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Various grassroots initiatives that have emerged in recent decades reduce our dependence on large-scale industrial agriculture. They decouple food value from volatile markets through close producer-consumer relations, displaying potential for food syst…

In this article I place into dialogue the challenges of the circular economy (CE) with Political Ecology by using the notion of autonomy. I examine two circular food initiatives in the capital city region of Brussels, Belgium, a cooperative supermarket…

This study explores how social media analytics (SMA) advances political ecology (PE) through a case study on Polish discourse around waste-to-energy facilities (March 2020–June 2023). Using a social media listening platform (SMLP) for sentiment analysi…

China’s urban development is undergoing a critical transition from expansion to redevelopment. Justice is an important issue during urban redevelopment, particularly for millions of tenants in informal settlements megacities. Using critical political e…

Researchers have long noted connections between the creation of property in colonial contexts and environmental and ecological transformations. These links are most clear in settler colonial contexts, especially where property formation operated accord…

At the end of 2019, the Maestrazgo-Els Ports initiative was presented publicly with the aim of creating an international ecotourism destination of 550,000 hectares located between the provinces of Castellón, Teruel, and Tarragona, Spain. In less than s…

To contribute to food-system democratization and its transformation towards socio-ecological sustainability, various civil-society actors jointly organized a national citizens’ assembly in Switzerland in 2022. For six months, 80 randomly selected Swiss…

This article explores an experimental approach to mine closure planning and community participation that foregrounds the dialogue between technical and legal approaches to the mine and the knowledge and values of affected Indigenous communities. Locate…

Large-scale infrastructure projects often include government promises and visions designed to win the approval and support of affected populations and to attract much-needed funding for implementation. The promise of infrastructure leads to changes in …

Over the past 30 years, participatory forestry reforms have been attempted across much of the world. Ostensibly, these have been attempts at rolling back the enclosures of forests that characterized the colonial era. However, a vast and still-growing b…

In recent decades, there has been a shift both globally and within Australia towards community engagement in protected area management. In Australia, this has manifested in Aboriginal participation and decision-making in a range of protected areas. One…

This article analyzes how autonomous more-than-human political communities emerge in practice. We study an agro-ecosystem in the Catalan Sub-Pyrenees, where a peasant land use cooperative runs a regenerative farm. Through interviews and observations, w…

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…