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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

Interviews Long Reads

“Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing”: An Interview with Caitlin Schroering

By Lydia Karazarifi and Irene Leonardelli, in conversation with Caitlin Schroering Based on her recently published book “Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water We…

Caitlin SchroeringOctober 30, 2025

Negative Emissions as Commons?

Kurdish Civilians in Aleppo Under Massacre and Mass Displacement Threat

Political Ecology of Science Fiction: Why Film Can Help Us Better Understand the Contemporary Environmental Crisis

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?

“Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing”: An Interview with Caitlin Schroering

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