Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
En este artículo analizamos dos metodologías de pedagogía transformadora dirigidas a jóvenes de las provincias de Sevilla y Huelva (España), qué buscaron suscitar reflexiones críticas sobre sus prácticas alimentarias. Examinamos los resultados de las i…
Political ecologists are increasingly interested in the dynamics of power and authority where mining and conservation converge. We contribute to this emerging literature by applying an ‘actor-oriented’ approach to explore the creation of protected area…
Degrowth and food sovereignty movements share commitments to social-ecological transformation, democracy and the flourishing of human and non-human life. Encounters between the two movements have been relatively limited, however. This contribution is b…
Communities in Darjeeling town have been experiencing and coping with water scarcity for decades. Developmental history points towards fragmented governance and inefficient infrastructural interventions, which have led to uneven access to water defined…
According to political ecologists, today’s major challenge in environmental policy revolves around rethinking the ontology of the human-nature divide, which assumes “humans” to be fundamentally different from and superior to “nature”, contributing to e…
I engage with two recent articles published in the Journal of Political Ecology, both of which critique political ecology engagements with ontological and epistemological complexities. These complexities might be distilled into the idea that how ‘the w…
On United States public lands, large-scale structural capitalocentric valuations are at odds with the embodied non-monetary valuations expressed by nature-based recreators. Valuing United States Forest Service lands through a capitalocentric lens does …
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In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change. We carry …
Some conceptual thinking about human-wildlife relations has lacked translations into empirical studies with an in-depth enquiry into social, cultural, economic and ecological aspects. This study explores human-elephant relations in a cohabited landscap…
While wolves are often described as ‘ecological engineers’, this article reframes the image of this predator as a socioecological engineer. Adopting a more-than-human political ecology perspective, I highlight the imbrication of wolf agency with the po…
What is so-called ‘green’ extractivism and where did it come from? The introduction to this Special Section examines the origins and implications of the concept, linking it to a long history of exploitation, dispossession and (neo)colonialism under the…
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The emission of pollutants from industrial, extractive (mining and hydrocarbons), and corporate agricultural activities exacerbates environmental degradation, endangering sustainable living conditions for humans and more-than-humans. Growing concerns r…
Some agencies tend to view wildlife as resources to harvested and potential threats to be controlled in the name of public safety. Due to a long history of hunting for conservation, this view intersects with the structures and ways the agencies work. H…
The brown bear reintroduction program in the Pyrenees was launched in 1996, once their population was considered extinct in the central parts of the mountain range. The increasing number of livestock casualties caused by bear attacks forced the public …
The Coachella Valley sits at the geographic periphery of Los Angeles. Despite its physical and political marginality, the Coachella Valley is a key site of agricultural production in Southern California. Access to water is essential for ensuring the re…
Water scarcity in the Western US, through the lens of political ecology, can be understood as inextricably shaped by power dynamics, governance structures, and legal practices of resource allocation. Water allocation in the region is determined largely…
Energy colonialism is an essential, yet scarcely theorized concept for understanding how past, present and future energy systems are shaped by colonial or neocolonial power dynamics, imaginaries, discourses, and practices. These perspectives are import…
This article examines how drought intersects with long-standing issues of ecological degradation and social inequity caused by water extraction. I focus on the case of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and its ongoing impacts on communities and ecosystems in th…
The use of tropes is a defining feature of resource regulation and is fundamental to both the way legal theories have evolved and to the practical, localized interpretations and implementations of law. This article offers a discursive study of the “wat…
If constructed as planned, the Sites Reservoir Project will add roughly 1.85 billion m3 (1.5 million acre-feet) of storage capacity to California’s water system. Per project proponents, however, the reservoir complex should be understood as infrastruct…