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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · 27d

Brazil week 2) Biesel, S. A. & Mendonça, E. C., (2025) “Racialized land tenure and the colonial present: Political ecologies of dispossession in Northeast Brazil”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6119. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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Racialized land tenure and the colonial present: Political ecologies of dispossession in Northeast Brazil

The article introduces the concept of racialized land tenure to illuminate how colonial land governance systems in Brazil continue to shape dispossession and ecological degradation in post-colonial co...

<em>Maquiagem</em>: Concealing the politicized nature of urban disaster and housing policy in Petrópolis, Brazil

Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · 27d

Brazil week 1) van Minnen, T. N. & Coates, R., (2025) “Maquiagem: Concealing the politicized nature of urban disaster and housing policy in Petrópolis, Brazil”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6223. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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Under the intertwined environmental crises of capitalist urbanization, we argue that policies on housing and disaster are merging in order to (further) conceal widespread socio-ecological degradation ...

What brought us forward: Ciulaku women and their fight for land rights in Taiwan

Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Sep 5

Lin, W., (2025) “What brought us forward: Ciulaku women and their fight for land rights in Taiwan”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1). doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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Drawing on ethnographic research and oral histories, the article highlights how Ciulaku women play a pivotal role in preserving and transmitting collective memories of displacement. These memories, of...

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Aug 31

Lurie, M. R., (2025) “"We have that vision of the future": Indigenous womxn's resistance as environmental protection in the U.S. Southwest”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1). doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

"We have that vision of the future": Indigenous womxn's resistance as environmental protection in the U.S. Southwest

Widespread recognition of the effectiveness of Indigenous land stewardship has largely been met by attempts to instrumentalize Indigenous environmental governance in the service of global conservation...

Connecting urban green infrastructure and environmental justice in South Africa: Integrating social access, ecology, and design

Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pasgaard, M., Breed, C., Engemann Jensen, K. & Brom, P., (2025) “Connecting urban green infrastructure and environmental justice in South Africa: Integrating social access, ecology, and design”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6213. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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Green Infrastructure (GI) connects across a city's urban fabric and exhibits multiple meanings. It inevitably ties to questions about environmental justice. In South Africa, the historical legacy of c...

Sensibilisation: The role of awareness raising in biodiversity conservation in Kanaky/New Caledonia

Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hunter, C. E., (2025) “Sensibilisation: The role of awareness raising in biodiversity conservation in Kanaky/New Caledonia”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 9612. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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Sensibilisation is a French term often translated to "awareness raising" but which encompasses a broader set of practices and philosophies intended to foster behavior change among target audiences. Fo...

Commodification, labor, abstraction: Three key concepts to understand the many-headed hydra of biodiversity offsetting

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jul 27

Chapman, K. & Tait, M., (2025) “Commodification, labor, abstraction: Three key concepts to understand the many-headed hydra of biodiversity offsetting”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6186. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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Natural capital approaches to mitigating the impacts of construction projects, in which environmental harms and mitigations are calculated and then traded, have become dominant features of contemporar...

Review of Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G. 2025. The rise of necro/narco citizenship: Belonging and dying in the Southwest North American Region

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jul 24

Greenberg, J. B., (2025) “Review of Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G. 2025. The rise of necro/narco citizenship: Belonging and dying in the Southwest North American Region”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1).

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A harms-based political ecology: Understanding harms through the wildlife trade

Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jul 24

Duffy, R., Hutchinson, A., Iordachescu, G. & Lappe-Osthege, T., (2025) “A harms-based political ecology: Understanding harms through the wildlife trade”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1). doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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In this article, we examine how political ecology can benefit from greater engagement with green criminology's focus on harms. We do so by developing a harms-based political ecology, which is a useful...

From rebel governance to energy and environmental policies in a post-war setting: The case of the Taliban in Afghanistan

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jul 24

Lambert, L. A., Tayah, J., Adam, H. & Esmail, S., (2025) “From rebel governance to energy and environmental policies in a post-war setting: The case of the Taliban in Afghanistan”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1). doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

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A vast body of literature has established how armed conflicts and wars are harmful to the environment, and it is generally assumed that peace should be beneficial to it. This article investigates the ...

Review of Cruz-Torres, María L. 2023. Pink gold: Women, shrimp, and work in Mexico.

Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jul 16

Greenberg, J. B., (2025) “Review of Cruz-Torres, María L. 2023. Pink gold: Women, shrimp, and work in Mexico.”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1).

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Review of Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste. 2024. More and more and more: An all-consuming history of energy

Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jun 18

Dunlap, A., (2025) “Review of Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste. 2024. More and more and more: An all-consuming history of energy”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1).

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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Reposted by Journal of Political Ecology

Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social · Jun 18

Has someone found a good way of getting money out of research? Don't stop it.

Copy it.

APC charges cost billions. MDPI leads with over $1.7bn (est. 2015-2023). Springer-Nature ‘only’ got $1.1bn and so what do they do?

They copy MDPI.

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Extracting value, losing ground: the critical minerals boom in Palawan - New Mandala

Indigenous lands, livelihoods and unique ecosystems are at threat

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jun 14

We all 'steal time' for those activities, whether workload models allow editing or not, sadly. works.hcommons.org/records/jg2a...

Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University

Co-published by Post Office Press (POP) and Open Humanities Press, this experimental booklet brings together a series of short reflections from members of the Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC) on ...

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Book Review of Benjamin Neimark. 2023. Hottest of the Hotspots: The rise of eco-precarious conservation labor in Madagascar

Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Journal of Political Ecology @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social · Jun 8

Ronoh, S. & Randriamanantena, A., (2025) “Book Review of Benjamin Neimark. 2023. Hottest of the Hotspots: The rise of eco-precarious conservation labor in Madagascar”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1).

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