9 / December / 2025
By: Gina D'Alesandro
8 / November / 2025
By: Mariana Calcagni G
19 / September / 2025
By: Taylor Steelman
19 / September / 2025
By: Eva Navarro
17 / September / 2025
By: The author of this piece prefers to remain anonymous
All activist contributions
17 / September / 2025
Abstract This article draws upon multispecies ethnographic fieldwork with the Maya Ixil in Iximulew (Guatemala) to identify a model of biodiversity conservation that decolonizes food systems in situ through biocultural practices of care work with more-than-human others. Built in reciprocity, beyond the species model, the Milpa Maya Ixil engineers a multispecies food system, rematriates an […]
By: Gina D'Alesandro
17 / September / 2025
Abstract Peasant movements are key to thinking and acting creatively in food and socioecological transformation processes. Drawing bridges between feminist political ecology and critical ecofeminisms, this article analyzes Chile’s National Association of Rural and Indigenous Women (ANAMURI) as key agents of social change. The study follows a qualitative methodology based on an analysis of ANAMURI’s […]
By: Mariana Calcagni G
17 / September / 2025
Abstract This article grapples with two pressing problems endemic to capitalist agriculture: the exploitation of nonhuman animals and the enclosure of the agricultural commons. How might a post-growth food transition support animal liberation and restore access to the means of food production? Care farming, an international paradigm integrating agriculture and healthcare through the therapeutic use […]
By: Taylor Steelman
17 / September / 2025
Abstract Degrowth, a leading paradigm addressing our socio-ecological crisis, criticizes the highly destructive animal factory-farming industry. However, it does not challenge the commodification of sentient beings and the underlying system that perpetuates the oppression of the “less-than-human”. Animals-as-food, reduced to “flesh machines,” are exploited with institutional legitimacy rooted in societal belief systems. Drawing upon posthumanist […]
By: Eva Navarro
17 / September / 2025
Abstract As a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, I’ve travelled through rural villages, olive groves, and grazing fields across the West Bank where Palestinians live under the violent realities of Israeli apartheid and occupation. Drawing from on-the-ground experiences of protective presence and direct action in Palestine, this essay details how militarised farming outposts, firing […]
By: The author of this piece prefers to remain anonymous
17 / September / 2025
Abstract 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 system transformations towards post-growth. Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an organizational form among them. While most CSAs cover short distances between farmers and consumers […]
By: Sarah Steinegger, Nora Katharina Faltmann
17 / September / 2025
Abstract 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 residents learned about and deliberated on the food system. They then co-formulated and democratically approved 126 food-policy recommendations. Employing a political agroecology approach, […]
By: Inea Lehner, Samira Amos, Philippe Mathys, and Johanna Jacobi
17 / September / 2025
Abstract 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 asks: how do the everyday lives of people sustain neoliberal foodscapes? The article utilizes an Everyday Political […]
By: Aisha Ismail
17 / September / 2025
Abstract 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) practice nurturing communal autonomy, healthy/organic food, and environmental sustainability. While FSP within Western Europe is often celebrated […]
By: Mladen Domazet and Rowan Lubbock
17 / September / 2025
Abstract 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, sacredness, gratitude, abundance and collectivism, rather than growth or profit. The Amadiba community has struggled to protect […]
By: Brittany Kesselman and Sinegugu Zukulu
17 / September / 2025
Abstract This paper works with the idea that radical solutions in agri-food systems require multiple ways of knowing soils beyond the dominant scientific practices. Using a relational lens that invites us to think with soils, this paper lifts our gaze to human-soil relationships in creating post-growth food systems. In the context of a grassroots initiative […]
By: Susanna Barrineau
17 / September / 2025
Resumen En este artículo analizamos dos metodologías de pedagogía transformadora dirigidas a jóvenes de las provincias de Sevilla y Huelva (España), que buscaron suscitar reflexiones críticas sobre sus prácticas alimentarias. Examinamos los resultados de las investigaciones participativas del programa “Ecohuertos Escolares” y la creación del fanzine “Come y Habla”, respectivamente con niñxs y estudiantes universitarixs, […]
By: Léa Lamotte, Paulino Ramos-Ballesteros, Rodrigo Peña-Cabra y Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel
17 / September / 2025
Activists, academics, and practitioners collectively explored alliance formation between degrowth and food sovereignty movements in a workshop held at the 9th International Degrowth Conference in Zagreb, Croatia.
By: Michaela Pixová, Julia Spanier, Leonie Guerrero Lara, Jacob Smessaert, Katie Sandwell, Logan Strenchock, Inea Lehner, Jan Feist, Lisa Reichelt, Christina Plank
17 / September / 2025
(Introducción al número especial ‘The colonialities of climate change and action’) Resumen En esta introducción al número especial sobre las colonialidades del cambio climático y las acciones por el clima presentamos un mapa conceptual que nos ayuda a relacionarnos de forma crítica con los planteamientos existentes en torno a cómo pensar y actuar en el […]
By: Nelsa De la Hoz, Diego Silva-Garzón, Nathalia Hernández-Vidal, Laura Gutiérrez-Escobar, Martina Hasenfratz, y Benno Fladvad [*]
17 / September / 2025
Food systems must undergo radical changes for a post-growth world. This transformation cannot solely focus on agricultural production; it requires a concomitant shift of food waste systems. One movement currently spurring transformation in food waste is community composting. In this visual essay, we provide an overview of community composting in the U.S., zooming into a […]
By: Zachary Joseph Czuprynski and Rebecca Marie Serratos
17 / September / 2025
Our graphic grew out of a project called ‘Decolonising food for health and sustainability' in Johannesburg, South Africa. The project recognised that being able to grow the indigenous plants that people traditionally used for food and medicine could help communities to enjoy greater food sovereignty and more control over their own health. The graphic seeks to tell the complex story of the historical and ongoing negative impacts of colonialism in a simple and powerful way. The accompanying text explains some of the ways colonialism disrupted Indigenous people’s relationship with plants, and how these processes and power relations continue to underpin South Africa’s unhealthy and unsustainable food system.
By: Claire Rousell and Brittany Kesselman
17 / September / 2025
Ways of living and knowing: being a foreign student in San Cristobal Island In the Anthropocene, islands are often seen as highly vulnerable places facing climate change impacts, especially sea level rise and natural disasters. However, a growing literature aims to transform our perception of islands through the lenses of ‘more-than-wet’ ontologies (Peters and Steinberg, […]
By: Brecken Butterfield , Lauren Clement, Laurette Compass, Djuna Day-Booth, Victoria Jeffreys, Carmen Marshall, Elliot Miller, Clara Smartt, Natalie Smith, Emilie Dupuits [1]
17 / September / 2025
Peasant communities in the Intag river valley in Ecuador have been resisting large-scale mining for decades and, thus, have built up a local solidary economy as a livelihood alternative.
By: Miriam Lang
17 / September / 2025
Abstract The colonialism inside today’s practices of energy transition becomes evident both from experiences of close listening to participants in grassroots struggles over extractivism and livelihood and from an engaged examination of the histories of energy and transition. In turn, greater awareness of the colonial nature of energy transition can fruitfully feed into movement-building around climate change. One key […]
By: Larry Lohmann
17 / September / 2025
The article showcases the nature of climate colonialism by examining the transitions in heirloom seed conservation practices in the context of climate change. Insights for this article are drawn from an action research project implemented among heirloom seed keepers and small-scale farmers in Tamil Nadu, India.
By: Sunil D. Santha, Devisha Sasidevan, Sowmya B., Afla C.P., Anna Steffy, K.J., Dhanya Kolathur, Ghurshida Jabeen M. K., Atul Raman
17 / September / 2025
Abstract Several governmental and nongovernmental institutions in Guatemala have been tasked with tackling the country’s problem of food insecurity. Although food insecurity has a variety of causes, the issue of climate change is beginning to attract initiatives to address the problem. Thus, Guatemalan institutions have begun utilizing climate services (CSs) to provide climate projections (six […]
By: Harold Bellanger17 / September / 2025
Abstract Public debates about climate futures increasingly oscillate between the extremes of catastrophism and cruel eco-optimism. While different social imaginaries of climate change are part of sociological debates, to date this specific dynamic has not been extensively explored. By examining recent examples of climate change coverage and analyzing new ideological trends such as “apocalyptic optimism,” […]
By: Lukas Stolz
17 / September / 2025
Mexico City's municipal "green" bonds (MGBs), issued in 2016 and 2018, financed two water infrastructure projects embedded in the city's hydrosocial cycle (the reciprocal transformation of water and society). The issuance of the MGBs created an entanglement of "green" debt and water circulation, which the city government touted as a successful "green" intervention for climate action. However, this article argues that the MGBs also masked climate injustices and colonial legacies that were already prevalent in Mexico City's water circulation infrastructure, affecting aspects including socio-economic and gender issues. To substantiate this claim, this article adopts climate coloniality and climate justice as analytical lenses and urban political ecology as a methodology to critically examine the "green" label epistemologies and climate action narratives that justify the issuance of MGBs linked to water infrastructure projects.
By: Héctor Herrera
17 / September / 2025
Abstract This article examines the misrecognition of climate refugees as a form of climate coloniality, through the lens of decolonial environmental justice (EJ). I address two research questions: (1) Why is climate refugeehood a matter of decolonial EJ? (2) How can decolonial EJ contribute to overcoming the colonial impasse that prevents the expansion of the notion of a […]
By: Francesca Rosignoli
17 / September / 2025
El texto presentado a continuación es un ejercicio de escritura creativa, que relata el esfuerzo de crear un espacio para compartir y soñar los futuros que queremos como mujeres jóvenes desde nuestros cuerpos y territorios biodiversos. Hablamos del encuentro de mujeres jovenes que se llevó a cabo a mediados del 2019 en la reserva de la biosfera del choco andino en Ecuador. Las mujeres que participamos en este encuentro somos mujeres que luchamos por la defensa de la vida en los diferentes espacios que habitamos. La mayoría de nosotras formamos parte de la Red de Jóvenes del Chocó Andino (RJCA), y además trabajamos en temas relacionados a la ecología, los feminismos y la descolonialidad.
By: Diana Troya* y Anais Cordova Paez
17 / September / 2025
Conocimos a Enrique Castro por nuestro trabajo en el proyecto EPICC (Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains (EPICC): Comparing multi-level governance for Biodiversity Protection and Climate Action in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia). Enrique fue pequeño minero artesanal en Taraira (Vaupés) y se ha dedicado a luchar contra la gran minería en esa región y a colaborar con las comunidades en la organización, legalización y formalización de su pequeña minería tradicional. Creemos que las reflexiones de Enrique sobre esta lucha pueden ser de inspiración para los movimientos socio-ambientales.
By: Enrique Castro [1], Paula Andrea Sánchez García [2], Barbara Schröter [3]
17 / September / 2025
Este escrito busca divulgar algunos hallazgos iniciales de una investigación [1] más amplia, titulada Diálogos caribeño-latinoamericanos por la justicia climática: Entramados comunitarios y soberanías alternativas en Puerto Rico y Honduras que se está realizando junto a la Colmena Cimarrona en Vieques, Puerto Rico y la Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH), en Honduras. La misma busca conocer y comprender las alternativas producidas por estos grupos frente a la crisis climática. Teniendo esto en cuenta, se desarrollaron una serie de talleres, visitas y entrevistas. En este artículo centramos la atención en dos de estas actividades: un mapeo territorial participativo y un taller de exploración de utopías en el contexto de Vieques.
By: Larissa González Nieves y Katherine Martínez Medina
17 / September / 2025
El presente artículo expone el proceso de adjudicación de territorio ancestral a favor de la nacionalidad siekopái en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. A lo largo del texto se recogen las vicisitudes y su lucha por el territorio en los últimos ochenta años hasta llegar a la adjudicación actual. Se describe la vinculación espiritual y bio-social de los siekopái con el territorio ancestral Pë’këya, así como la fundamentación etnohistórica y documental que ha permitido el fallo favorable del 24 de noviembre de 2023 por la sala multicompetente de la corte provincial de justicia de Sucumbíos (Ecuador).
By: Julián García Labrador
17 / September / 2025
ABSTRACT Reconociendo la riqueza de la tradicional oral Peruana y su interrelación con la biodiversidad, se realizan en diferentes regiones del Perú actividades culturales para su preservación. Se promueven expresiones artísticas mediante ferias como la Ruraq Maky, una feria que acoge artesanos y el arte popular de varias regiones del Perú. Otro ejemplo de cultura […]
By: Nathalia Lizarraga Conchatupa
17 / September / 2025
Abstract Oil and gas corporations and their lobbyists are increasingly appropriating the language of racial justice, anti-imperialism, and decolonization to block climate action and advance a polluting, extractive, and neocolonial agenda. This article argues that these appropriations are a form of propaganda called undermining demagoguery, which serves to subvert the very ideals it claims to […]
By: Alex Lenferna17 / September / 2025
Abstract Energy colonialism is an essential, yet scarcely theorized concept for understanding how past, present and future energy systems are shaped by colonial or neocolonial power dynamics, imaginaries, discourses, and practices. These perspectives are important for contemporary debates on energy transition processes, namely with regard to green finance flows, new green geopolitics, and energy governance. […]
By: Franziska Müller [1]17 / September / 2025
Abstract Climate crises and other manifestations of environmental degradation are inextricably linked to the universalizing technoscientific paradigm underpinning capitalist industrialization and modernization. This study aimed to problematize the modern/colonial ontological dualism underpinning environmental crises and advocate the indigenous/Adivasi relational onto-epistemology as a different reality that questions the virtues of science, capitalism, and colonial narrative and […]
By: Virendra Kumar [1]
17 / September / 2025
Abstract This article explains the social and economic changes that transpired in Turkey’s rural areas by focusing on a vigneron village in the country’s northwest. My goal is to show that the neo-liberalization of Turkey’s economy in the 1980s and the privatization of state-owned production facilities in the 2000s exacerbated the devaluation of farmers’ products […]
By: Atak Ayaz
17 / September / 2025
Abstract This paper aims to show that in-depth ethnography of processes and acts of sociotechnical tinkering provide a useful starting point for understanding how water knowledge co-creation works. This is even more relevant in countries with a strong legacy of settler colonization and continued power asymmetries between holders of different water-related knowledges and ontologies. Analyzing […]
By: Peytavi Olga[1], Bouard Séverine[2], Le Meur Pierre-Yves[3], Lejars Caroline[4]
17 / September / 2025
Abstract This special issue seeks to offer empirical evidence of the forms of knowledge valued by different actors involved in water conservation practices, the dynamics of cross-fertilisation dynamics, and the possible tensions. It contributes to this reflection by investigating knowledge dialogue and cocreation around water conservation through case studies at the local, regional and global […]
By: Dupuits Emilie [1], Puertas Cecilia [2], Balsiger Jörg [3]
17 / September / 2025
Abstract This article develops a more-than-human and historicising perspective on the co-creation of water knowledge in and around Lake Poopó, Bolivia, an Andean wetland area of international importance threatened by desertification. Through a combination of historical and ethnographic sources, it particularly focuses on the knowledge practices of the Uru or Qot Z’oñi communities who are […]
By: Hanne Cottyn [1]
17 / September / 2025
Abstract En las últimas dos décadas los fondos de agua (FA) han cobrado importancia como mecanismos de conservación del agua y sus fuentes. Éstos promueven una serie de acuerdos entre diversos actores que participan en diálogos sostenidos en contextos de alta desigualdad socioeconómica y política. Así, los FA han logrado conectar a poblaciones peri-urbanas y […]
By: Bibiana Duarte-Abadía [1], Lucia Galarza Suarez [2], Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas [3]
17 / September / 2025
Abstract This article uses a political ecology lens to analyze the impact of shrimp aquaculture in Tamil Nadu, with a case study of a coastal village in the Mayiladuthurai district of Tamil Nadu, India. The article first looks at the shrimp industry in the coastal village as a case that illustrates how global capitalism influences […]
By: Nagarajan R Durai [1], Babuji K R
17 / September / 2025
Abstract Este artículo pretende esbozar las tensiones que surgen de la interacción entre sistemas normativos, analizando el sistema de la gobernanza global del agua basado en el derecho internacional; el sistema jurídico positivo nacional ecuatoriano, abordando el marco constitucional y legal; y el sistema tradicional de los pueblos indígenas andinos basado en el Sumak Kawsay. […]
By: Stephania Yate Cortes [1]
17 / September / 2025
Abstract After decades of community mobilizing and a protracted legal battle, Maya villages in southern Belize won a watershed Indigenous land rights victory in the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2015. Since then, the state has criminalized environmental defenders, violated communal land rights, and is argued by Maya activists and alcaldes (village leaders) to be […]
By: Toledo Anonymous Collective [1], Levi Gahman[2], Filiberto Penados, Shelda-Jane Smith
17 / September / 2025
Abstract Throughout a semester-long introduction to the field of political ecology, our class turned to Paul Robbins’ notion of the “hatchet” and the “seed” to categorize the goals of the field. Exploring this metaphor, we felt compelled to consider its potential within an expanded view of how racial capitalism structures socio-environmental relations. The hatchet points […]
By: Aoife K. Pitts, Benjamin Trost, Nathaniel Trost, Ben Hand, Jared Margulies[1] University of Alabama, United States
17 / September / 2025
Abstract Studies of participatory mapping consider it to be a grassroots activity that secures customary rights, the sovereignty of marginalized communities, and as a tool for conservation and sustainable resource management. Political ecology sees such grassroots struggles as sites where multiple (human) groups/actors articulate and contest their knowledge of, and control over, entities called ‘resources.’ […]
By: K. N. Gomathy [1]
17 / September / 2025
The artwork on our home page is by Angie Vanessita, an Ecuadorian artist whose art is inspired by the work of indigenous, afrodescendent, campesino and rural communities who defend their territories against the advance of capitalist extractivism. To discover more of her art we invite you to visit her website. We chose her piece Noche […]
By: Angie Vanessita
