Calls for papers for conferences, calls for participation in meetings, protests and other direct actions, or other events.

October 25, 2022

Energy transition from below: From climate colonialism to energy sovereignty

By J. Sebastian Reyes Bejarano, Gustavo García López, and Diego Andreucci, in conversation with Tatiana Roa Avendaño, Teresa Borasino, Marina Weinberg and Daniel Chavez. In an event last June, activists and scholars critically analyzed dominant energy transition discourses as new business horizon, as green utopia and as myth. They contrasted these with alternative visions and strategies for energy sovereignty emerging from grassroots struggles in the global south.
October 25, 2022

La transición energética desde abajo: Del colonialismo climático a la soberanía energética

Por J. Sebastian Reyes Bejarano, Gustavo García López y Diego Andreucci, en conversación con Tatiana Roa Avendaño, Teresa Borasino, Marina Weinberg y Daniel Chavez. En un evento celebrado el pasado mes de junio, activistas y académicos analizaron críticamente los discursos dominantes sobre la transición energética como nuevo horizonte empresarial, como utopía verde y como mito, y los contrastaron con visiones y estrategias para la soberanía energética que surgen de las luchas de base en los sures del mundo.
June 8, 2022

Seminar: “Energy Transitions from Below: From Climate Colonialism to Energy Sovereignty”, 15 June

A hybrid seminar co-organised by Undisciplined Environments will bring together scholars and activists to discuss alternatives to dominant energy "transition" plans.
June 2, 2022

EXALT Webinar Conference “Green Extractivism & Violent Conflict” on June 17

EXALT hosts a one-day webinar conference “Green Extractivism & Violent Conflict” on June 17, 2022.
May 3, 2022

Environmental Humanities 2021-2022 Lecture Series at NKUA

The 2021-2022 lecture series “Environment/Sustainability, Science, Technology”, organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), will host a series of scholars working on a range of political ecology issues, from austerity, low-carbon transitions and climate engineering, to urban infrastructure and waste. 
March 15, 2022

Common Ecologies has launched!

By Common Ecologies. The Common Ecologies School is a platform for movement learning with two first online courses and a summer school. The school's aim is to facilitate conversations across different struggles, grappling with our present context of socio-ecological crisis by learning from different practices and debates - to build the transversal & translocal power and care we need.
February 15, 2022

The unequal university will never be ‘sustainable’

By Ana Diaz Vidal, Clara Freudenberg, Isabelle Darmon. Through green rankings and strategies for sustainability and climate virtue, universities attract and reproduce wealth, driving high consumption – paradoxically exacerbating climate change and unsustainability. Only attending to inequalities can universities do away with the carbon fetish and work for actual sustainability. University staff and students, embarked on a UK-wide strike against staff exploitation and rising costs, need to make this point loud and clear!    
February 9, 2022

Platforming to Oblivion: How academic institutions foster merchants of doubt

By Trym Daniel Rødvik, Philip Godal, Linnea Møller Jess and Skander Manaa. When a leading research institution hosts a debate with an infamous climate denialist, gathering his fans, selling his books, and adding to his resume, we all lose. 
January 20, 2022

Post-Extractive Futures (Workshop-Conversation-Festival)

By War on Want, Tipping Point UK and JunteGente. Post-Extractive Futures, a workshop series taking place between February 1-3 (11am NY/Bogota, 4pm London/Dakar), is a space of mutual learning about the world we can build guided by the questions: What can we do together that we can’t do alone?  How do we support each other in building the ecological and reparative worlds we need? 
January 11, 2022

IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política. Ecología Política y Pensamiento Crítico Latinoamericano: Raíces, Trayectorias y Miradas al Futuro

El Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador y el Instituto de Estudios Ecologistas del Tercer Mundo, con el apoyo del Grupo de Trabajo Ecología(s) política(s) desde el Sur/Abya-Yala de CLACSO invitan a la comunidad académica y a los movimientos sociales a participar en el IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política.
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 […]
September 21, 2021

September 21st: International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations

By World Rainforest Movement. Today, September 21st, International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, communities, movements, organizations and networks celebrate the courage and strength behind every struggle.