Mass incarceration is anathema to the pursuit of public health and environmental justice because carceral systems are inherently anti-ecological and produce illness and disease within and beyond the walls of confinement.
Health and Environmental Justice Struggles in America’s Prisons During a Global Pandemic ★ The Zoological Marx ★ Essence, Alienation and Animal Liberation: Toward a Humanism for Non-Humans ★ Veganism as Left Praxis ★ Green New Deals: What Shapes Green and Deal? ★ Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory: A Rejoinder to Hornborg ★ Commons in the Common Sense: Resisting Enclosures with Anti-Fracking Activists in Lancashire, UK ★ “We Are All Indigenous!” Insurgent Universality on the Extractive Frontier ★ Poetry ★ Review of The Future is Degrowth: a guide to a world beyond capitalism.
Overcoming Hierarchy ⭒ The Crimes of “Environmental Militias” in the Amazon Forest ⭒ Reasserting Humanity in a Polluted Neighbourhood ⭒ Envisioning a Utopian Ecosocialism in the Darkness of the Covid-19 Pandemic ⭒ Towards a Bioregional Planning ⭒ Hornborg’s Response to Somerville ⭒ “Collaborative Research and Action for Climate Justice in California” ⭒ World’s Oddest Toads ⭒ The Sanders-Bookchin Debate ⭒ Misanthropy ⭒ Review of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital
Geographer Kelly Kay discusses the importance of scale as we move to carbon-free energy, just transitions, and the complex overlooked realities of union labor.
Russell Shoatz, Harun Abdul Ra’uf, the indomitable Maroon, will continue to bring light and courage among us. As he would tell us when bidding fare-well: “Straight ahead!”
Critical Conjunctures, Socialist Unity, Radical Prospects ⭒ Russell Maroon Shoatz, Implacable Revolutionary (23 August 1943 – 17 December 2021) ⭒ Moishe Postone, the Mode of Production of Capital and Cuban Agriculture ⭒ The Challenges of a Kurdish Ecofeminist Perspective: Maria Mies, Abdullah Öcalan, and the Praxis of Jineolojî ⭒ A Critique of Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory ⭒ Community and the critique of technology: A revisionist account of an essential concept ⭒ Labor as a Linchpin in Ecosystem Services Conservation: Appropriating Value from Collective Institutions? ⭒ Preparing for Collapse: The Concerning Rise of “Eco-Survivalism” ⭒ Poetry ⭒ Review of Mississippi is Still Burning: Life in the Vortex of Carceral Capitalism
Join members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava in conversation about the history and geography…
Join geographers Maria Jose Mendez and Wesley Carrasco in a conversation about the politics of intersectionality and what the river teaches about life and struggle.
More than 500 women and non-binary people who exercise sexual dissidence dialogued in the first encounter of its type held in Europe during the visit of the Zapatista maritime delegation, Squadron 421
In the inaugural episode of the CNS podcast, join geographers Linda Quiquivix and Noura Alkhalili in a conversation about the destruction of the Palestinian mushaa’ (common lands) and what its defense might mean for decolonization.
Mazen Labban on how the explosion in Beirut on August 4 is another instance of the environmental violence immanent in the circulation of global capital
In the midst of the capitalist storm or civilizational collapse that is underway, the Zapatistas do not take refuge in their islands of resistance to see the world burn.
The stamina of the people has prevented the victory that the U.S.-backed coup regime expected in Bolivia. Resistance to the coup has been successful via three strategies—road blockades, nonviolent protests of thousands
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui on Bolivia: discussions about the current illegitimate government must also take into account the division and degradation the social movements suffered during the tenure of Evo Morales.