ENVIRONMENTALISM FROM BELOW
How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
Ashley Dawson
Haymarket Books (January 16, 2024)
Trade paper • ISBN-13: 9781642599701 •US $22.95 • 6 in x 9 in • 336 pgs.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A global account of the grassroots environmental movements fighting for the future of the planet.
Environmentalism from Below offers readers a hopeful alternative to the gridlock of UN-based climate negotiations, taking readers to the heart of popular struggles for a radical, global green new deal. These groups – those most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis – are at the frontlines of the fight for environmental reconstruction.
Drawing on accounts from Cuba to Nigeria to India to Colombia, scholar and activist Ashley Dawson constructs a multi-layered narrative of those fighting climate imperialism across the globe. Taking up the four critical challenges we face in a warming world—food, urban sustainability, energy transition, and conservation—Environmentalism from Below details the alternatives developed by grassroots movements that chart a path forward, from the practice of agroecology to urban insurgency. Along the way, Dawson offers an urgent case for environmental reconstruction and a global, decolonial Green New Deal. Environmentalism from Below offers a much-needed reminder that the fight against ecocide and for environmental liberation is already being waged worldwide. It’s time we all start paying attention.
PRAISE:
Praise for Extinction:
“An elegant, controversial thesis”
The Guardian
“A welcome contribution to the growing literature on this slow-motion calamity.”
Los Angeles Review of Books
“Dawson’s searing report on species loss will sober up anyone who has drunk the Kool-Aid of green capitalism.”
Andrew Ross
“Fusing social and ecological challenges to power is the only way forward … a long-awaited, elegant and comprehensive expression of why the time is right to make these links.”
Patrick Bond
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ashley Dawson is Professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of several books on key topics in the environmental humanities, including People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, and Extinction: A Radical History. A member of the Public Power NY campaign and the founder of the CUNY Climate Action Lab, he is a long-time climate justice activist. Dawson lives in Queens, New York.
RIGHTS INFORMATION:
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| Language/Territory | Subagent |
|---|---|
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| Dutch | Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency |
| English outside North America | David Grossman Literary Agency |
| French | Deborah Druba Agency |
| German | Paul & Peter Fritz AG Literatur Agentur |
| Greek | Read n' Right Agency |
| Hebrew | The Deborah Harris Agency |
| Italian | Berla & Griffini Rights Agency |
| Japanese | The English Agency (Japan) Ltd |
| Korean | BC Agency, or Korea Copyright Center |
| Portuguese | RIFF Agency |
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| Scandinavia | Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency |
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| Turkish | Anatolialit Agency |
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