Green Theory & Praxis Journal
ISSN: 1941-0948
Vol. 14, Issue 1 April 2022
Review: For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism (2017), Sarah M. Pike, University of California Press. Authors: Michael A. DeMoran Titles: Professor of History, Humanities, and Political Science Affiliations: Florida Southwestern State College and State College of Florida Locations: Punta Gorda, FL Emails: mdemoran@fsw.edu Keywords: Activism; Animal Rights; Anarchism; Religion; Earth Liberation
For decades, both the environmental and animal rights movements have contained militant strains, those willing to commit acts such as property destruction and civil disobedience in order to further their respective cause for nonhuman animals or nature. These types of activists have garnered much attention from scholars as well, and several works have been published that focus on these wings of the environmental and animal rights movements. However, relatively little has been written or studied in depth regarding what motivates these radical activists or how they have come to form the views and philosophies that they hold. In her book For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism, Sarah Pike delves into the inner lives of such activists, providing an illuminating and inspiring contribution to the body of literature that currently exists on the subject of radical eco-activism. Up to this point, many of the books written about radical eco-activism have tended to devote their attention to its political dimensions rather than the personal lives and ideological development of
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