How does environmentalism square with traditions regarding security? This book offers a political sociology of the emergence and proliferation of ecoterrorism. The question posed here is not what should be done about the problem of individuals or groups who come to use violent means in support of their pro-environmental beliefs, but rather what is likely to be done given the nature of the ideological battleground and the available countering methods. Ecoterrorism is presented as an instance of tactics from the point-of-view of social movement theory (SMT), and as a problem for social and political ordering from the point-of-view of critical security studies.

Chapter 1: Ecoterrorism: An Emerging Crisis

Chapter 2: How We Got Here: Cultural and Historical Antecedents of a Social Movement

Chapter 3 Crisis Politics and Business as Usual

Chapter 4. Critical Security Studies and the Eco-Terrorism Crisis

Chapter 5. Significance of the Crisis for Crisis Politics, for Security Studies, for SMT, and Beyond

Conclusion

Willem de Lint is Professor of Criminal Justice at Flinders University of South Australia.