ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a basic intellectual overview of ecological anarchism, and then uses Michael Freeden's understanding of ideology to create a basic mapping of it. Next, it examines the anti-civilizational thread of contemporary American anarchism and a variety of ecocentric thought that is often excluded from anarchist discussions. Examining this strand of thought is helpful to identify important critiques and ideas that can be used to expand the ecological discussion within the anarchist milieu. Anti-civilization anarchism is a branch of anarchist politics and theory that has received little attention by academics and anarchist scholars, even though the radical activist community has intensely debated primitivism for years. The chapter finally provides a series of concepts, questions, and ideas that anti-civilizational anarchism offers for other strands of radical and anarchist thought, in hopes that this creates a larger dialogue around ecological sustainability, technological systems, and modern industrialism.
