Ecocritique: An Enduring View of Power and the Eco/Logical Order

Abstract

Abstract Encouraging broad collective acknowledgement of how this contemporary moment of compounding ecological pressure, deepening global economic inequality, and rising political violence has emerged, ecocritique offers and understanding of how and why climate emergency is simultaneously a crisis of accountability and democracy and a struggle for power and knowledge. Excavating the roots of environmental discourse and evaluating the underlying values and logics of environmentalism is requisite to interventions into ecosystems of harm and locating the leverage points for healing socio-ecological rifts, including within the environmental scholarship and social movements. As a tool for environmental theory and critical methodology, ecocritique hold significant transformational potential, offering an alternative power/knowledge formulation which questions the logic of scarcity and accumulation and exposes uneven systems of power and economy. As a demand for accountability, ecocritique charts a path toward transformative environmentalities and environmentalisms that privilege an ethic of care for present and into the future.