Scholars enliven the academy by bridging critical academic pursuits with real-world influence. Through the lens of structuralism and the method of decentering solely human freedom, Sharon Krause has contributed valuably to political theory and, specifically, environmental domination and governance research. This work broadens political theory by transposing moral and political inclusion to nonhumans beyond merely agency. Centrally, it compels readers to engage with the dignity and power of nonhuman parts of nature that are, themselves, political actors.

Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom deepens the contemporary discourse in environmental politics and democratic theory by delving into questions of domination that not only extend to but center on nonhumans or “Earth others.” Krause's attention towards the “specter” of domination by humans over the nonhuman natural world is timely in a warming world of evermore consequential anthropocentric environmental degradation, increasing conflict, and democratic recession.

The seminal figures in environmental domination literature (e.g., Bookchin, Plumwood, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marcuse, Leiss, Luke, and Biro) all appeal to privileging the human as a figure being dominated or taking precedence over the nonhuman world. In Eco-Emancipation, though, Kraus