Grassroots

Journal of Political Ecology
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Freshwater supply as sociotechnical tinkering: the co-creation of water knowledge and assemblages in New Caledonia
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This paper aims to show that in-depth ethnography of processes and acts of sociotechnical tinkering provide a useful starting point for understanding how water knowledge co-creation works. This is even more relevant in countries with a strong legacy of settler colonization and continued power asymme...

Academic Article

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Knowledges cocreation and water conservation in the Global South: an introduction
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This special issue seeks to offer empirical evidence of the forms of knowledge valued by different actors involved in water conservation practices, the dynamics of cross-fertilisation dynamics, and the possible tensions. It contributes to this reflection by investigating knowledge dialogue and cocre...

Academic Article

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Historicizing more-than-human knowledge practices around water in the Lake Poopó basin, Bolivia
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This article develops a more-than-human and historicising perspective on the co-creation of water knowledge in and around Lake Poopó, Bolivia, an Andean wetland area of international importance threatened by desertification. Through a combination of historical and ethnographic sources, it particula...

Academic Article

JULY 09, 2023
¿Seguridad hídrica urbano-rural en los fondos de agua? Un análisis desde las relaciones de poder, la participación y la co-creación de conocimientos
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En las últimas dos décadas los fondos de agua (FA) han cobrado importancia como mecanismos de conservación del agua y sus fuentes. Éstos promueven una serie de acuerdos entre diversos actores que participan en diálogos sostenidos en contextos de alta desigualdad socioeconómica y política. AsÃ...

Academic Article

MAY 29, 2023
The political ecology of shrimp aquaculture in Tamil Nadu: A case study from Mayiladuthurai District
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This article uses a political ecology lens to analyze the impact of shrimp aquaculture in Tamil Nadu, with a case study of a coastal village in the Mayiladuthurai district of Tamil Nadu, India. The article first looks at the shrimp industry in the coastal village as a case that illustrates how globa...

Academic Article

APRIL 11, 2023
Cartografías de la esperanza: la colmena cimarrona de Vieques, Puerto Rico frente a las múltiples crisis
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Este escrito busca divulgar algunos hallazgos iniciales de una investigación [1] más amplia, titulada Diálogos caribeño-latinoamericanos por la justicia climática: Entramados comunitarios y soberanías alternativas en Puerto Rico y Honduras que se está realizando junto a la Colmena Cimarrona ...

Activist Contribution

APRIL 07, 2023
Retos y oportunidades de la pequeña minería de oro en la Amazonía colombiana – entrevista con Enrique Castro
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Conocimos a Enrique Castro por nuestro trabajo en el proyecto EPICC (Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains (EPICC): Comparing multi-level governance for Biodiversity Protection and Climate Action in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia). Enrique fue pequeño minero artesanal en Taraira...

Activist Contribution

MARCH 21, 2023
Interacción de sistemas normativos globales y locales en la gobernanza del agua: análisis desde la experiencia ecuatoriana
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Este artículo pretende esbozar las tensiones que surgen de la interacción entre sistemas normativos, analizando el sistema de la gobernanza global del agua basado en el derecho internacional; el sistema jurídico positivo nacional ecuatoriano, abordando el marco constitucional y legal; y el sistem...

Academic Article

MARCH 12, 2023
The violence of disavowing Indigenous governance: exposing the colonial politics of "development" and FPIC in the Caribbean
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After decades of community mobilizing and a protracted legal battle, Maya villages in southern Belize won a watershed Indigenous land rights victory in the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2015. Since then, the state has criminalized environmental defenders, violated communal land rights, and is argued...

Academic Article

AUGUST 20, 2022
Identidad, tradición oral y cosmovisión basada en el ecosistema en Perú: reflexiones estéticas desde el surrealismo
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Reconociendo la riqueza de la tradicional oral Peruana y su interrelación con la biodiversidad, se realizan en diferentes regiones del Perú actividades culturales para su preservación. Se promueven expresiones artísticas mediante ferias como la Ruraq Maky, una feria que acoge artesanos y el arte...

Visual Essays

MAY 26, 2022
Learning with the seed bomb: on a classroom encounter with abolition ecology
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Throughout a semester-long introduction to the field of political ecology, our class turned to Paul Robbins' notion of the "hatchet" and the "seed" to categorize the goals of the field. Exploring this metaphor, we felt compelled to consider its potential within an expanded view of how racial capital...

Academic Article

MAY 16, 2022
Soñar futuros antiextractivistas: encuentro de mujeres jóvenes en la Reserva de la Biosfera del Choco Andino, Ecuador
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El texto presentado a continuación es un ejercicio de escritura creativa, que relata el esfuerzo de crear un espacio para compartir y soñar los futuros que queremos como mujeres jóvenes desde nuestros cuerpos y territorios biodiversos. Hablamos del encuentro de mujeres jovenes que se llevó a cab...

Activist Contribution

MARCH 25, 2022
Symmetrical, non-sovereign cartography as a means for conservation: insights from a participatory forest mapping exercise
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Studies of participatory mapping consider it to be a grassroots activity that secures customary rights, the sovereignty of marginalized communities, and as a tool for conservation and sustainable resource management. Political ecology sees such grassroots struggles as sites where multiple (human) gr...

Academic Article

MARCH 10, 2022