Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations
Book presentation with the editors and authors Panagiota Kotsila and Salvatore Paolo De Rosa – and Lukas Kluge as a discussant.
This book is a collection of stories about how movements against environmental and climate injustice globally converge into broader struggles for overcoming the racist, patriarchal and colonial structures of global capitalism while creating worlds of life, dignity and justice.
Insurgent Ecologies takes readers on an inspiring journey across key sites of ecological crisis and contestation, showing how revolutionary politics can emerge from the convergences between place-based, often disconnected struggles. These essays speak to longstanding debates in political ecology and radical thought around how to advance transformations in, against and beyond capitalism.
The collection starts from the belief that the environmental struggles taking place across the Global South and North are a necessary component of such transformations. The book presents the visions and strategies of struggles organized around sovereignty, land, climate, feminisms and labour, written by scholar-activists rooted in territories around the globe, offering locally grounded yet global perspectives.
Each story reflects on how to build solidarity and comradeship across diverse struggles and how new political subjects and transformative collective projects for social-ecological justice are created.
Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations (Fernwood Press, 2024) is edited by Undisciplined Environments, a collective of political ecology researchers founded in 2014 and organized around an online platform by the same name. The collective’s main purpose is to contribute to socio-ecological struggles and radical thought and practice, toward more egalitarian and ecologically sound futures. Furthermore, it aims to encourage the growth of radical political ecology networks at a transnational level.
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Salvatore Paolo De Rosa is a researcher at CApE. His work spans the fields of anthropology, political ecology, and environmental humanities, with a focus on environmental conflicts, grassroots organizing and climate justice movements. Currently, he studies the repression and policing of activism. He's a member of the collective Undisciplined Environments. |
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Panagiota Kotsila is a senior researcher at ICTA-UAB. She leads the project IMBRACE, which looks at what shapes immigrants’ climate health vulnerability and situated knowledges. Her work is rooted in feminist political ecology, contributing a cultural and embodied understanding of socio-environmental change and health repercussions. She is a founding member of the Undisciplined Environments collective. |
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Lukas Kluge has been engaged in the climate struggle for six years as a central organiser and protest participant in Nødbremsen and Extinction Rebellion DK. He's author to the book For Alt i Verden - Idéer til den danske klimakamp (English: Ideas for the Danish Climate Struggle) and studies M.Sc. Climate Change in his spare time. |
See the publisher’s page of the book.