Political Ecology
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Political ecology is the field where power strategies are deployed to deconstruct the unsustainable modern rationality and to mobilize social actions in the globalised world for the construction of a sustainable future founded on the... more
La naturaleza en contexto. Hacia una ecología política mexicana es una obra que ubica el quehacer de la ecología política en México y la descubre como una disciplina de gran vitalidad y enorme potencial para comprender la realidad... more
With the recent development of the Occupy Movement, public criticism of neoliberalism has climaxed since the onset of a global financial crisis in late 2008. The mobilization of protesters in cities throughout the world was preceded by... more
« Décarboner le climat pour répondre au défi économique », Kairos 18 janvier 2019 Le 19 09 18, à Louvain-la-Neuve, a eu lieu une table ronde réunissant, dans le cadre du festival « Maintenant ! », Annabelle Jacquet (Lampiris / Total),... more
Second only to the Himalayas in size, the Andes represent a fascinating region of our world. Written by regional experts and drawing on field-based endeavors of several researchers, each chapter encompasses a timely topic, from... more
Chapter Proof from the Handbook of Environmental Justice (in press), edited by Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty and Gordon Walker (Eds). Handbook on Environmental Justice. (Routledge). This chapter contributes to clarifying the nature... more
An incomplete draft of this text was published in Democracy and Nature; the final version was published as Ch. 10 of John P. Clark, _The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism_ (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2013).
This essay uses ongoing ethnographic research with olive and olive oil producers in Sicily, Italy, as a springboard to reflect on collaboration in anthropology. I provide a brief review of various approaches to collaboration in... more
Environmental ethics and political ecology are two movements of ecological thinking which both have the aim to preserve the environment against global threats. The way to look at the two fields of research though are very different... more
Environmental impacts of economic processes have become an increasingly national concern across the globe ever since the UNCED in 1992. A fundamental factor that leads to the persistence of environmental problems has been the lack of... more
While there is a growing body of knowledge on the effects of climatic and other forms of change on pastoralism in Africa, less is known about how recent policy responses and development interventions in the name of climate change and... more
The rise of the Anthropocene has created confusion in environmental politics, a field traditionally hopeful that a return to some socionatural stability was both possible and desirable. Paradoxically, while life in a warmer planet... more
Why does it seem easier to imagine the end of the world
than to see the end of capitalism? Part of the answer turns
on a rift between radical economic and ecological thought.
than to see the end of capitalism? Part of the answer turns
on a rift between radical economic and ecological thought.
In times of austerity and global environmental change, recent crises related to food (in)securities and (un)sustainabilities urge us to reposition agri-food research. We argue that there is an opportunity to develop a more critical food... more
John Bellamy Foster and his colleagues have recently argued that the project of ecosocialism should be understood in terms of a “prefigurative” and “first stage” of red-green thinkers whose insights have largely been transcended by their... more
*Published in the 2016 special edition of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art on ‘Political Ecology in East Asia’. -- What does it mean to discuss ‘political ecology’ in art and architecture now in the East Asian context? I investigate... more
In this paper I argue that we need not only to ‘decolonise’ the Anthropocene but also to ‘desecularise’ it – to be aware that in the new age of the Earth we may be coeval with gods and spirits. Drawing particularly on the work of Giles... more
This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex... more
Nicaraguan smallholder cooperative leaders working in partnership with a California-based small-scale roasting company pioneered an alternative approach to confronting the post-1999 coffee crisis. They built coffee tasting laboratories... more
The article first describes characteristics of major infrastructure projects. Second, it documents a much neglected topic in economics: that ex ante estimates of costs and benefits are often very different from actual ex post costs and... more
Transboundary Conservation Areas (TBCAs), such as ‘Parks for Peace’ which have an explicit peace objective, have been heralded for their potential to simultaneously contribute towards biodiversity conservation and peace. In a world... more
This book brings together environmental cultural studies and postgrowth economics to examine counterhegemonic narratives and radical cultural shifts sparked by the global financial crisis of 2008. Furthermore, it presents a new... more
Hanaček K., Rodríguez-Labajos B (2018). Impacts of land-use and management changes on cultural agroecosystem services and environmental conflicts—A global review,Global Environmental Change, Volume 50: 41-59. As an outcome of interactions... more
Until his early death in 1985, at age 51, the Tunisian agronomist Slaheddine el-Amami carried out a path-breaking research program at what was then the Centre de Recherche et de Génie Rural. He wrote technical studies ranging from the... more
Tinta Verde es un colectivo de comunicación socioambiental, surgido en 2008 en la ciudad de La Plata, integrado por estudiantes y graduados de periodismo, abogacía y ciencias naturales; además de colaboradores de distintas ciudades del... more
At a time when neoliberalism has become an accepted term in public debate to refer to the current state of modern societies and their political economies, Kean Birch critically analyses the conflicting theories that shape our... more
The subject of our paper is the analysis of narratives and statements about an animal, the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus adersi), which might be classified as a particular kind of cryptid, given that it has been declared by some... more
Using previously unpublished material from the LUCE archive and the State Archives in Rome, this article examines how film-making became part and parcel of the process of ‘taming’ nature in the Pontine Marshes under Mussolini’s regime.... more
This article is a manifesto for anarchist geographies, which are understood as kaleidoscopic spatialities that allow for multiple, non-hierarchical, and protean connections between autonomous entities, wherein solidarities, bonds, and... more
Abstract In this dissertation, I explore world-hegemonic competitions in the ‘Greater Mediterranean Region’ over the Long Durée. Previous studies on world-hegemonies have examined neither their ecological dimensions nor their relation to... more