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Conflicts between indigenous people and state authorities over conservation projects are increasing in many parts of the world, as traditional indigenous territories mostly coincide with areas that hold 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Although both in…

The persistence of neoliberal food systems has often been explained with reference to political economy dynamics or the market and political activities of agri-food companies. This article approaches the issue from a different level of analysis and ask…

Estimates that 60% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin, combined with recent high-profile zoonotic outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, have the world scrambling to understand, predict, and prevent zoonotic disease risks and outbrea…

The European Union is pushing for critical mineral self-sufficiency to meet its goal of transitioning to a low-carbon society, and also supporting strategic defense objectives. The raw materials needed for this transition are creating so-called ‘green …

The intimate links between agri-food systems and degrowth economics has only recently been addressed in the extant scholarship, much of which centers on the contributions of “food self-provisioning” (FSP) as a type of (often urban and peri-urban) pract…

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Drawing upon critical social theory and fine-grained empirical observations, political ecologists have long argued against hegemonic stories of the environment, development and capitalism. This commitment is held across the wide range of approaches in …

We argue that an “actually existing alternative” to the industrial food system can be found in the Amadiba community in South Africa. Like other indigenous food systems, Amadiba traditional foodways are underpinned by principles such as interconnection…

This Special Section explores the plurality of professional practice in the environment and development sector, and centers the possibilities this offers for more transformative and just futures. We bring together and foreground a uniquely (feminist) p…

As international environmental research for development organizations and their funders continue to build a requirement to ‘mainstream’ gender equality into their programming, disquiet surrounding gender expertise has emerged among those who bring refl…

Institutions and frontier dynamics describe apparent opposites, yet they are mutually constitutive. While institutions are characterized by rules, regulation, and order, frontier dynamics represent destruction of existing rules, the elimination of esta…

The largest science publishing corporations, including Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Sage, are key partners for the oil, gas, and coal industries insofar as they distribute scientific research and data that facilitate fossil fuel…

Political ecology has been slow to examine solar panel factories, even though manufacturing lower-carbon technologies sits at the crossroads of climate change mitigation and global markets. Influenced by environmental and energy justice, this article t…

This essay broaches the topic of people who are fully consumers for their daily provisioning, yet are disadvantaged by being poor, non-white, immigrant, women, and so forth; and it asks how they are experiencing and acting on the supposed “transitions”…

To advance Environmental Justice (EJ), it is crucial to analyze underlying power relations in conservation conflicts from a decolonized perspective, focusing on the sense of justice of marginalized groups. We analyze the discourse and practices deploye…

  

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The land-water dichotomy plays a key role in the prevailing global climate change adaptation (CCA) policy discourse for tropical coastal areas. This dichotomy is implicitly informed by a land centered conception of property which regards areas that flu…

This article explores the politics of producing knowledge about drought in a suburban region of southern California: Orange County. Based on nine months of ethnographic research with the assistant specialists that keep the Loma Ridge Global Change Expe…

This article argues that climate change and its mitigation risk threatening Indigenous Peoples’ access to land and their ability to maintain their way of life. Focusing on the experiences of the Indigenous Sámi reindeer herders of the Swedish part of S…

The Argyle diamond mine, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, ceased production in late 2020 after 37 years of operations and producing 865 million carats of rough diamonds. Opening in 1983, it was the first major diamond-mining operation…

During the peak of its operation, Century mine, in Australia’s western Queensland, was the third largest lead, zinc and silver mine in the world. The mine has had a turbulent history. It was resisted by the indigenous Traditional Owners, and then an un…

Traditional customs and rituals that continue to exist in the rural peripheries of industrialized countries may contain living elements that ‘postfigure’ alternative ways of living. We propose a new line of inquiry on postfiguration, at the intersectio…

South Africa’s environmental movement has been described as “fractured, disparate and diverse” (Death, 2014: 1232). This article considers the Life After Coal campaign’s work in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga to examine the challenges faced by environmental ca…