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Green Gentrification: book review and research provocations
García-Lamarca reviews Gould and Lewis’s new book and highlights three missing and important topics for future research on green gentrification. Does greening whiten? Does greening richen? Does...
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Fault Lines – Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
By Giuseppe Forino* In his recently published book Fault Lines, Giacomo Parrinello delves into the environmental history of two major earthquakes in Sicily in the last century, allowing the earthquakes...
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Pará, bloody Pará
Even when the police doesn’t kill in Pará, Brazil, it still lets others do the killing. The coup and the political power of the rural sector in Brasília have provided Amazonian gunmen with a carte...
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Weaponizing nature
By Patrick Bigger and Benjamin Neimark* Military excursions into low carbon fuels is not a case of military greenwashing but rather one of ‘weaponizing nature’, an approach perpetuating an...
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Climate politics in the long run
By Romain Felli*. Stephen Schneider’s 1976 book The Genesis Strategy offers a stunning preview of contemporary debates over climate policies. According to philosopher of science Bruno Latour, the...
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The Flint Water Crisis: quests for justice and mechanisms of suppression
By Jevgeniy Bluwstein and Rebecca Rutt* The Flint Water Crisis led to different forms of grassroots activism demanding political accountability, transparency and redress. Yet residents’ experiences,...
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by Marco Armiero In a new book, Marco Armiero and Richard Tucker have edited together important contributions to the emerging field of the environmental history of modern migrations. Three main...
View ArticleDisrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in...
by Marco Armiero How many times have we repeated to each other that there is a need, an urgent need, for a political ecology of post-socialist countries? Thereby, we should warmly welcome Stefan...
View ArticleTrump has made our current environmental policy textbooks obsolete
by Melanie DuPuis Current environmental policy textbooks are all stuck in a liberal narrative of environmental progress through political consent. But that era is over, and it has been for a while....
View ArticleMore Shamans, less intolerance! An Indigenous Manifesto at Berlin Film Festival
by Felipe Milanez The premier of the movie Ex-Shaman by Luiz Bolognesi at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival becomes the occasion for spreading a manifesto by Indigenous People of Brazil...
View ArticleRadicalizing the Ecological Transition. Reflections on “Lavoro Natura Valore:...
by Alice Dal Gobbo Emanuele Leonardi's book is an analytically incisive and politically rich contribution towards a radical critique of capitalism. In between a slow and tentative exit from the 2008...
View ArticleUtopias against modernity: Huxley, Serreau and the making of non-capitalist...
by Rocío Hiraldo Primitivist utopias in Coline Serreau’s film La Belle Verte and in Aldous Huxley’s book Island suggest modernity is incompatible with the achievement of green and fair ecologies...
View ArticleThe dystopian world of the Handmaid’s tale 1/2
ENTITLE Blog presents two reflections on the dystopian world of the Handmaid’s tale. In the first, Júlia Hosta Cuy argues that the bleak future depicted in the series and the book should not make us...
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ENTITLE Blog presents two reflections on the dystopian world of the Handmaid’s tale. In the second contribution, Joël Foramitti comments on the different ways that gender, exploitation and nature play...
View ArticleThe enlightenment of Steven Pinker: Eco-modernism as rationalizing the...
by Vijay Kolinjivadi Steven Pinker’s latest book Enlightenment Now celebrates modern technological progress at all costs, and in doing so it ignores the violence of colonialism's subjugation of people...
View ArticleThe political ecology of Cornelius Castoriadis
Ecology was of great interest for Castoriadis, one of the great philosophers of the 20th century. In his later writings, Castoriadis incorporated ecology into his political project of autonomy, based...
View ArticleENTITLE blog: 2018 so far and what’s in store
Dear readers, before closing shop over the month of August, we ENTITLE blog editors want to look back on this past year and announce some exciting changes in store for the blog later this year. ENTITLE...
View ArticleResisting Development: The politics of the zad and NoTav
Alexander Dunlap reviews the book The ZAD and NoTAV: Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence, by the Mauvaise Troupe Collective.
View ArticleCuriosity, relationalities and monkeywrenching: The futures of the Anthropocene
by Daniele Valisena Daniele Valisena reviews the book Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene, edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero and Robert Emmett (University of Chicago...
View ArticleSpecial Issue: “The Making of Caribbean Not-so-Natural Disasters”
Social inequality, colonialism and the commodification of disaster-related recovery are central to explaining the not-so-natural disasters caused by the 2017 Caribbean hurricane season, a recent...
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