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The inaugural online issue of Harbinger: a Journal of Social Ecology. Winter 2019.

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The Social Ecological Case for Animal Liberation: Towards an Interspecies Communalism

Social ecology’s critique of hierarchy and vision of an emancipated “free nature” must include non-human animals.

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.

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?

We Will Not Perfume Your Sewers: A Call to Artists

By allowing us to imagine a world beyond what presently exists, art is a vital weapon in the fight against that which “corrodes all visionary thinking.”

Social Ecology and Disability Justice: Making A New Society

Social ecology and disability justice share a variety of values and goals that make them natural partners in struggles for collective liberation.

Jordan Peterson, Carl Jung, and the Challenge for Social Ecology

Jordan Peterson has sparked a revival of interest in Carl Jung’s thought. Is there an anti-capitalist interpretation of this critic of secular modernity that Peterson is ideologically blind to?

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.

Wither the State

Marxists and anarchists alike have neglected the role of direct democracy in the governance of a revolutionary society. By building on common ground shared by both traditions, social ecology offers a path out of this historical deadlock.

Editorial

Welcome to the relaunch of Harbinger: a Journal of Social Ecology.