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Images and rituals of resistance at COP30
Deborah BronzHey Max Planck! You can help us and join the line: On badges and the politics of visibility at COP30
Arne HarmsSkill, Sticky Hands, and the Serenity Prayer
Eleanor AndrewsArticle 9.1 and the Road to Implementation
Marium SheikhUNFCCC SB62 Evaluation: Participation, Power, and Pluralism
Vera da Silva Sinha‘Aboriginal-realism’ as a Perspective of Living to Understand the Rural Life of India
Dhiraj Kumar and Keyoor PathakIs the UNFCCC climate governance truly pluralist? Examining the Loss and Damage Fund
Aritra Chakrabarty and Alexis Belle TaterFrom the Archives
In our "From the Archives" Series, we link archived blog material to current themed collections.
Plantations: Extraction, Extinction, and Emergence
Sophie ChaoPlantations produce many of the commodities that structure everyday life—from the palm oil in processed foods and cosmetics to the soy that feeds industrial livestock, the timber that furnishes our homes, the rubber in our tyres, and the sugar and tea that fill our cupboards. Yet plantations are often imagined as relics of a colonial… more...
Images and rituals of resistance at COP30
Deborah BronzAt the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, in Belém do Pará, my field research at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30/UNFCCC) involved me in circumstances I could never have imagined and which led me to write this account. A fire broke out in the tents… more...
Hey Max Planck! You can help us and join the line: On badges and the politics of visibility at COP30
Arne HarmsOn most days, delegates are rushing through the gate on their way from the city into the premises of COP30’s restricted Blue zone. Not today. On this morning, activists are blocking the gate. On this side of the fence, throngs of delegates congest the street. It is a motley crew of diplomats, lobbyists, activists and… more...
Skill, Sticky Hands, and the Serenity Prayer
Eleanor AndrewsI was hesitant when, in 2009, my then-boyfriend, Tyler, asked if I were interested in keeping bees. I did not much care for honey and was alarmed by the prospect of stings. But when we ended up renting an apartment with a small orchard in the yard, we decided to give it a shot. We… more...
Themed Collection: Toxicity
This series of posts will accompany the 2021 special issue of Environment and Society on “Toxicity.”
“Images abound of plastic bags riding the currents of the Pacific Ocean and collecting in the Mariana Trench; stockpiles of nuclear waste pumped deep into earth’s outer crust; smoke and smog (a fusion of particulate matter and ozone) settling in above sprawling urban colonies, slowly killing its denizens; spent oxygen containers pockmarking the snows of Everest; and billions of pieces of space debris endlessly falling in Low Earth Orbit, just beyond a thin and rapidly changing breathable atmosphere. So goes the narrative of the Anthropocene, a purportedly new geological epoch demarcated by the planetary effects of human activity…” Call for Papers for the Environment and Society Special Issue on Toxicity (Jerry Jacka & Amelia Moore).
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Sensing Cumulative Toxicities
Anita Hardon, Wageningen University, Tait Mandler, University of AmsterdamChemical Colonialism: Environmental justice and industrial epidemics
Yogi Hale Hendlin, Erasmus University RotterdamThemed Collection: Oceans
This series of posts builds upon and expand the issues raised in the 2020 special issue of Environment and Society on “Oceans.” Featuring new content as well as additional perspectives from the authors of the special issue.
“For many, the ocean is the epicenter of evolution as well as the ultimate bellwether for the continued vitality of living systems. It is vast, deep, and mysterious, and simultaneously familiar, intimate, and personal… It is also the site of scientific exploration, geopolitical territorialization, Romantic imagination, capitalist extraction, and shifting everyday relations of love, death, and livelihood… The ocean is both an epic backdrop and an active agent in human activities, at times teeming with living beings and at times emptied of all agency. It is at once dangerous and endangered.” Introduction to the Environment and Society Special Issue on Oceans (Jerry Jacka & Amelia Moore).