Before taking some much-needed time off, we want to leave you with good summer wishes and a selection of some of this year’s reads from our blog.
Dear readers,
We are slowing down and taking a short break for the month of August, to recharge and continue working together in the new season. We wish you a time of rest, joy and action and hope to see you back with renewed energies for social and ecological justice.
The first half of 2024 has brought us some exciting news, as we are completing our first collective book: Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations (Fernwood Publishing). The book will be released in October and is already available for pre-order.
It has also been a period of intense suffering and courageous resistance, with the continued genocidal and ecocidal occupation of Palestine and devastation of Gaza. We encourage you to take a look at the Palestinian Political Ecologies Reader curated by Ethemcan Turhan that we published in solidarity with ongoing student encampments for Palestine.
And during the break you can catch up on some of our favourite posts so far this year:
- The Rise and Fall of a Resistance Movement Against Oil Extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon, by Francesco Torri
- The genocide in Gaza is also a terricide: Reflections on the climate crisis and the collapse of western civilization, by Carlos Tornel
- The Danish Way to Criminalize Climate Activism, by Salvatore Paolo De Rosa and Gustav Kruse
- A Toxic Relationship: The Love Affair Between Farmers and Pesticides, by Lucia Arguelles
- LITMUS: Visualising the Hidden Histories of Cottonopolis, by Laura Pottinger, Arianna Tozzi, Erin Beeston, Alison Browne, and the Cottonopolis Collective, University of Manchester
- The Inverted World of the Far Right and the Transformation of Nature: Vox’s “Real Ecology” in Spain, by Lucia Alexandra Popartan and Camil Ungureanu
- Farmers against the environment? The causes of farmer protests and problems with “greening” policies in Europe, by Natalia Mamonova
- “We must find a common language that resonates across borders and experiences”: A report on the Allied Grounds conference, by Stephen Bouquin
- On again, off again: Ghana’s struggles with electricity unreliability, equity and sustainability, by Christian Emmanuel Bruku and Kimberley Thomas
(Featured image: “The Art of a Fence”, by Sigrid Møller. Source: The Danish Peace Academy.)
