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Volume 26, Number 1, 2015: Long Live Rojava!

Volume 26, Number 1, 2015: Long Live Rojava!

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This issue features an editorial dedicated to the multifaceted Kurdish struggles in Rojava, environmental politics and injustices in South Africa, the Gezi Park uprisings, and a series of guest-edited articles linking environmental risks to social struggles in different parts of the world. Additionally, there is a review of Silvia Federici’s Reproduction at Point Zero and a round of critical reviews of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything, as well as Karen Bell’s Achieving Environmental Justice.

House Organ

Rojava

Poetry

Plastic Bridge; Taxi
by Joseph Han

Contradictions

Of Faustian Pacts and Mega-projects: The Politics and Economics of the Port Expansion in the South Basin of Durban, South Africa
by Ashwin Desai

Environmental Risks and Social Struggles

Environment and the Citizens: Popular Struggles, Popular Epidemiology, and Other Forms of Resistance “From Below” in Areas at Risk Worldwide—An Introduction
by Pietro Saitta & Ilaria Lazzerini

Fires of Pianura: The Antidump Struggle in the Western Outskirt of Naples
by Marco De Biase

Analyzing Resistance from below: A Proposal of Analysis Based on Three Struggles against Dams in Spain and Mexico
by Alice Poma & Tommaso Gravante

Elephants Never Forget: Capturing Nature at the Border of Ruhuna National Park (Yala), Sri Lanka
by Mara Benadusi

Poetry

Ko’olau: the metaphor is the lie; Hurricano madrigal; Framing
by Julia Wieting

Movements

The Gezi Park Resistance from an Environmental Justice and Social Metabolism Perspective
by Begüm Özkaynak, Cem İskender Aydιn, Pιnar Ertör-Akyazι & Irmak Ertör

Book Reviews

A Strong Book, but Under Stress
by Daniel Tanuro & Judith Watson

Naomi Klein: Extreme Energy and the Urgency of Radical Change
by Jane Hindley

Three Decades of Reflection on Drudgery
by Sutapa Chattopadhyay

Environmental Justice: A Framework for Rating It
by Daniel Whittall