Enforcing Ecocide: Power, Policing & Planetary Militarization

Foreword: A Long Hot Summer (From Now On)
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Enforcing Ecological Destruction
	Enforcing Ecological Catastrophe
		Exploring Catastrophe
		Anthropocentrism in Policing Literature
	Colonialism, the State, and Counterinsurgency-Policing
	The Book Contributors
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part I Hydrocarbon Militarization
2 A Postcolonial History of Accumulation by Contamination in the Gulf
	Introduction
	Accumulation by Contamination in the Postcolonial Era
	Iraq’s Postcolonial History of Accumulation by Contamination
	Extraction Rebellion
	The Saddam Years: War Pollution by Oil Accumulation
	The Iran–Iraq War
	The 1991 Gulf War
	The 2003 Iraq War
	The Rise of ISIL and Contamination by Repetition
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
3 Beyond Rentier State and Climate Conflict: Clashing Environmental Imaginaries and Ecological Oppression in Iran
	Introduction
	A Rentier State Creating Its Own Climate Conflict?
	Rentierism and Security Without a State?
	Ecological Oppression and State Environmental Imaginary
	Conclusion: Freedom from Resource Curse and Climate Conflict
	Appendix
	Bibliography
4 Policing Indigenous Land Defense and Climate Activism: Learnings from the Frontlines of Pipeline Resistance in Canada
	Introduction
	The Context
		Ongoing Settler Colonialism
		The Systemic Racism in the Police and Judicial Systems
		Policing Resistance Movements in Canada
	Exploring the Conflict Transformation Framework
		Discursive Power
		Institutional Power
		Relational Power
		Material Power
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part II Enforcing Extraction
5 Global Britain and London’s Mega-Mining Corporations: Colonial Ecocide, Extractive Zones, and Frontiers of Martial Mining
	Introduction
	Colonial Ecocide and Extractive Zones: Becoming a Mining Giant
		Racial Capitalism, Mass Extinctions, and Resource Wars
	Geographies of Racial Capitalism: British Martial Mining in Marikana and West Papua
	Material Militaries: Greenwashing Imperial Warfare
	Martial Mining Frontiers: The Arctic, Abyssal Zones, and Asteroids
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
6 The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Ecological Degradation and Repression: Revealing the Ecological Cost of Policing and Militarization
	Introduction
	The Ecological Cost of Policing
		The Military
		The Police
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
7 Oil, Arms and Emissions: The Role of the Military in a Changing Climate
	Introduction
	Western Values and Control Over Resources
	Energy Security
	Resource Control, Arms and Human Rights
	Power Projection and Military Emissions
	Greenwashing
	Will the Military Change?
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part III Policing Ecosystems
8 If the Army Cuts Trees, Why Can’t We? Resource Extraction, Hunting and the Impacts of Militaries on Biodiversity Conservation
	Introduction
	Situating Armed Forces in Green Militarization and Green Securitization
	Empirical Findings Using Case Studies from Assam and Beyond
		Hunting by Security Forces
		Wider Implications in Conservation Practice
	National Heroes or Environmental Annihilators? Critically Assessing the Janus-Faced Armed Forces and Its Multiple Roles
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
9 Policing the High Speed 2 (HS2) Train Line: Repression and Collusion Along Europe’s Biggest Infrastructure Project
	Introduction
	Extractivism, Railways, and the Political Ecology of Policing
		Railways and Extractivism
	HS2—Too Big to Stop and Too Big to Fail?
		Critics
	Policing HS2, Policing Green Capitalism
		Policing Along the Route: Public-Private Security Partnerships
		How Is This Being Policed?
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
10 Ecological Terror and Pacification: Counterinsurgency for the Climate Crisis
	Introduction
	Repression as a Guarantor of Ecological Degradation
		Ecological Resistance & The Politics of Killing in the Global South
		Social War in the Global North
		Borders Internal and External: Repression as Ongoing Colonialism
	Effective Counterinsurgency: Containing Resistance with Mercenaries and NGOs
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part IV Looking Forward
11 Demilitarize for a Just Transition
	Introduction
	The U.S. Military Contributes to Ecological Catastrophe and Prevents the Realization of an Ecological Society
		Militarism Undermines the Ecological Basis of Well-Being
		Militarism Harms Working People and Communities
		Militarism Diverts Money from Other Needs
		Militarized Responses to Climate Change Make Matters more Catastrophic
		Militarism Shapes Geopolitics and Undermines Global Cooperation
	The Military must be Converted and Repurposed
		Spending Reductions and Reallocation
		Economic Conversion
		Assistance, Retraining, and Civilian Repurposing
	Military Repurposing could Significantly Advance a Just Transition
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Index