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Beyond growth in food systems: Cultivating seeds of change 

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-12-01 Categories: English · Spanish

The special issue Post-growth food systems for a just social-ecological transition within planetary boundaries explores post-growth and degrowth approaches that advocate for sufficiency, care, regeneration, and the democratization of food systems. It s…

The milpa’s Maya Ixil caretakers, multispecies biocultural diversity conservation, and designs for more-than-human abundance

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-11-30 Categories: English · Spanish

This article draws upon multispecies ethnographic fieldwork with the Maya Ixil in Iximulew (Guatemala) to identify a model of biodiversity conservation that decolonizes food systems in situ through biocultural practices of care work with more-than-huma…

Social history of industry, between environmental violence and working-class ecology. A case study on the chemical plant in Spinetta Marengo, Italy

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-11-11 Categories: English · Spanish

The Spinetta Marengo chemical plant, located in the city of Alessandria, Piedmont, is one of the most important industrial facilities still operating in northern Italy. Now almost 120 years old, it is the only perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) factory in…

Review of Matthew Archer. 2024. Unsustainable: Measurement, reporting, and the limits of corporate sustainability

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-11-04 Categories: English · Spanish

      

Review of Anitra Nelson with editorial adviser Vincent Liegey. 2025. Routledge Handbook of Degrowth.

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-10-27 Categories: English · Spanish

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Narratives of invasion and intimacy: Transborder relations with tamarisk in the Chihuahuan Desert

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-10-23 Categories: English · Spanish

Tamarix spp., also known as salt cedar or tamarisk, has garnered a reputation in the United States as an invasive plant, with widespread policy and research advocating for its eradication in the Chihuahuan Desert region that spans the United States and…

Participation and contextual equity in REDD implementation: A qualitative case-study from Gola, Sierra Leone

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-10-20 Categories: English · Spanish

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a global framework that promotes climate, social, and biodiversity goals through tropical forest management. An ongoing challenge is integrating equity for “full and effective” part…

From peasant women to social change: The politicization of identities and materialities toward socio-ecological transformations

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-10-18 Categories: English · Spanish

Peasant movements are key to thinking and acting creatively in food and socio-ecological transformation processes. Drawing bridges between feminist political ecology and critical ecofeminisms, this article analyzes Chile’s National Association of Rural…

Shifting waters: The dynamics of water grabbing in Lake Toba through aquaculture and tourism development

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-10-06 Categories: English · Spanish

This article examines the dynamics of water grabbing in Lake Toba, Indonesia, focusing on how corporate aquaculture and emerging tourism developments have reshaped access to and control over water resources. Drawing on previous studies, policy analysis…

Indigenous territorial rights in the Global Biodiversity Framework: Creating a third pathway to 30×30

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-10-01 Categories: English · Spanish

At the conclusion of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COP15) in Montreal, Canada in December 2022, many rights-holders and allies commended the inclusion of language respecting Indigenous rights and know…

City of sanctuary: Exploring multispecies democracy in a post-growth food future

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-09-14 Categories: English · Spanish

This article grapples with two pressing problems endemic to capitalist agriculture: the exploitation of nonhuman animals and the enclosure of the agricultural commons. How might a post-growth food transition support animal liberation and restore access…

Review of Esther Sánchez-Pardo & María Porras Sánchez (eds.). 2024. Myth and environmentalism: Arts of resilience for a damaged planet

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-09-13 Categories: English · Spanish

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Review of Kallis G., Paulson, S., D’Alisa, G. & Demaria, F. 2020. The case for degrowth.

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-09-13 Categories: English · Spanish

     

Racialized land tenure and the colonial present: Political ecologies of dispossession in Northeast Brazil

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-09-10 Categories: English · Spanish

The article introduces the concept of racialized land tenure to illuminate how colonial land governance systems in Brazil continue to shape dispossession and ecological degradation in post-colonial contexts. Drawing from historical and ethnographic res…

Maquiagem: Concealing the politicized nature of urban disaster and housing policy in Petrópolis, Brazil

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-09-10 Categories: English · Spanish

Under the intertwined environmental crises of capitalist urbanization, we argue that policies on housing and disaster are merging in order to (further) conceal widespread socio-ecological degradation and disaster risk creation. Following two extensive …

What brought us forward: Ciulaku women and their fight for land rights in Taiwan

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-09-05 Categories: English · Spanish

Drawing on ethnographic research and oral histories, the article highlights how Ciulaku women play a pivotal role in preserving and transmitting collective memories of displacement. These memories, often rooted in personal and intergenerational trauma,…

“We have that vision of the future”: Indigenous womxn’s resistance as environmental protection in the U.S. Southwest

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-08-31 Categories: English · Spanish

Widespread recognition of the effectiveness of Indigenous land stewardship has largely been met by attempts to instrumentalize Indigenous environmental governance in the service of global conservation goals. Instead, and in response to calls to decolon…

Sensibilisation: The role of awareness raising in biodiversity conservation in Kanaky/New Caledonia

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-08-17 Categories: English · Spanish

Sensibilisation is a French term often translated to “awareness raising” but which encompasses a broader set of practices and philosophies intended to foster behavior change among target audiences. For those working on biodiversity conservation, sensib…

Connecting urban green infrastructure and environmental justice in South Africa: Integrating social access, ecology, and design

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-08-14 Categories: English · Spanish

Green Infrastructure (GI) connects across a city’s urban fabric and exhibits multiple meanings. It inevitably ties to questions about environmental justice. In South Africa, the historical legacy of colonialism and apartheid has left deep scars and the…

Commodification, labor, abstraction: Three key concepts to understand the many-headed hydra of biodiversity offsetting

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-07-27 Categories: English · Spanish

Natural capital approaches to mitigating the impacts of construction projects, in which environmental harms and mitigations are calculated and then traded, have become dominant features of contemporary conservation. They are subject to considerable cri…

A harms-based political ecology: Understanding harms through the wildlife trade

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-07-23 Categories: English · Spanish

In this article, we examine how political ecology can benefit from greater engagement with green criminology’s focus on harms. We do so by developing a harms-based political ecology, which is a useful lens through which to analyze global environmental …

Review of Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G. 2025. The rise of necro/narco citizenship: Belonging and dying in the Southwest North American Region

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-07-23 Categories: English · Spanish

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From rebel governance to energy and environmental policies in a post-war setting: The case of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-07-22 Categories: English · Spanish

A vast body of literature has established how armed conflicts and wars are harmful to the environment, and it is generally assumed that peace should be beneficial to it. This article investigates the understudied environmental and energy discourse and …

Review of Cruz-Torres, María L. 2023. Pink gold: Women, shrimp, and work in Mexico.

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-07-15 Categories: English · Spanish

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“Meat-me”: From flesh machines to individualities. A case for an anti-speciesist degrowth

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-06-29 Categories: English · Spanish

Degrowth, a leading paradigm addressing our socio-ecological crisis, criticizes the highly destructive animal factory-farming industry. However, it does not challenge the commodification of sentient beings and the underlying system that perpetuates the…

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