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Short Essays

No TAV: Twenty years ago we fought to save the valley, and yet it feels like yesterday

by Nicoletta Dosio On December 8, 2025, the Italian movement against the high-speed rail (No TAV) celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the so-called Battle of…

Nicoletta DosioDecember 19, 2025

Events and Calls Short Essays

Under the Tree: Finding Each Other at the Margins of COP30

By Siuchieh Sandra Tai At COP30 in Belém, I navigated as both climate activist and anthropologist, discovering that the most transformative encounters happened not in…

Siuchieh Sandra TaiDecember 18, 2025

Long Reads Reviews

Publicly Funded Mining Propaganda: Europe’s Lithium Paradox (2025)

by Alexander Dunlap, Mariana Riquito, Bojana Novaković & Darko Lagunas Leon A thorough debunking of the recent documentary Europe’s Lithium Paradox, which leads to broader…

Alexander DunlapDecember 15, 2025

Notes from the field Short Essays

For Palestinian Land Relations: An Anticolonial Political Ecology of the Occupied West Bank

By Calico Drawing from on-the-ground direct action as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), this essay details the violent realities of Israeli apartheid…

CalicoDecember 9, 2025

Illustration by Othman Selmi | www.behance.net/othmanselmi Originally published by the Transnational Institute in the "Dismantling Green Colonialism" dossier: https://www.tni.org/en/dossier/dismantling-green-colonialism Republished with artist's permissionns

Long Reads Reviews

Geopolitics of green colonialism: decarbonising, but for whom, and at what cost?

by Yanis Rihi Decolonising the transition: the unease There is currently unease at the heart of the transition we are being promised. The energy transition,…

Yanis RihiDecember 3, 2025

Agriculture and Migration in Algerian oasis: Deep Groundwater access and Changing Relationships with Land and Labour

Negative Emissions as Commons?

Kurdish Civilians in Aleppo Under Massacre and Mass Displacement Threat

No TAV: Twenty years ago we fought to save the valley, and yet it feels like yesterday

Under the Tree: Finding Each Other at the Margins of COP30

Publicly Funded Mining Propaganda: Europe’s Lithium Paradox (2025)

For Palestinian Land Relations: An Anticolonial Political Ecology of the Occupied West Bank

Geopolitics of green colonialism: decarbonising, but for whom, and at what cost?

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