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Indigenous communities frequently face displacement due to conservation efforts. Consequently, much of the academic literature focuses on how indigenous communities resist such displacement. However, this article takes issue with this narrative, instea…

The Bukit Tigapuluh forest landscape in Tebo, Indonesia, has become an arena of contestation involving indigenous peoples, migrant communities, corporations, NGOs, the state, and non-human species. This study examines how competing claims over forests …

In Mexico, severe and pervasive water pollution has sparked on-going socio-environmental conflicts. Successive government administrations have failed to contemplate enhancing control particularly of industrial pollution sources. To what extent can thes…

Successive interventions in South Sumatra’s peat swamps including logging, transmigration, plantations, conservation, and restoration have led to changing land use permits, boundaries, canal systems, different land use classifications, and prohibitions…

This article complicates the dominant narratives of territorial conflicts between indigenous communities and mestizo campesinos in Nicaragua’s Bosawas Biosphere Reserve. I suggest that the framing of these conflicts as “interethnic” obscures how class …