Anthony J. Nocella - A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front

Anthony J. Nocella II
Series Editor

Vol. 4

The Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation series is part of the Peter Lang Education list.
Every volume is peer reviewed and meets the highest quality standards for content and production.

PETER LANG

New York Bern Berlin
Brussels Vienna Oxford Warsaw

A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front

EDITORS
Anthony J. Nocella II, Sean Parson, Amber E. George, and Stephanie Eccles

PETER LANG

New York Bern Berlin
Brussels Vienna Oxford Warsaw

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Nocella II, Anthony J., editor.
Title: A historical scholarly collection of writings on the Earth Liberation Front / edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Sean Parson, Amber E. George, and Stephanie Eccles.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2019.
Series: Radical animal studies and total liberation; vol. 4
ISSN 2469-3065 (print) | ISSN 2469-3081 (online)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018033816 | ISBN 978-1-4331-5992-3 (hardback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-5993-0 (paperback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-5994-7 (ebook pdf) | ISBN 978-1-4331-5995-4 (epub)
ISBN 978-1-4331-5996-1 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Earth Liberation Front. | Ecoterrorism. | Environmentalism.
Classification: LCC GE197.H57 2019 | DDC 363.325dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018033816
DOI 10.3726/b14465
Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de/.
2019 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York
29 Broadway, 18th floor, New York, NY 10006
www.peterlang.com
All rights reserved.
Reprint or reproduction, even partially, in all forms such as microfilm, xerography, microfiche, microcard, and offset strictly prohibited.

About the author

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., a long-time community organizer and environmental justice scholar, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Institute for Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. He has published over forty books on socio-political issues and is interviewed by the media regularly.

Sean Parson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of Cooking Up a Revolution and co-editor of Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies.

Amber E. George, Ph.D., is a scholar-activist who teaches philosophy at Galen College. She is the editor of the Journal of Critical Animal Studies and co-editor of Screening the Nonhuman and The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies.

Stephanie Eccles, MSc., is an activist-scholar currently based in Montreal, Quebec. She is a Ph.D. student at Concordia University, focusing her dissertation research at the crossroads of critical animal geography and ethology.

About the book

As the inevitable, unsustainable nature of contemporary society becomes increasingly more obvious, it is important for scholars and activists to engage with the question, what is to be done? A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front provides an analysis and overview of an under-discussed but important part of the radical environmental movement, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which actively tried to stop ecocide. Through engagement with the activism and thought behind the ELF, volume contributors encourage readers to begin questioning the nature of contemporary capitalism, the state, and militarism. This book also explores the social movement and tactical impact of the ELF as well as governmental response to its activism, in order to strengthen analytic understanding of effectiveness, resistance, and community resilience. A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front is sure to inspire more scholarly work around social change, eco-terrorism, environmental studies, and environmental justice. This book is a valuable text for criminologists, sociologists, environmental advocates, politicians, political scientists, activists, community organizers, and religious leaders.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

Anthony J. Nocella II, SERIES EDITOR

The Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation book series branches out of Critical Animal Studies (a field co-founded by Anthony J. Nocella II) with the argument that criticism is not enough. Action must follow theory. This series demands that scholars are engaged with their subjects both theoretically and actively via radical, revolutionary, intersectional action for total liberation. Founded in anarchism, the series provides space for scholar-activists who challenge authoritarianism and oppression in their many daily forms. Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation promotes accessible and inclusive scholarship that is based on personal narrative as well as traditional research, and is especially interested in the advancement of interwoven voices and perspectives from multiple radical, revolutionary social justice groups and movements such as Black Lives Matter, Idle No More, Earth First!, the Zapatistas, ADAPT, prison abolition, LGBTTQQIA rights, disability liberation, Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, political prisoners, radical transnational feminism, environmental justice, food justice, youth justice, and Hip Hop activism.

To order other books in this series please contact our Customer Service Department:

(800) 770-LANG (within the US)
(212) 647-7706 (outside the US)
(212) 647-7707 FAX

To find out more about the series or browse a full list of titles, please visit our website:

WWW.PETERLANG.COM.

Praise for A Historical Scholarly Collection of Writings on the Earth Liberation Front

The editors have successfully brought together an amazing collection of pivotal essays from academic journals on the subject of direct action and environmentalism. This book effectively argues and supports a call to arms against the ecological destruction of the status quo, motivating readers to realize theres always more work that needs to be done.

Joe Leeson-Schatz, Director of Speech and Debate at Binghamton University

[This book is] [a]n important and timely collection of essays that help expand our understanding of the ELF, specifically, and nonhuman liberation, more generally. The essays avoid some of the more common knee-jerk reactions and engage the issues in thoughtful, critical, and intellectually stimulating ways. This collection will no doubt spark important discussion and debate!