Grassroots

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, whi...

Academic Article

MARCH 30, 2024

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 ins...

Academic Article

MARCH 29, 2024

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 overc...

Academic Article

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Abstract Climate coloniality manifests in the violent appropriation of territories in the Global South, including the extraction of strategic minerals such as copper and molybdenum to service energy transition and green growth for the major world powers. Peasant communities in the Intag river valley...

Academic Article

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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 ...

Academic Article

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

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...

Academic Article

FEBRUARY 03, 2024

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, grea...

Academic Article

FEBRUARY 03, 2024

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 des...

Activist Contribution

JANUARY 30, 2024

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 th...

Academic Article

JANUARY 01, 2024

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 asymme...

Academic Article

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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 cocre...

Academic Article

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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 particula...

Academic Article

JULY 09, 2023

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. AsÃ...

Academic Article

MAY 29, 2023

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 globa...

Academic Article

APRIL 11, 2023

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 ...

Activist Contribution

APRIL 07, 2023

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...

Activist Contribution

MARCH 21, 2023

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 sistem...

Academic Article

MARCH 12, 2023

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...

Academic Article

AUGUST 20, 2022

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...

Visual Essays

MAY 26, 2022

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 capital...

Academic Article

MAY 16, 2022

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 cab...

Activist Contribution

MARCH 25, 2022

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) gr...

Academic Article

MARCH 10, 2022