December 20, 2022

Against the misrepresentation of climate activism in Lützerath aka the ZAD Rhineland

On November 7th 2022, Aftenposten (one of Norway’s largest daily newspapers) published an article in which two journalists describe their perception of the mining conflict around Lützerath, a squatted village in Germany also known as ZAD Rhineland. The following text responds to the journalists’ misrepresentations of climate justice activists and land defenders, as well as the journalists’ ignorance regarding powerful private-public relationships
September 29, 2022

Europe’s summer of reckoning with losses and damages

By Guy Jackson. Climate-exacerbated disasters in Europe can illuminate the increasing economic and non-economic losses being experienced globally. From solidarity in loss may come solidarity in action, to fight the systems of oppression that create unequal vulnerabilities and fuel climate change
November 9, 2021

A Call for Papers on Militant Ecologies

In her 1968 Revolutionary Letters, Diane di Prima issued an all-caps injunction: “BLOW UP THE PETROLEUM LINES.” “Make the cars / into flower pots or sculptures or live / in the bigger ones,” she suggests, “why not?” Increasingly, di Prima’s resonant question – “why not?” – resurfaces in environmentalism’s re-engagement with tactics of militant direct action and lineages of anti-colonial struggle, reflected in a critical turn towards histories of insurrection, re-occupation, and pipeline resistance. Alongside di Prima’s incitement to infrastructural sabotage is the more irreverent […]
March 3, 2021

Forests are not just sites of climate mitigation

By Felix Krawczyk Forests are more and more central to discussions on resources for climate mitigation. However, seeing the forest only as a site of climate mitigation obstructs the way to an ecological society. Instead, forests should be seen as sites of resistance against ecological destruction.
January 12, 2021

Too big to fail? REDD+ and the promise of forest-based climate mitigation

By Adeniyi Asiyanbi and Jens Friis Lund More than a decade of REDD+ initiatives has shown abundant evidence of poor outcomes. Now that forest-based mitigation projects to tackle climate change are gaining traction again, we can learn from the tensions embedded in REDD+ schemes to assess the critical implications of market-based forest governance for effective climate action and climate justice
November 15, 2019

Blocking the Flows. Notes from a climate action in Göteborg

By Salvatore De Rosa. How does it feel to take part in a direct action to stop climate chaos? What do you need to know and what do you learn before, during and after? Here we offer a reportage and some reflections on the mass action at the port of Göteborg, Sweden, on September 7th, 2019. While we block the flows, we build the communities able to face these troubled times.
May 17, 2018

Trashopolis! Storytelling, waste research and glocal conflicts

by Salvatore De Rosa This is a very personal account of an ethnographic immersion in the epicenter of an environmental conflict of huge proportions. That happens to be, at the same time, the place where I was born. It is an attempt at connecting the dots between individual existence, collective destinies and glocal ecological transformations. Campania, anno 2016, Anthropocene has already shown up here as Biocide. But in the Zone we became Stalkers…
September 6, 2016

Campania grassroots movements: lessons from 15 years of environmental struggle

Social mobilizations in Campania are changing the political, economic, cultural and ecological landscapes of the region. Their strategies and practices draw a path of resistance and reappropriation that can inspire environmental movements in Italy and elsewhere.
August 2, 2016

Drivers of illegal waste disposal: the case of Campania, Italy

Illegal economic practices are often labeled as aberrations of the market logic, but few realize their role in sustaining capitalist accumulation and power hierarchies. Uncovering the drivers of illegal waste disposal in Campania demonstrates that illicit and legal economies are often intertwined and mutually beneficial.*
February 18, 2016

Agorà dei movimenti – Programma preliminare

From 4 to 6 March 2016, there will be in Napoli (Italy) the Agorà of movements in defense of territories and for environmental justice, an event organized by ENTITLE in collaboration with Lund University, A Sud, CDCA and activists and researchers from Italy. The preliminary program is finally out! (english below) Il programma preliminare dell’Agorà dei movimenti in difesa dei territori e per la giustizia ambientale è pronto! Il programma con le informazioni dettagliate dell’evento, delle plenarie e delle tracce dei tavoli di lavoro, è qui. […]
January 18, 2016

Agorà dei movimenti in difesa dei territori e per la giustizia ambientale, Napoli 4-6 marzo 2016

From 4 to 6 March 2016, there will be in Napoli (Italy) the Agorà of movements in defense of territories and for environmental justice, an event organized by ENTITLE in collaboration with Lund University, A Sud, CDCA and activists and researchers from Italy. The Agorà is an attempt at creating a space of confrontation, collective learning and analysis on socio-environmental struggles in the Italian context. A space where activists and researchers will meet to exchange and discuss on our common futures. This is the call for participation. Chiamata […]
August 4, 2015

Water: source of life and conflict in the Land of Rivers

By Joris Leverink.* Oil is often seen as the root cause of conflict in the Middle East, but in the coming years water might come to overtake it as a key source of dispute.