Summarizing a recent conversation in Globalizations, this article seeks to provoke a dialogue on environmental and energy justice, political affinity, statism, everyday warfare and the concept of activism. See here:... more
Summarizing a recent conversation in Globalizations, this article seeks to provoke a dialogue on environmental and energy justice, political affinity, statism, everyday warfare and the concept of activism. See here: https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2023/07/18/energy-justice-discussing-war-the-state-academia-and-activism/
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Geography, Human Geography, Anthropology, Development Studies, and 13 morePolitical Ecology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Sustainable Development, Anarchism, Energy, Anarchist Studies, Environmental Justice, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Autonomist Marxism, Protest Movements, Postdevelopment Theory, and Energy justice
Below is a transcribed talk by Peter Gelderloos. This talk emerges from the book tour for The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for an Ecological Revolution from Below. This talk polemically recapitulates themes within the book,... more
Below is a transcribed talk by Peter Gelderloos. This talk emerges from the book tour for The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for an Ecological Revolution from Below. This talk polemically recapitulates themes within the book, advocating for an anti-authoritarian ecological revolution and, consequently, chastising the terms 'climate crisis' and Anthropocene. The lecture extends beyond the book's content. Confronting the audience and challenging its reader, the lecture delves into how authorities administer ecological crisis, which extends to criticizing the dominant institutions and science. This includes exploring how people are disembodied and separated from their habitats, thinking 'like a state' or planner, and, consequently, stifling their imaginations and working against revolutionary futures. This lecture also discusses the important qualities and directions for a decentralized ecological revolution from below, what to avoid, ideas to consider, and outlining a general direction for collective struggle.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory, Geography, and 13 moreHuman Geography, Climate Change, Marxism, Political Ecology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Anarchism, Anarchist Studies, Environmental Sustainability, Political Geography, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Green Anarchism, and Renewable Energy and Climate Change
SEE ONLINE HERE: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/alexander-dunlap/degrowth-care-two-commentaries-worth-mentioning.html Degrowth debates increase with its popularity, but scholars favoring degrowth are starting to... more
SEE ONLINE HERE: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/alexander-dunlap/degrowth-care-two-commentaries-worth-mentioning.html
Degrowth debates increase with its popularity, but scholars favoring degrowth are starting to raise concern with 'degrowth reformism' and its potential for cooptation by mainstream interests.
Degrowth debates increase with its popularity, but scholars favoring degrowth are starting to raise concern with 'degrowth reformism' and its potential for cooptation by mainstream interests.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Economics, Development Economics, Development Studies, Climate Change, and 14 morePostcolonial Studies, Political Ecology, Community Development, Genocide Studies, Ecological Economics, Sustainable Development, Anarchism, Rural Development, Political Ecology (Anthropology), DeGrowth, Decolonial Thought, Steady-State Economy, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Evolution of Economics, Sustainable Lifestyles, Behavioral Change, Human Development, Evolution of Consciousness, Intentional Communities, Grassroots Movements, FOUNEATION OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, and Renewable Energy and Climate Change
Why do degrowth intellectuals publicly neglect combative self-defense against “growth” projects? The connection between degrowth and anti-capitalist, autonomist and (ecological) anarchist movements exists, and it can be strengthened by... more
Why do degrowth intellectuals publicly neglect combative self-defense against “growth” projects? The connection between degrowth and anti-capitalist, autonomist and (ecological) anarchist movements exists, and it can be strengthened by acknowledging the legitimacy of a diversity of tactics as necessary pathways towards degrowing the techno-capitalist system and protecting habitats form infrastructural invasion.
See here: https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/12/02/recognizing-the-de-in-degrowth/
See here: https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/12/02/recognizing-the-de-in-degrowth/
Research Interests: Social Movements, Anthropology, Climate Change, Political Ecology, Ecological Economics, and 14 moreSustainable Development, Anarchism, Anarchist Studies, Resistance (Social), Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Environmental Sustainability, Political Geography, Political Ecology (Anthropology), DeGrowth, Autonomia, Geogrpahy, Postdevelopment Theory, Protest and resistance, and Antiglobalization Social Movements
On 8 October 2019, riot police and other armed security forces violently evicted what had come to be known as L’Amassada, a ZAD (Zone-to-Defend) occupation in Saint-Victor-et-Melvieu in southern France. The following, written a year after... more
On 8 October 2019, riot police and other armed security forces violently evicted what had come to be known as L’Amassada, a ZAD (Zone-to-Defend) occupation in Saint-Victor-et-Melvieu in southern France. The following, written a year after the eviction, outlines the goals, structure, and accomplishments of the occupation as well as the political and environmental context of ongoing ZAD struggles against the economic and ecological destruction required by “green” development.
Available online: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4869-this-is-what-energy-transition-looks-like-l-amassada-eviction-one-year-later
Available online: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4869-this-is-what-energy-transition-looks-like-l-amassada-eviction-one-year-later
Research Interests: Social Movements, Geography, Anthropology, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, and 12 morePolitical Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainable Development, Anarchist Studies, Energy and Environment, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Environmental Sustainability, Political Geography, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Anarcho-autonomism and political transformation, Autonomia, and Political Ecology and Economy
"[T]his article briefly examines how anarchism might be useful for decolonization: what is anarchist decolonization or decoloniality?" See online here:... more
"[T]his article briefly examines how anarchism might be useful for decolonization: what is anarchist decolonization or decoloniality?"
See online here: https://medium.com/tvergastein-journal/compost-the-colony-exploring-anarchist-decolonization-5e3f4301664a
See online here: https://medium.com/tvergastein-journal/compost-the-colony-exploring-anarchist-decolonization-5e3f4301664a
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Movements, Geography, Human Geography, Indigenous Studies, and 15 morePolitical Ecology, Anarchism, Critical Social Theory, Anarchist Studies, Protest, Environmental Sustainability, Political Ecology (Anthropology), 'Decolonization' and the politics of settler state/Indigenous relations, Decolonial Thought, Anarchy, Anarquismo, Decolonialidad, Modernity/coloniality/decoloniality, Antiglobalization Social Movements, and Nationalism and Decolonization
Despite its serious flaws, Jeff Gibbs’s documentary Planet of the Humans powerfully exposes how optimism for “renewable energy” transitions is misplaced, and how mainstream environmentalism is becoming a force for green capitalism. See... more
Despite its serious flaws, Jeff Gibbs’s documentary Planet of the Humans powerfully exposes how optimism for “renewable energy” transitions is misplaced, and how mainstream environmentalism is becoming a force for green capitalism.
See here: https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/05/20/renewables-and-environmental-leaders-wont-save-us/
See here: https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/05/20/renewables-and-environmental-leaders-wont-save-us/
Research Interests: Geography, Development Studies, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Political Ecology, and 12 moreSustainable Development, Energy, Energy and Environment, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Environmental Sustainability, Wind Energy (Engineering), Political Ecology (Anthropology), Climate Change Impacts, Environmentalism, Protest Movements, Energy transition, and Renewable Energy and Climate Change
"El desarrollo de las energías renovables, principalmente las eólicas en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, "renuevan la destrucción" y ponen en jaque los derechos y las… leer más del autor SinEmbargo mayo 18, 2020 Figure: Las energías renovables... more
"El desarrollo de las energías renovables, principalmente las eólicas en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, "renuevan la destrucción" y ponen en jaque los derechos y las… leer más del autor SinEmbargo mayo 18, 2020 Figure: Las energías renovables al centro del debate.
See: https://www.sinembargo.mx/18-05-2020/3788207
See: https://www.sinembargo.mx/18-05-2020/3788207
Research Interests: Geography, Political Ecology, Political Science, Central America and Mexico, Political Ecology (Anthropology), and 10 moreBook Reviews, Ciencia Politica, Geografia, Cambio climático, Cooperación Internacional Para El Desarrollo, Energías Renovables, Medio Ambiente, Desarrollo Sustentable, América Latina, and Desarrollo Sociopolìtico cultural y econòmico
What does Controlavirus mean?
Available here: https://medium.com/tvergastein-journal/controlavirus-clarification-b203c79b2c1
Available here: https://medium.com/tvergastein-journal/controlavirus-clarification-b203c79b2c1
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Theory, Geography, Anthropology, Development Studies, and 11 moreGovernment, Political Ecology, Social Movement, Political Science, Sustainable Development, Anarchism, Urban Studies, Environmental Sustainability, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Urban Political Ecology, and COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) place a strong focus on "rule of law" and "good governance" in achieving sustainable development. But in practice these strategies often result in the expansion of degrading socio-ecological... more
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) place a strong focus on "rule of law" and "good governance" in achieving sustainable development. But in practice these strategies often result in the expansion of degrading socio-ecological development practices.
Available here: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/sustainable-development-goals-and-household-governance.html
Available here: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/sustainable-development-goals-and-household-governance.html
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Theory, Geography, Human Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, and 14 moreDevelopment Economics, Anthropology, Development Studies, Political Ecology, Political Science, Sustainable Development, United Nations, Environmental Justice, Environmental Sustainability, Cultural Anthropology, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Counterinsurgency, Political Ecology and Economy, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The degradation, conflict and cumulative climatic effects of industrial expansion demand a new language to identify extractive and infrastructural megaprojects. We are not dealing with "development", but with deranged worms, octopuses and... more
The degradation, conflict and cumulative climatic effects of industrial expansion demand a new language to identify extractive and infrastructural megaprojects. We are not dealing with "development", but with deranged worms, octopuses and the construction of Worldeater(s).
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Geography, Human Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Development Studies, and 11 moreSocial Sciences, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Political Ecology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sustainable Development, Anarchism, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Anthroplogy, Political Ecology and Economy, and Renewable Energy and Climate Change
As a researcher who has worked in these areas since January 2015, it is clear that the earthquakes underscored the importance of natural Zapotec buildings and design as a key mechanism of community wellness. But that story cannot be told... more
As a researcher who has worked in these areas since January 2015, it is clear that the earthquakes underscored the importance of natural Zapotec buildings and design as a key mechanism of community wellness. But that story cannot be told without looking at how wind farms in the region are often in direct conflict with traditional building styles.
Available here: https://towardfreedom.org/story/disaster-breeds-disaster-in-oaxaca/
Available here: https://towardfreedom.org/story/disaster-breeds-disaster-in-oaxaca/
Research Interests: Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Development Studies, and 15 moreRenewable Energy, Wind Energy, Community Resilience, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience, Community Development, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sustainable Development, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Resilience (Sustainability), Disaster Management, Green architecture, Oaxaca (Anthropology), Geogrpahy, and Human Geogrpahy
Research Interests: Mexico, Colonialismo, Resiliencia, Cambio climático, Philosophia, and 14 moreEnergías Renovables, Medio Ambiente, Capitalismo, Teoría Crítica, Relacion Medio Ambiente Y Sociedad, América Latina, Teoria Crítica Social, Desarrollo sostenible, Economia Verde, Neoliberalismo, Post Extractivismo Y Derechos De La Naturaleza, Ciencias De La Tierra, Extractivismo, and Las “Economías De Frontera” En La Historia Del Capitalismo
Bernie’s Green New Deal (GND) is not a clear-cut green capitalist swindle. Instead, it is an impressive environmental policy vision that retains serious miscalculations that demand immediate consideration and redress. See here:... more
Bernie’s Green New Deal (GND) is not a clear-cut green capitalist swindle. Instead, it is an impressive environmental policy vision that retains serious miscalculations that demand immediate consideration and redress.
See here: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/green-new-deal-part-II-good-bad-and-the-ugly.html
See here: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/green-new-deal-part-II-good-bad-and-the-ugly.html
Research Interests: Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, Development Studies, Climate Change, and 15 morePolitical Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Climate change policy, Political Science, Anarchism, Green Marketing, Green architecture, Green New Deal, New Social Movements, Green Movement, Environmentalism, Sutainable Development, Clean technologies innovation and introduction, Political Ecology and Economy, Renewable Energy and Climate Change, and Public Policy
The Green New Deal has serious implications for rural landscapes. In fact, GND is not all that “green” and risks exaggerating extractive activities. Published on Terra Nullius Blog:... more
The Green New Deal has serious implications for rural landscapes. In fact, GND is not all that “green” and risks exaggerating extractive activities.
Published on Terra Nullius Blog: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/preliminary-comments-on-the-green-new-deal-part-i-.html
Published on Terra Nullius Blog: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/preliminary-comments-on-the-green-new-deal-part-i-.html
Research Interests: Geography, Human Geography, Development Economics, Economic Geography, Anthropology, and 10 moreDevelopment Studies, Climate Change, Political Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sustainable Development, Green Economy & Green Jobs Perspectives, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Geogrpahy, and Green Technology
Using anarchist critique to unearth the ‘roots’ of authoritarian populism can offer a productive gateway for understanding the origins and continuation of socio-ecological and economic crises.... more
Using anarchist critique to unearth the ‘roots’ of authoritarian populism can offer a productive gateway for understanding the origins and continuation of socio-ecological and economic crises.
https://entitleblog.org/2019/02/07/reflections-on-authoritarian-populism-democracy-technology-and-ecological-destruction/
https://entitleblog.org/2019/02/07/reflections-on-authoritarian-populism-democracy-technology-and-ecological-destruction/
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Sociology, Social Theory, Geography, Human Geography, and 15 morePolitical Geography and Geopolitics, Anthropology, Development Studies, Political Ecology, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Anarchism, Anarchist Studies, Populism, Resistance (Social), Political Geography, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Authoritarianism, and Post-Anarchism
The Peruvian state is laying military siege to enforce extraction operations; ironically, land defenders are the ones branded as terrorists.
https://entitleblog.org/2018/06/14/two-tales-of-terrorism-from-the-tia-maria-conflict-peru/
https://entitleblog.org/2018/06/14/two-tales-of-terrorism-from-the-tia-maria-conflict-peru/
Research Interests: Geography, Human Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Social Geography, Latin American Studies, and 27 moreDevelopment Economics, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Development Studies, Climate Change, Political Ecology, Climate Change Adaptation, Community Development, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Climate change policy, Sustainable Development, Anarchism, Anarchist Studies, Rural Development, Anthropology of Development, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Political Geography, Peruvian History, Cultural Anthropology, Political Ecology (Anthropology), Anthropology of Peru, Geogrpahy, Latin America, Critical Agrarian Studies, Latinoamerica, South America, and Climate Change in Developing Countries
Industrial-scale renewable energy does nothing to remake exploitative relationships with the earth, and instead represents the renewal and expansion of the present capitalist order. Read here:... more
Industrial-scale renewable energy does nothing to remake exploitative relationships with the earth, and instead represents the renewal and expansion of the present capitalist order.
Read here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3797-end-the-green-delusions-industrial-scale-renewable-energy-is-fossil-fuel
Read here: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3797-end-the-green-delusions-industrial-scale-renewable-energy-is-fossil-fuel
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Social Theory, Geography, Human Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, and 40 moreEnvironmental Geography, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, International Relations, Social Anthropology, Development Studies, Climate Change, International Studies, International Development, Wind Energy, Geopolitics, Climate Change Adaptation, Social and Cultural Anthropology, International Security, Climate change policy, Environmental Anthropology, Sustainable Development, Anarchism, International Political Economy, Anarchist Studies, Rural Development, Critical Geography, Extractive industries (Economic Anthropology), Anthropology of Development, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Political Geography, Mexico (Anthropology), Environmental Security, Latin American Cultural Studies, Post-Anarchism, Mexico, México, Latin America, Solar & Wind Energy, Climate Change and Food Security, EXTRACTION, Interntional Relation, Climate change adaptation measures, Climate Change in Developing Countries, and Anthropology of Infrastructure
This is a blog post on the Standplaats Wereld anthropology website that discusses extraction and the politics of anthropology turning a blind eye to the impacts of the green economy. SEE LINK:... more
This is a blog post on the Standplaats Wereld anthropology website that discusses extraction and the politics of anthropology turning a blind eye to the impacts of the green economy.
SEE LINK: http://standplaatswereld.nl/2017/11/24/spreading-sacrifice-areas-in-anthropology/
SEE LINK: http://standplaatswereld.nl/2017/11/24/spreading-sacrifice-areas-in-anthropology/
Research Interests: Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Social Geography, and 26 moreEnvironmental Geography, Development Economics, Economic Geography, Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Development Studies, Climate Change, International Development, Climate Change Adaptation, Political Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Climate change policy, Anthropology of Food, Sustainable Development, Critical Geography, Climate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Political Geography, Cultural Anthropology, Development, Sustainable Developments, Climate Change Impacts, Green Technology, Green Energy, and Climate Change and Food Security
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An essay version of a speech: The Green Economy is the Continuation of War By Other Means, published on the Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (CNS) Website, Febuary 2, 2016.
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This op-ed article briefly summarized the conflict over wind energy development in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Published online at CounterPunch on June 4, 2015 this article was written in the mists of social upheaval over... more
This op-ed article briefly summarized the conflict over wind energy development in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Published online at CounterPunch on June 4, 2015 this article was written in the mists of social upheaval over elections in Southern Mexico, where the town of Alvaro Obregon, fending off industrial wind turbine and fighting for indigenous autonomy, was facing threat of military occupation.