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Eco-terrorism or Justified Resistance? Radical Environmentalism and the “War on Terrorâ€

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  • Steve Vanderheiden

    (University of Minnesota Duluth, svanderh@d.umn.edu)

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Radical environmental groups engaged in ecotage—or economic sabotage of inanimate objects thought to be complicit in environmental destruction—have been identified as the leading domestic terrorist threat in the post-9/11 “war on terror.†This article examines the case for extending the conventional definition of terrorism to include attacks not only against noncombatants, but also against inanimate objects, and surveys proposed moral limits suggested by proponents of ecotage. Rejecting the mistaken association between genuine acts of terrorism and ecotage, it considers the proper moral constraints upon ecotage through an examination of just war theory and nonviolent civil disobedience.

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  • Steve Vanderheiden, 2005. "Eco-terrorism or Justified Resistance? Radical Environmentalism and the “War on Terrorâ€," Politics & Society, , vol. 33(3), pages 425-447, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:33:y:2005:i:3:p:425-447
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329205278462
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