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Radical environmental activists are inextricably entangled with the nature they are defending and this entanglement gives rise to profound moments of connection with nature that fundamentally alter how they look at the world and their place within nature–human relationships. Radical environmentalism is a contest about the meaning of nature and the social construction of activism, deviance, and harm. Activist campaigns are fought in physical and imaginative geographies, where what is deviant and what is criminal are fluid concepts; the activists themselves dwell in a wild nature that gives rise to distinct social explanations for how they and society generally should interact with the rest of nature or the more-than-human world (see Cianchi 2015: 32).
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Cianchi, J. (2016). Radical Environmentalism and the Role of Nature. In: Potter, G., Nurse, A., Hall, M. (eds) The Geography of Environmental Crime. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53843-7_3
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