Enforcing Ecocide: Power, Policing Planetary Militarization [Hardcover]

Policing and ecological crises  and all the inequalities, discrimination, and violence they entail  are pressing contemporary problems. Ecological degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change threaten local communities and ecosystems, and, cumulatively, the planet as a whole. Police brutality, wars, paramilitarism, private security operations, and securitization more widely impact people  especially people of colour  and habitats. This edited collection explores their relationship, and investigates the numerous ways in which police, security, and military forces intersect with, reinforce, and facilitate ecological and climate catastrophe. Employing a case study-based approach, the book examines the relationships and entanglements between policing and ecosystems, revealing the intimate connection between political violence and ecological degradation.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Securing Ecological Destruction (by Alexander Dunlap and Andrea Brock ).- Part 1: Hydrocarbon Militarization.- Chapter 2. A Postcolonial History of Accumulation by Contamination in the Gulf (by Michael Hennessy Picard & Tina Beigi).-  Chapter 3. Beyond Rentier State and Climate Conflict: Clashing Environmental Imaginaries and Ecological Oppression in Iran (by Maziar Samiee).- Chapter 4. Policing Indigenous Land Defense and Climate Activism: Learnings from the Frontlines of Pipeline Resistance in Canada (by Jen Gobby and Lucy Everett).- Part 2: Enforcing Extraction.- Chapter 5. Global Britain and Londons Mega-mining Corporations: Colonial Ecocide, Extractive Zones, and Frontiers of Martial Mining (by Daniel Selwyn).- Chapter 6. The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Ecological Degradation & Repression: Uprooting the Ecological Coast of Policing & Militarization (by Alexander Dunlap