Extinction rebellion and the multi-order world: Ordering beyond the state

This article contributes to the Special Forum ″Revisiting the multi-order world″ by directing attention to the ordering dynamics of non-state actors. Focusing on Extinction Rebellion as a transnational movement organized around a distinct post-apocalyptic vision, the article examines how perceptions of disorder generate processes of self-governance within ordering domains. As climate activism becomes increasingly securitized, disruptive practices are often interpreted as means of pursuing political objectives and managed accordingly. Drawing on an ideal-type framework, the article instead analyses civil disobedience and regenerative culture as processes of self-governance through which Extinction Rebellion sustains collective agency. In doing so, the article distinguishes between disorder as a condition between orders and disorder as it is perceived within them, showing how practices that appear disordering externally function as processes of self-governance in response to perceived disorder internally.