Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2022.2152066
J. Gaudry
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2022.2144397
L. F. Chaves, J. Runk, L. Bergmann, N. Gottdenker
ABSTRACT Disease ecology has the potential to help build a new society where the contradictions of our time are recognized and confronted in the pursuit of a more considered, and just, understanding of the interrelationships of organisms with the environment. Unfortunately, the discipline is facing a major dilemma as the advent of new technologies, access to remote data, and lack of engagement with the contexts where diseases emerge and are transmitted, has resulted in the creation of Blame Local Indigenous and Peasant Populations (BLIPP) narratives that align with hegemonic globalizing agents and processes. Here, in the first half of a two-part essay about reifications in disease ecology, thinking with dialectical materialism, we demystify BLIPP narratives around land use change in disease emergence.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2022.2140065
Valeria Graziano, Kim Trogal
ABSTRACT This paper presents the findings of comparative research into the labor, organizational and spatial practices of a new kind of hybrid civic spaces that we refer to as “social impact-driven repair shops.” These are an emerging typology of urban spaces dedicated to repaired and up-cycled items that also go beyond the functions of a traditional shop. Significantly, these shops are run not purely for economic reasons, but rather to position themselves as local, socio-political interventions aiming to confront the environmental impacts of waste, support ethical and affordable consumption, alongside providing new opportunities for employment. We focused our fieldwork (2017–2019) on three such “repair shops”: ReTuna Återbruksgalleria in Sweden, The Loop in the United Kingdom and RiMaflow in Italy. We discuss the differing labor and spatial practices taking place within each while highlighting some of the tensions that emerge, and the implications for some of the wider debates in repair studies, “green work” and circular economies. We conclude by identifying two divergent and potentially antagonistic circuits of repair which we name “repair as solidarity” and “repair as poor economy,” which we propose as a lens to better grasp the different logics underpinning the transition to circular economies.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2022.2141285
J. Wilt
ABSTRACT Considerable ecological Marxist analysis has investigated the centrality of nonhuman natures such as soil, forests, and rivers in capitalist accumulation: not only the importance of overcoming natural barriers but appropriating the unpaid productivity of natures for free or low cost. The frozen materiality of ice, however, is a particularly unruly and disagreeable nature that defies most attempts to easily subsume it within capital. This article examines the efforts by the Polar Gas Project – a lengthy pipeline proposed during the 1970s that would have shipped large quantities of natural gas from the Canadian Arctic to southern markets – and specific attempts to develop reliable ice science to facilitate its development. Applying Collard and Dempsey’s analytic of five orientations of capitalist natures, this article examines Polar Gas’ attempted production of ice as an “underground infrastructure,” “outcast surplus,” and “threat.” Through this, empirical evidence of scientific work to produce capitalist natures is detailed and the specific materiality of ice examined in the context of proposed accumulation, revealing the historical limits of capital’s production and remaking of nature.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2022.2140066
Antonia Schuster, I. Otto
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Pub Date : 2022-10-24DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2022.2134900
C. Aldridge
ABSTRACT Historians have long demarcated between the public, political, and economic writings of revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg and her personal affinity for plants and animals. This article, however, discovers and articulates a Luxemburgian ecosocialism across her work. This paper argues that Luxemburg interpreted nature as possessing its own order that resists the imposition of capitalist and imperialist (dis)orders. Luxemburgian ecosocialism, therefore, lies between the appreciation of beauty one finds in the Marxism of William Morris and the active participation of nature in the historic revolt against imperialism one finds in the Book of Exodus. According to Luxemburgian ecosocialism, that which unites Luxemburg's letters and Herbarium to her Die Akkumulation des Kapitels is a confidence that empires overextend themselves in their exploitation of human beings and nature, and that the natural order accordingly fights back. Beyond Luxemburg, this paper emphasizes the importance of fiction and illusion for ecosocialist storytelling, and argues for an ecosocialist vision that takes as its starting point not the elitism of aesthetic preference but radical forms of solidarity with suffering creation.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2022.2132968
B. Marosan
ABSTRACT In this study, I offer a radically biocentric conception of ecosocialism, which is based upon essentially Marxist considerations. In my interpretation, this version of ecosocialism could be conceived as a logical consequence of Marx’s original theory of emancipation. For this reason, biocentric ecosocialism can also be understood as the “theory of radical emancipation”. Radical emancipation entails never treating other living beings (or their communities and populations) entirely as instrumental means. A crucial insight of this study is that the emancipation of humankind can never be separated from the emancipation of nature. This is a moderately ecocentric and moderately holistic theory which, in my interpretation, is capable of founding fundamental rights to all living beings. At a practical level, biocentric ecosocialism encompasses the principle of “dynamic equilibrium,” which relates to the maximization of potential for all living beings. Dynamic equilibrium has three subprinciples: (1) maximizing biodiversity and potential for the entire ecosystem of the planet, (2) minimizing the suffering of living beings, and (3) maximizing the potential of humans, as self-conscious living beings.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2022.2129399
Nathalie Bergame
ABSTRACT The contradictions of commoning practices have recently gained increasing attention in critical research. As such, research has shown that collective practices of gardening in common produce contradictory effects not necessarily in line with progressive ideas of the common. Instead of a general dismissal of commoning due to its documented contradictions, I suggest looking beyond the naïve wishing away of contradictions by way of deploying Marxist dialectics as a research perspective from which to explicate and understand underlying processes. Rather than undermining the common's potential as a post-capitalist alternative, this article uses contradictions as an analytical lens through which the meaning of six contradictions of urban garden commons identified in the academic literature is explored. This article concludes that a conceptual focus on contradictions allows for a reflexive and critical research practice revealing the complexity of dialectical relations through which the practice of gardening propels changes but also the reproduction of existing relations.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2022.2165259
Jaume Franquesa
ABSTRACT In Spain, wind energy development has followed a centralized, extractivist model, with wind farms concentrated in peripheralized and impoverished rural territories. Wind developers benefit from these regions’ low land value and lack of political power, thus reproducing patterns of geographical hierarchy and strengthening processes of uneven development. This paper examines these dynamics as they have unfolded in Southern Catalonia, a poor, rural area that concentrates a vast array of energy infrastructure. My ethnographic description focuses on what I call practices of devaluation: the variety of mechanisms through which wind energy companies erode both the economic value and the cultural worth of these regions, especially the land and the livelihoods it supports. Resistance to wind energy development in Southern Catalonia thus emerges as a reaction against these practices of devaluation, that is to say, as struggles to assert worth and preserve value. Overall, I argue that local experiences and cultural frameworks surrounding energy infrastructure reveal the inequities of existing processes of energy transition while foregrounding alternative logics to the dominant extractivist model.
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