Category: Spanish

Rewilding is increasingly popular as a new paradigm for conservation, advocating the return of an autonomous nature, the ‘wild’, in closer coexistence with people. This approach resonates with transboundary conservation initiatives like the Kavango-Zam…

Research on degrowth has developed a strong conceptual vocabulary for envisioning alternatives, centered on life-making and collective autonomy within ecological and societal limits. Looking into the past and engaging with anarchism, we argue, can furt…

This article examines nostalgia and its political force around the Zayandehrud River in central Iran. Once seen as perennial and life-giving, the river is now dry for much of the year, turning its absent flow into an object of longing. This reflects a …

Conservation interventions have historically been guided by Western ontologies and epistemologies that separate humans from nature. Reflecting this, the natural sciences have been dominant in decision-making related to conservation, while the social sc…

This article questions dominant narratives that attribute conflicts and migration in the Sahel primarily to factors such as ethnicity, climate change, or poverty. Instead, we highlight land dispossession as a central, yet insufficiently examined, drive…

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Small, unevenly financialized companies are now shaping the development of new cobalt and nickel processing plants in the United States (U.S.). as the country seeks to secure its critical mineral supplies. Building on political ecology theories, this a…

Dominant biocultural conservation discourses on human–elephant conflict in India and elsewhere often reduce local communities to a victim/perpetrator binary. Even seemingly divergent models— fortress conservation, and rights-based approaches— reproduce…

The role of the state in social participation related to extractive projects in Latin America is relevant topic for political ecologists, because it intervenes and shapes the relationship between society and nature. The state is often accused of having…

Over the past decade, thousands of centuries-old olive trees in the Southern Italian region of Apulia dried out and the whole olive farming sector have teetered on the brink. Despite having been framed, by the phytosanitary authorities, as an exclusive…

Este artículo examina por qué las políticas de protección ambiental no han logrado transformar las estructuras de control privado sobre los recursos hídricos consolidadas desde el siglo XVI, analizando el caso del Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Tabur…

Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork on the Galapagos Islands, conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021), this article argues that the multiple geographical imaginaries of the archipelago as a ‘laboratory’ or ‘pristine nature’ that are …

This article draws on conversations and ethnographic observations with activists in Granada, Andalusia, as they learn to respond ‘otherwise’ to the socioecological challenges of the Dílar and Monachil rivers. They inhabit the disorienting space opened …

This article examines the impacts of the energy transition industry from an environmental justice perspective, proposing to understand supply chain metabolism through environmental conflicts and enhancing socio-metabolic analysis. By revisiting the con…