{"product_id":"direct-action-as-conceptual-art-an-examination-of-the-role-of-the-communique-for-ecodefense-hardcover","title":"Direct Action as Conceptual Art?: An Examination of the Role of the Communiqué for Ecodefense - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAvi Brisman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers an avenue for understanding the parameters, scope, meanings, and impacts of environmental protest. Focusing on ecodefense, it explores the significance of the communiqué (the written explanation of the reasons for an act of ecodefense), comparing the communiqué to written texts in Conceptual art. It presents and seeks to evaluate the following analogy: \u003cstrong\u003eact of ecodefense: communiqué: work of conceptual art: written declaration\/statement\u003c\/strong\u003e. By considering the communiqué in this light, this book helps us better comprehend the rationales for \"radical environmentalism\" undertaken for the purposes of reducing environmental harms, natural resource exploitation, and animal abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] unique and original contribution to [the study] of ... environmental protest. By comparing the written statements of Conceptual artists with the communiqu?s of ecodefenders, Brisman adds an unexpected analytical sophistication to our understanding of direct action. Can environmental protest be reconceptualised as Conceptual art? Maybe not exactly, but exploring the parallels certainly unlocks interesting and hitherto undiscussed similarities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eMurray Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor in Criminology, University of Sydney Law School, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As the immiseration of the world through capitalist exploitation and climate catastrophe accelerates, we'll need every strategy to salvage planetary life. This provocative analysis of the communiqu? demonstrates the value of attending to how eco-saboteurs make visible larger, world-destroying structures of violence. Brisman's reading of art against environmental activism enriches our conception of direct action as a shocking, urgent interruption of the status quo; ... a timely contribution to the conversation about how to change the seemingly unchangeable.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eLuke Fidler\u003c\/strong\u003e, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Southern California, USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book advances criminological understandings of environmentalists' radical actions and imaginaries in exciting, new, and creative directions. By comparing the communiqu?s accompanying activists' direct actions to written texts in Conceptual art, Brisman foregrounds the importance of meaning as articulated and conveyed by activists themselves. A truly artful piece.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Anna Di Ronco\u003c\/strong\u003e, Associate Professor of Legal Studies, University of Bologna, Italy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book offers an avenue for understanding the parameters, scope, meanings, and impacts of environmental protest. Focusing on ecodefense, it explores the significance of the communiqu? (the written explanation of the reasons for an act of ecodefense), comparing the communiqu? to written texts in Conceptual art. It presents and seeks to evaluate the following analogy: \u003cstrong\u003eact of ecodefense: communiqu?: work of conceptual art: written declaration\/statement\u003c\/strong\u003e. By considering the communiqu? in this light, this book helps us better comprehend the rationales for \"radical environmentalism\" undertaken for the purposes of reducing environmental harms, natural resource exploitation, and animal abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvi Brisman\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor of Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvi Brisman is Professor at Eastern Kentucky University, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47665021354205,"sku":"9783031766336","price":66.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/dVm6nCEn-79783031766336.webp?v=1773915147","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/direct-action-as-conceptual-art-an-examination-of-the-role-of-the-communique-for-ecodefense-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}