Scientific Papers
New: “Gendered violence martyring Filipina environmental defenders”
New research by DalenaTran, from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB), Spain. Read it now in the journal of The Extractive Industries and Society at Science …
Coastal sand mining of heavy mineral sands: Contestations, resistance, and ecological distribution conflicts at HMS extraction frontiers across the world
By Arpita Bisht and Joan Martinez-Alier First published: 27 December 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13358 Abstract Coastal sand mining for metals involves extraction of heavy mineral sands (HMS), which are sedimentary deposits of dense minerals that accumulate in …
Arts, place, and sacrifice zones: restoration of damaged relational values in a Chilean sacrifice zone
By Teresa Sanz & Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos. Teresa Sanz Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de la UAB, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos Johns Hopkins University-Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public …
Ecologies of contention: how more-than-human natures shape contentious actions and politics
By Arnim Scheidel, Juan Liu, Daniela Del Bene, Sara Mingorria & Sergio Villamayor-Tomas. Read it now at The Journal of Peasant Studies. ABSTRACT Which role plays the more-than-human world in shaping the possibilities for …
Joan Martínez Alier keynote lecture on the 2022 Balzan Prizewinners Announcement
On the occasion of the 2022 Balzan Prizewinners Announcement, Joan Martínez Alier, 2020 Balzan Prize winner for “Environmental Challenges: Responses from the Social Sciences and the Humanities”, gave a keynote …
Struggles for just conservation: an analysis of India’s biodiversity conservation conflicts
Author: Eleonora Fanari New publication Struggles for just conservation: an analysis of India’s biodiversity conservation conflicts by EnvJustice team member, Eleonora Fanari. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5214 Abstract The protection of the Earth’s remaining biodiversity continues to be …
Knowledge Co-Production in Scientific and Activist Alliances: Unsettling Coloniality
New research article “Knowledge Co-Production in Scientific and Activist Alliances: Unsettling Coloniality”. Authors: Marta Conde – University Pompeu FabraMariana Walter – Universitat Autonoma Barcelona DOI: https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2022.479 ABSTRACT This paper examines alliances between scientists and local groups …
Reply to Orihuela et al’s “Extractivism of the poor”
By J. Martinez-Alier, R. Neyra & M.A. Pérez Rincón Available now at The Extractive Industries and Society Journal https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101065 Abstract According to the EJAtlas, of 97 environmental conflicts in Peru, 20 are deemed as …
New: “Realities beyond reporting: women environmental defenders in South Africa”
Author: Dalena Tran Read now the new research article of Dalena Tran about women environmental defenders in South Africa. Now available on the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2045335 ABSTRACT Women environmental defenders …
‘If there’s no evidence, there’s no victim’: undone science and political organisation in marginalising women as victims of DBCP in Nicaragua
By Grettel Navas ABSTRACT Victims of pesticides are often disregarded when demanding reparations and political action because of the ‘undone science.’ Studies have examined how people organise to rectify the ‘undone science’, …
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