Liberation Ecology
Against the Racial Capitalist World System

By (author) Lisa Tilley

ISBN13: 9780745350110

Imprint: Pluto Press

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 20/01/2026

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Our planetary systems are in crisis and dominant capitalist solutions are largely making things worse. Across the world system, communities are rising up with revolutionary alternatives, but these are too often overlooked by mainstream environmental governance spheres and Global North climate movements. Liberation Ecology argues that to confront socioecological crises, we must understand racial capitalism as a world ecological system—one that shapes how environmental destruction is experienced and resisted across continents. By linking the struggles of Indigenous frontiers, Third World peripheries, and Global North core spaces, the book explores the immense power of socioecological solidarity. Urgent and uncompromising, Liberation Ecology reveals why we cannot solve the climate crisis with frameworks that centre the North or ignore racial structures of oppression. We must build a politics of solidarity to create ecologies of liberation.
Introduction: Ecology in the Racial Capitalist World System Part I: The Frontier 1. Dynamic Indigenous Ecologies 2. Collective Frontier Demands 3. Relating to the Frontier Part II: The Periphery 4. The Law of Value & Third World Peoples’ Sovereignty 5. Periphery-Frontier Liberation Projects 6. Value against Value: reading Third Worldism against market-based Commodification Part III: The Core 7. Delinking from the North 8. Plot & Plantation/Plot & Plant: social reproduction and rebellion against the market system 9. Anti-Racism as a Material, Socioecological Project Conclusion: Horizons of Liberation for the Biosphere
  • Political ideologies
  • Environmentalist thought & ideology
  • General (US: Trade)
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