MARCH 30, 2024
Embedding Municipal Green Bonds in Mexico City’s Hydrosocial Cycle: ‘Green’ Debt and Climate Action Narratives
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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...
MARCH 29, 2024
Climate services for food security in Guatemala: An exploration of institutional dynamics in a colonial and neoliberal system
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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...
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Decolonizing refugeehood: The rise of climate refugees as a new legal subjectivity
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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...
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Pathways to decolonize north–south relations around energy transition
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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...
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
Losing touch with mother seed: Insights from action research with small-scale farmers in Tamil Nadu, India
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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 ...
FEBRUARY 03, 2024
Oil and Gas Corporations as Anti-Racist Decolonial Liberators? A Case Study of Propaganda from the Struggle Against Shell in South Africa
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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...
FEBRUARY 03, 2024
Provincializing Energy Transitions
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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...
JANUARY 30, 2024
La utopía del retorno se hace realidad. Los Siekopái vieron reconocido su derecho al territorio ancestral en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana
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El presente artÃculo expone el proceso de adjudicación de territorio ancestral a favor de la nacionalidad siekopái en la AmazonÃa 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...
JANUARY 01, 2024
Aging community, changing crops: The faith of grapes in Turkey
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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...
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Freshwater supply as sociotechnical tinkering: the co-creation of water knowledge and assemblages in New Caledonia
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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...
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Knowledges cocreation and water conservation in the Global South: an introduction
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...
JULY 09, 2023
Historicizing more-than-human knowledge practices around water in the Lake Poopó basin, Bolivia
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...
MAY 29, 2023
¿Seguridad hídrica urbano-rural en los fondos de agua? Un análisis desde las relaciones de poder, la participación y la co-creación de conocimientos
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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 polÃtica. AsÃ...
APRIL 11, 2023
The political ecology of shrimp aquaculture in Tamil Nadu: A case study from Mayiladuthurai District
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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...
APRIL 07, 2023
Cartografías de la esperanza: la colmena cimarrona de Vieques, Puerto Rico frente a las múltiples crisis
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Este escrito busca divulgar algunos hallazgos iniciales de una investigación [1] más amplia, titulada Diálogos caribeño-latinoamericanos por la justicia climática: Entramados comunitarios y soberanÃas alternativas en Puerto Rico y Honduras que se está realizando junto a la Colmena Cimarrona ...
MARCH 21, 2023
Retos y oportunidades de la pequeña minería de oro en la Amazonía colombiana – entrevista con Enrique Castro
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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...
MARCH 12, 2023
Interacción de sistemas normativos globales y locales en la gobernanza del agua: análisis desde la experiencia ecuatoriana
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Este artÃculo 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 jurÃdico positivo nacional ecuatoriano, abordando el marco constitucional y legal; y el sistem...
AUGUST 20, 2022
The violence of disavowing Indigenous governance: exposing the colonial politics of "development" and FPIC in the Caribbean
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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...
MAY 26, 2022
Identidad, tradición oral y cosmovisión basada en el ecosistema en Perú: reflexiones estéticas desde el surrealismo
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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 artÃsticas mediante ferias como la Ruraq Maky, una feria que acoge artesanos y el arte...
MAY 16, 2022
Learning with the seed bomb: on a classroom encounter with abolition ecology
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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...
MARCH 25, 2022
Soñar futuros antiextractivistas: encuentro de mujeres jóvenes en la Reserva de la Biosfera del Choco Andino, Ecuador
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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...
MARCH 10, 2022
Symmetrical, non-sovereign cartography as a means for conservation: insights from a participatory forest mapping exercise
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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...