Category: Spanish

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…