Material Insurgency: Towards a Distributed Environmental Politics

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Climate Change Environmentalism and Distributed Politics
	Environmentalism in a Carbon Democracy
	Keystone XL and Pipeline Politics
	Distributed Potentialities
Chapter 2 H. D. Thoreau and the Practice of Distributed Knowledges
	Situated Knowledges and a Passionate Scientist
	Hybridity’s Alternative Maps
	Parabolic Walks
Chapter 3 Bacterial Insurgency in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest
	Insurgent Bacteria
	Decentered Humans
Chapter 4 The Material Temporalities of Leslie Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
	Material Temporalities
	Distributed Revolutions
	A Patient Urgency
Chapter 5 (Dis)intentional Politics and Its Limits: Crisis and Innovation in Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow and Chang‑rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea
	Wasting Away on the Land
	Organize “Where You Are”
	Disintentional Organizing
Chapter 6 The Unknowable Now: Passionate Science and Transformative Politics in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Speculative Fiction
	Positioned Rationality as “Passionate Science”
	Going Optimodal: Transformations in the Anthropocene
	The Unknowable Now
Coda
Notes
Works Cited
Index