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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ecopolitics beyond the Human World -- The Beginning of Politics -- Human and Non-human Others -- Situating Ecopolitics -- Redefining Home -- The Common Good as Shared Good -- What Does Ecopolitics Want? -- Learning from Non-human Politics -- Summary of Chapters -- Chapter 1 Salmon Politics and Latour's Gaia -- Salmon Being, Being Salmon -- Group Being -- Latour's Gaia -- Other Than Human Politics -- Salmon in Indigenous Cultures -- Salmon in the Anthropocene -- Indigenous Knowledge and Practice -- Conclusion

Chapter 2 Crossing Borders: On Rats, Mice, and Other Decolonizing Packs -- Warfare I -- Becoming Rats -- Of Mice and Men: Becoming Mice -- Thinking Like a Rat -- Decolonization -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Chimpanzee Politics: Towards Empathy -- Chimpanzee Politics -- Empathy -- Personalities and Self: Confucian Reflections -- Identity Politics -- Conclusion: We Have Never Been Nonpolitical -- Chapter 4 From the Tidepool to Human Migration: The Biological Roots of Politics -- The Sea of Cortez: Deep Ecology in the Tidepools -- Human Struggles and Cooperation: The Phalanx -- On the Move

The Tidepool Society -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Human and Other Ants: Decentralized Ecopolitics -- A Scientific Ethics: Kropotkin -- Anarchistic Ants -- Human Ants -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Ecopolitics as a Decentralized Basis for a New Future -- From Lifeboat Ethics to Cruise Ship Decadence -- Towards Sympathy -- New Discourses, New Stories, New Ways of Being -- Ecopolitics -- Postscript I: Program for a Borderless Ecopolitics -- Postscript II: A Final Story -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Analyzes the different feelings, drives and instincts we have inherited from other species, to suggest a new understanding of ourselves as part of an eco-political community.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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