Gerard Kuperus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining Place in an Unsettled World.

"In offering a powerful argument for the political relevance of the relationship between the human and nonhumans, Ecopolitics constitutes a book that both merits discussion and will hopefully spark many experiments in political and social activism." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)"Kuperus promotes a minimalist political community in which cooperation and mutual aid fostered by empathy both define group membership and transform the relational personal identities of its members. This is a timely and interesting alternative narrative to the right-wing Populist demagoguery of the Hobbesian state of nature, which supports possessive individualism and inspires contractarian society, historically separating people from the natural world … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This engaging interdisciplinary work offers a new, robust view of the political realm, one that includes the wide and differentiated chorus of non-human beings. Expanding and locating a notion of the polis (civic and biological community) into evolutionary time, it forges a novel and provocative vision of 'ecopolitics' rooted in collaboration—a shared sense of the good, and forms of interspecies mutual aid." — David Macauley, coeditor of The Seasons: Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Ecopolitics beyond the Human World1. Salmon Politics and Latour's Gaia 2. Crossing Borders: On Rats, Mice, and Other Decolonizing Packs 3. Chimpanzee Politics: Towards Empathy 4. From the Tidepool to Human Migration: The Biological Roots of Politics 5. Human and Other Ants: Decentralized Ecopolitics Conclusion: Ecopolitics as a Decentralized Basis for a New Future Notes Bibliography Index

Gerard Kuperus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining Place in an Unsettled World.

"In offering a powerful argument for the political relevance of the relationship between the human and nonhumans, Ecopolitics constitutes a book that both merits discussion and will hopefully spark many experiments in political and social activism." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)"Kuperus promotes a minimalist political community in which cooperation and mutual aid fostered by empathy both define group membership and transform the relational personal identities of its members. This is a timely and interesting alternative narrative to the right-wing Populist demagoguery of the Hobbesian state of nature, which supports possessive individualism and inspires contractarian society, historically separating people from the natural world … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This engaging interdisciplinary work offers a new, robust view of the political realm, one that includes the wide and differentiated chorus of non-human beings. Expanding and locating a notion of the polis (civic and biological community) into evolutionary time, it forges a novel and provocative vision of 'ecopolitics' rooted in collaboration—a shared sense of the good, and forms of interspecies mutual aid." — David Macauley, coeditor of The Seasons: Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Ecopolitics beyond the Human World1. Salmon Politics and Latour's Gaia 2. Crossing Borders: On Rats, Mice, and Other Decolonizing Packs 3. Chimpanzee Politics: Towards Empathy 4. From the Tidepool to Human Migration: The Biological Roots of Politics 5. Human and Other Ants: Decentralized Ecopolitics Conclusion: Ecopolitics as a Decentralized Basis for a New Future Notes Bibliography Index

Gerard Kuperus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Ecopolitical Homelessness: Defining Place in an Unsettled World.

"In offering a powerful argument for the political relevance of the relationship between the human and nonhumans, Ecopolitics constitutes a book that both merits discussion and will hopefully spark many experiments in political and social activism." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)"Kuperus promotes a minimalist political community in which cooperation and mutual aid fostered by empathy both define group membership and transform the relational personal identities of its members. This is a timely and interesting alternative narrative to the right-wing Populist demagoguery of the Hobbesian state of nature, which supports possessive individualism and inspires contractarian society, historically separating people from the natural world … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This engaging interdisciplinary work offers a new, robust view of the political realm, one that includes the wide and differentiated chorus of non-human beings. Expanding and locating a notion of the polis (civic and biological community) into evolutionary time, it forges a novel and provocative vision of 'ecopolitics' rooted in collaboration—a shared sense of the good, and forms of interspecies mutual aid." — David Macauley, coeditor of The Seasons: Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Ecopolitics beyond the Human World1. Salmon Politics and Latour's Gaia 2. Crossing Borders: On Rats, Mice, and Other Decolonizing Packs 3. Chimpanzee Politics: Towards Empathy 4. From the Tidepool to Human Migration: The Biological Roots of Politics 5. Human and Other Ants: Decentralized Ecopolitics Conclusion: Ecopolitics as a Decentralized Basis for a New Future Notes Bibliography Index