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For the wild : ritual and commitment in radical eco-activism / Sarah M. Pike.

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"For the Wild explores the ways in which the commitments of radical environmental and animal-rights activists develop through powerful experiences with the larger-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood. The book addresses the question of how and why activists come to value nonhum...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pike, Sarah M., 1959- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Animal rights > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Animal rights movement > United States.
Animal rights activists > United States.
Environmentalists > United States > Attitudes.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Environmental ethics > United States.
Animal rights activists.
Animal rights > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animal rights movement.
Environmental ethics.
Environmentalists > Attitudes.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Freedom and insurrection around a fire
  • Youth culture and the roots of contemporary activism
  • Childhood landscapes of wonder and awe
  • Into the forest
  • Liberation's crusade
  • Circles of community, strategies of inclusion
  • Rites of grief and mourning.

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