Poststructuralist Anarchism and Ecology

Eco-anarchism is a strand of ecology as a social movement and political ideology. The basic tenets of eco-anarchism can be best described as a co-existence of anarchist understanding of freedom and equality, the anarchist critique of the concept of authority and ecological perspective that puts an emphasis on the priority of reflecting on the relationship between human beings and nature. It goes without saying that ecology has an impact on the development of both social and political theory. In so doing, ecology deals with many socio-political issues and problems and simultaneously encounters other political movements and ideologies. At this point, anarchism as a major political ideology emerged in the nineteenth century has transformed itself into an important ally for political ecology and the togetherness of these two ideologies has become very instructive for both ecology and anarchism. In a similar vein, new perspectives such as poststructuralist anarchism within the anarchist theory have contributed to the development of this process. This study has seeked to describe poststructuralist anarchism as a fruitful field for enabling us to find significant opportunities in order to be able to comprehend ecological perspective. Accordingly, the study has been structured into two major parts. The first part focused on the basic characteristics of poststructuralist anarchism and pondered the position of poststructuralist anarchism within the framework of anarchism. The second part examined the problem of how poststructuralist anarchism could be read and positioned from an ecological point of view