Tag: environmental defenders
The EJAtlas and the Making of the World Movement for Environmental Justice. A “Sociology of Absences”?
Author: Joan Martínez-Alier Published at the University of Toronto Press, at the The Tocqueville Review. Find it here: https://doi.org/10.3138/ttr.44.1.25 Abstract The EJAtlas is an archive of environmental conflicts. It is a collective endeavor. …
A global analysis of violence against women defenders in environmental conflicts
Article by: Dalena Tran & Ksenija Hanaček Published on Nature Sustainability on 05 of June 2023: https://rdcu.be/deOJo Abstract Women environmental defenders face retaliation for mobilizing against extractive and polluting projects, which perpetrate violence against Indigenous, …
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 …
Honouring martyred Filipina environmental defenders on International Women’s Day
Map Credits: Arielle Landau This International Women’s Day, we want to highlight the work of brave women defending their communities despite facing violence, and especially honour martyred Filipina environmental defenders. Out of …
New article: A comparative study of women environmental defenders’ antiviolent success strategies
by Dalena Tran from Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). Abstract This research advances knowledge on the understudied topics of violence against women and their …
Dam violence against environmental defenders
By Daniela del Bene.“Large hydro is a very big part of the solution. I fundamentally believe we have to be involved,” Rachel Kyte of the World Bank has stated. Big dams are …
It’s not just drug dealers that need to worry about inspiration Trump took from Duterte
By Nick Meynen.The battle between autocratic leaders and the global movement for environmental justice heats up.Killing drug dealers through the courts, as US President Donald Trump has just proposed, is …
Environmentalism under Fire
By Burag Gurden. Similar writings by Burag Gurden have recently been published in the Ecologist and several other blogs and media. This article refers to all writings by the same …
Changing social metabolism and environmental conflicts in India and South America
By Joan Martinez-Alier, F. Demaria, Leah Temper, M. WalterAbstractFirstly, we present some environmental conflicts gathered in 2016 in the EJAtlas, selecting a few that have implied deaths of environmental defenders …
The project ENVJUSTICE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 695446)