Technoregionalism
Technoregion: a geographic space defined by common use of a given technology or technological assemblage.
Technoregionalism: a strategic epistemology that involves looking at technology as regionally patterned.
Technoregions of Insurrection: the use of technoregional transformation to remake actor-networks.
Social Ecology • Virtue Ethics • Actor-Network Theory • Organizational Theory
“Unlike bioregions, technoregions can be remade to manifest better ecological futures.”
Environment-Building Trades Relations
Best Practices for Intersectional Organizing:
Be promiscuous in your networking.
Establish autonomy between and within groups.
Reject ‘Big Tent’ organizing and embrace single-issue campaigns.
Recognize differences, choosing solidarity over hegemony.
Establish early, consistent, and transparent communication.
Intersectionality • Environmental Justice • Just Transitions
“When organizing in a coalition, it is crucial to stay at the table with a wide variety of groups while maintaining autonomy and employing a diversity of tactics. Coalitions fail when they demand intergroup strategic alignment, and when they claim the right to direct the conversation.”
Prison Ecology & Carceral Technoregionalism
Prison Ecology: a focus on the intersections of mass incarceration and environmental degradation that begins by recognizing incarcerated peoples’ severance from their ecological context as a moral crisis.
‘Seize the Technoregion’: an abolitionist strategy wherein local actors gain control over the technoregions that overlap with prisons and use those infrastructures as leverage points to undermine carcerality and re-place incarcerated people within multi-scalar ecological contexts.
Critical Environmental Justice • Prison Ecology • Abolition Ecology
“Seizing the technoregion transforms our strategy so we are not making demands of politicians and prison bureaucrats; instead, we are reasserting the ecological context of the prison to empower local actors in collaboration with inmate populations to undermine carceral hegemony.”
Slides from Pacific Sociological Association Conference, 2020.
Eco-Fascism
Typology of Contemporary Eco-Fascism
The Marble Statue: projects of creation through erasure that install a people-place-belief nexus, especially emphasizing whiteness and immobility; e.g., Identity Evropa.
The Auroch: claims to return to a natural order that obscure the naturalization of an aspirational fascistic social order using modern techniques; ‘back to the land’ is actually ‘back to the lab’; e.g., birthrate and population bomb obsessions.
The Electric Hummer: recast an object or process fundamental to state-capital power as vital to environmental solutions; e.g., greenwashing, Hindutva.
“The ecological crisis is a social crisis in that this relational failure is rooted in social domination which at once destroys unity in diversity and natural spontaneity. Any solution to the ecological crisis must thus reject authoritarianism, reject chauvinism, and revive autonomous, horizontal, and decentralized interaction among humans and between humans and their non-human relations.”