Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
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The “slow violence” arising from mining tailings in Chile spreads cumulatively, slowly and invisibly over time and space. Even those affected are not necessarily aware of it. Toxic substances, which tailings contain in high concentrations, spread easil…
This article explores how different forms of adaptation governance in Costa Rica shape subjectivities and adaptation capacities in smallholder farms. The country presently has a neoliberal-welfare state structure that stems from the progressive transit…
The looming ecological crisis demands an urgent rethinking of possibilities within our surroundings. This article examines the practice of bamboo-shoot fermentation in India’s North-Eastern Region (NER) and explores its connections to sustainability, f…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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 …
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,…
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…