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''Ecotage!'' was a 1972 paperback book edited by Sam Love and David Obst and published by Pocket Books. The book was a collection of ideas that had been solicited by the group Environmental Action over the previous year in preparation for the publication of the book, for using sabotage, attention-grabbing stunts, and other ideas to draw attention to environmental issues.〔Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, ''In the Wake of Violence: Image & Social Reform'' (MSU Press, 2008), ISBN 978-0870139291, (Excerpts available ) at Google Books.〕 "Ecotage" is a contraction of ecological (or economic) and sabotage. The cover of ''Ecotage!'' features a photograph of a hippie throwing a pie in the face of a business executive. The book is credited as one of the early inspirations for radical environmental activism, along with similar works such as Edward Abbey's 1975 novel ''The Monkey Wrench Gang''.〔Thomas Carl Austenfeld, Dimiter Daphinoff, Jens Herlth, eds., ''Terrorism and Narrative Practice'' (LIT Verlag Münster, 2011), ISBN 978-3643800824, p. 211. (Excerpts available ) at Google Books.〕〔("Eco-Terrorism" ), ''St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture'' (2000) .〕 The book was inspired by the actions of an individual who operated in the Chicago, Illinois area. Calling himself "The Fox", he engaged in such activities as plugging smokestacks and entering the offices of corporate executives to dump sewage on their desks.〔 In turn, some of the actions suggested in ''Ecotage!'' actually began to be carried out, particularly billboarding, when small groups in the early 1970s such as the one calling themselves the "Eco-Raiders" in Tucson, Arizona, began cutting down billboards. The term ecotage may have originated with this book;〔〔Clarence Petersen, ("Paperbacks" ), ''Chicago Tribune'', March 26, 1972 ("''Ecotage!'' ... adds a new word to the language ...").〕 the term has since passed into general use as a synonym for various direct action tactics (see also monkeywrenching). ==Publication== *Love, Sam and David Obst, eds. (1972), ''Ecotage!'' ISBN 0-671-78180-4 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ecotage!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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