Vol. 4, Issue #3 Summer 2024

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Editorial: Heresies and Sacred Cows
Prosperity, Urbanity, and Ecological Consciousness
Heretical Resonances: Historicizing Social Ecology in the Neoliberal Epoch
Social Ecology After the Collapse of Western Hegemony
From Ambivalence to Profanity: Resisting the Dogmatic Ideal of Community
Agency in Eugenics Thinking
Second Nature Beyond the Human
Always Swimming Upstream: My Social Ecology Journey
In Conversation on Dialectical Naturalism
Editorial: Heresies and Sacred Cows

This issue of Harbinger is dedicated to exploring what might be called social ecology “heresies” – new perspectives that critique, challenge, or rethink its prevailing “orthodoxies” and take aim at some of our political community’s sacred cows.

Prosperity, Urbanity, and Ecological Consciousness

The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest—ranging from southern Canada to northern California—have long had…

Heretical Resonances: Historicizing Social Ecology in the Neoliberal Epoch

Murray Bookchin was keenly aware of the unique constraints, as well as possibilities, imposed by…

Social Ecology After the Collapse of Western Hegemony

The 1960s saw the development of the struggles of various social groups as well as…

From Ambivalence to Profanity: Resisting the Dogmatic Ideal of Community

Calls for radical community-based action in response to the climate crisis seem to grow louder…

Agency in Eugenics Thinking

Armed with its twisted philosophy of history and mystical sensibility, the very idea of eugenics…

Second Nature Beyond the Human

This essay is the first of a planned three-part series delving into the science of…

Always Swimming Upstream: My Social Ecology Journey

When my teacher Pamela Boyce Simms gave a presentation at the 2017 ISE Summer Gathering…

In Conversation on Dialectical Naturalism

Murray Bookchin’s ideas on dialectical naturalism have sparked significant debate among ecophilosophers, even within social…

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Blackness and Democratic Modernity

“A nation-state simply is not an adequate vessel for Black self-determination—such a ‘Black state’ would be a stricture upon that self-determination, not its expression.”

The Politics of Nature from Left to Right: Radicals, Reactionaries, and Ecological Responses to Modernity

“All varieties of environmentalism eventually sort out, implicitly or explicitly, what they draw from the left and from the right as well as the emergent space between those poles.”

Questioning Öcalan’s Jewish Question

“As critical readers, we need to be able to differentiate and disentangle Öcalan’s mistaken, damaging ideas about Jewish power from the vital intellectual work of democratic confederalism.”

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Issue #1

When Plants Sing: Plant Bioacoustics and the Problem of Anthropomorphism

Our understanding of the growing field of plant bioacoustics is limited by our penchant for anthropomorhism: projecting the categories and problems of human society onto the natural world.

Forms of Freedom: Dual Power in Fiji

Dual power movements can learn from the iTakukei people’s indigenous forms of direct democracy in post-colonial Fiji.

Social Ecology in the Capitalocene

Social and World Ecology are prominent tendencies in contemporary radical ecology. What can these two traditions learn from each other, and how might it inform political praxis today?

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