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Insights from the grassroots: Political ecology of Brazilian  environmental justice movements

This paper and a related series of lectures published at the JPE-Grassroots platform present first-hand perspectives of diverse Brazilian environmental justice movements,  including indigenous, quilombola, traditional forest peoples’ and food sovereignty movements. We summarize the key ideas shared in the lectures and systematize contributions as collective innovations for the environmental agenda and the ongoing making of political ecology.

20
Oct

Play for the Planet 3, zines, environmental games & political ecology

By: Judith Krauss, Lynda Dunlop, Pen Holland, Doruk Balcı

20
Oct

Photovoice as a method to perceive Nature’s agency and more-than-human ecologies

By: Tosana Maria Töben

21
Jul

Oral histories of landscapes: Memory, mobility and adaptations on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro ca. 1890s–1960s

By: M. J. Chuhila

25
Aug

Pollution, power relations and the false livelihoods/environment trade-off in the Gauteng City-Region, South Africa

By: Ngaka Mosiane, Phathutshedzo Eugene Ratshiedana, and Wendy Tsoriyo

Activist contributions

22 / October / 2026

The Long Walk to Justice

By: Ngaka Mosiane, Phathutshedzo Eugene Ratshiedana, and Wendy Tsoriyo

26 / May / 2026

Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Territorial Development in Brazil

By:Ana Terra and Josiane dos Santos

26 / May / 2026

Insights from Brazil's Grassroots: Political Ecology in the Making

By:Dr. Laila Sandroni, Dr. Bruno Tarin, and Dr. Erika Larkins

26 / May / 2026

Indigenous Movements of Southern Bahia, Brazil

By:Juliana Tupinambá

Visual essay

Play for the Planet 3, zines, environmental games & political ecology

We were delighted to hold the third iteration of the Play for the Planet symposium in York, UK, on 24 April 2026, giving space to research presentations, but also an opportunity to play environmental games. Play for the Planet is a network of the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI), bringing together academics and professional services […]

Photovoice as a method to perceive Nature’s agency and more-than-human ecologies

How can we return to the aliveness of the planet in the study of socio-nature relations when those relations defy direct observation and established research paradigms? how might we engage in such research with fleeting natural entities?

Mi Mi’s Story: Visualizing Life on the Land in the Myanmar Spring Revolution

Participatory visual methods as well as collaborations with artists can enhance political ecologists’ ability to know and communicate accounts of life on the land. This is particularly true in times and places where traditional research is impossible. Our project, Land, Labor, Love & Revolution, explores rural women’s perspectives of life on the land in the […]

Xa Lyu K’aq: A World of Mountains

“Todo ha cambiado y va a cambiar mas” (“Everything has changed and will continue to change further.”). With these words, Gaspar Salinas, the main collaborator in our film Xa Lyu K’aq: A World of Mountains, frames the current moment he faces as his community’s forest has already undergone a large transformation and is perhaps on […]

Students as Public Intellectuals: Zine-Making in the Political Ecology Classroom

Adrienne: The COVID-19 pandemic proved a difficult time for educators. Many of us were tasked with teaching students who were experiencing extreme challenges such as sickness, increased household responsibilities, and the stresses of trying to stay on their degree completion timelines with growing global uncertainties. As stay-at-home orders lifted and in-person teaching resumed, I noticed […]

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