Ecosovereignty: A Political Principle for the Environmental Crisis [Hardcover]

Introduction.??Part 1: The Social Movements? 1. Food Sovereignty and Ecological Distribution Conflicts? 2. Indigenous and Place-Based Rights? Part 2: Territorial Rights? 3. The New Importance of Land and Territory? 4. An Ecosystem-Based Right to Territory? Part 3: Sovereignty Claims? 5. The Revival of Political Sovereignty? 6. From Self-Determination to Ecosovereignty? Part 4: The Political Struggle? 7.?Extractivism and Environmental Justice? 8.?Environmental Governance and Ecosovereignty.? Conclusion

In this book, Omar Dahbour develops the idea of ecosystem sovereignty, calling for a reinterpretation of essential concepts in political philosophy in order to protect peoples rights.?Connecting political and environmental philosophy,?this book will keep scholars and students informed about an increasingly important topic.

Omar Dahbour is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and Graduate School, City University of New York, and author of Illusion of the Peoples (2003), Self-Determination without Nationalism (2013), and other writings on global ethics, environmental philosophy, and critical theory.

In this book, Omar Dahbour develops the idea of ecosystem sovereignty, calling for a reinterpretation of some essential concepts in political philosophy, including territoriality, self-determination, peoplehood, and sovereignty, in order to make the case for peoples rights to protect and maintain their natural environments. In doing so, he theorizes current and historical struggles against resource extractions and land grabs, especially by food sovereignty and indigenous rights movements.

The basic idea of ecosovereignty is that peoples living in relation to particular ecosystems have a collective right to ultimate authority over those systems and the resourcl/