New Book | Anarchistische Ökologien: Eine Umweltgeschichte der Emanzipation
Milo Probst | Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2024
From the Publisher:
With Anarchistische Ökologien, Milo Probst illustrates how anarchists between 1870 and 1920 continuously sought new ways to inhabit the Earth and live from its resources. The historian brings a diverse range of voices to the forefront, from well-known figures like Peter Kropotkin and the brothers Élie and Élisée Reclus to lesser-known authors such as Jean Grave or André Léo, as well as anonymous contributors to newspaper articles. In various ways, they all longed for a different relationship with their fellow humans and environments—an alternative use of the Earth, new forms of labor and technology, and a different relationship with their own bodies. However, this does not necessarily make them visionary precursors of contemporary ecological thought. Rather, this book—true to anarchist principles—advocates for taking seriously the human capacity to creatively and autonomously experiment with their relationships to the environment.
Milo Probst, born in 1991 in Basel, earned his PhD from the University of Basel in 2022 with a dissertation on environmental criticism in anarchism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher studying the history of women in the West German and Italian ecology movements of the 1970s and 1980s. In 2021, his book Für einen Umweltschutz der 99% (For Environmental Protection of the 99%) was published by Nautilus.
[Translated: “Anarchist Ecologies: An Environmental History of Emancipation”]
ISBN: 978-3-7518-2044-8
Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2024 | 296pp.