that movement, and critiques its philosophical and political ideas.
By Alan Nasser
Pluto Press, 2018
From industrialisation to the present day, Overripe Economy is a genealogy of the emergence of a finance-ridden, authoritarian, austerity-plagued US capitalism. Alan Nasser argues that neoliberal capitalism is the natural outcome of mature capitalism’s evolution.
[Inclusion on the list doesn't necessarily imply endorsement of a book's contents.]