Participatory visual methods as well as collaborations with artists can enhance political ecologists’ ability to know and communicate accounts of life on the land. This is particularly true in times and places where traditional research is impossible. Our project, Land, Labor, Love & Revolution, explores rural women’s perspectives of life on the land in the […]

“Todo ha cambiado y va a cambiar mas” (“Everything has changed and will continue to change further.”). With these words, Gaspar Salinas, the main collaborator in our film Xa Lyu K’aq: A World of Mountains, frames the current moment he faces as his community’s forest has already undergone a large transformation and is perhaps on […]

Adrienne: The COVID-19 pandemic proved a difficult time for educators. Many of us were tasked with teaching students who were experiencing extreme challenges such as sickness, increased household responsibilities, and the stresses of trying to stay on their degree completion timelines with growing global uncertainties. As stay-at-home orders lifted and in-person teaching resumed, I noticed […]

Over the past decade, I have used participatory visual methods to explore socio‑environmental change in contexts of land conflict and struggles for more sustainable and just food systems. Working with a Tanzanian artist, I have co‑created paintings that engaged farmers and pastoralists to varying degrees: sometimes participants held the brush painted with us, sometimes they […]

Introducción A lo largo de Argentina, las asambleas socioambientales se movilizan para enfrentar el extractivismo en sus distintas formas. Son grupos de ciudadanos autoconvocados – o vecinos – que buscan detener el avance de industrias y actividades nocivas sobre sus territorios. Trabajando desde principios de horizontalidad y autonomía, las asambleas socioambientales exploran un amplio repertorio […]

Emotions are a foundational part of our existence and affect how we experience and navigate conditions of life. Indeed, as shown in the growing field of emotional political ecologies, emotions are both shaped by and shape environmental change (Dutta 2020; Rusansky 2021; Sultana 2020). Yet, researchers, including political ecologists, often continue to depict the world […]

Introduction Across Argentina, socio-environmental assemblies mobilize to contest extractivism in its different forms. These are groups of self-convened neighbors – or vecinos – who seek ways to stop the advancement of harmful industries and activities onto their territories. Working from principles of horizontality and autonomy, the socio-environmental assemblies explore a wide repertoire of actions ranging […]