Between crises and insurgencies: the political ecology in defense of shared living

Abstract

This article offers a review of the recent trajectories of political ecologies as communities of practice and movements for environmental justice, as well as a paradigm of scientific analysis. In this introduction to the 2021 special issue “Decolonial Insurgencies and Emancipatory Horizons: contributions from Political Ecology” of the Ambiente & Sociedade journal, we present a reflection on the contemporary socio-environmental reality, characterized by crises, environmental destruction, and climate emergency, focusing on the role of political ecology as a privileged space to critically discuss the socio-environmental relations that constitute new forms of violent appropriation of nature. Facing the tension of the current context marked by the rise of phenomena such as authoritarianism, climate change denial, and inequality, we highlight the construction of counter-narratives and alternatives that mobilize other horizons of emancipation and living projects through insurgencies and movements that emerge from the protagonism of marginalized populations and struggles for environmental justice.

Reparation ecology and climate risk in Latin-America: Experiences from four countries

“…The term reparation ecology was introduced in 2017 by environmental historian James W. Moore and justice writer Raj Patel (Patel and Moore, 2017) as a "vision" or a "program", crediting intellectual inspiration to the Movement of Black Lives in the US (Ritchie and Stahly-Butts, 2019) and the concept of liberation ecology (Peet and Watts, 2002). Reparation ecology posits that the environment cannot be considered separately from gender, race, class, and colonialism (Empinotti et al, 2021). Accordingly, we should try to understand capitalism as an Besides the two books cited (Patel et al, ; Papadopoulos et al, ), a Scopus search of peer-reviewed publications on -using the search string "ecolog * of repair" OR "reparation ecolog * " OR "ecological reparation" found only hits (Sharife and Bond, ; Currie-Mueller, ; Cadieux et al, ; Thomas, ; Blanco-Wells, ).…”