Damian White is Professor of Social Theory and Environmental Studies and previously Dean of Liberal Arts at The Rhode Island School of Design, USA. He is the author of Bookchin - A Critical Appraisal (2008); Environments, Nature and Social Theory (2016) and the editor of Technonatures:Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first Century (2010) and Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader (2011).