Pub Date : 2021-12-05DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2021.2010348
S. Sen
SUDEEP SEN’s [www.sudeepsen.org] prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Rain, Aria (A. K. Ramanujan Translation Award), Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 (London Magazine Editions), EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House), Kaifi Azmi: Poems | Nazms (Bloomsbury), and Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann). He has edited influential anthologies, including: The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry, World English Poetry, and Modern English Poetry by Younger Indians (Sahitya Akademi). Blue Nude: Ekphrasis & New Poems (Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize) and The Whispering Anklets are forthcoming. Sen’s works have been translated into over 25 languages. His words have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Financial Times, Herald, Poetry Review, Literary Review, Harvard Review, Hindu, Hindustan Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Outlook, India Today, and broadcast on BBC, PBS, CNN IBN, NDTV, AIR & Doordarshan. Sen’s newer work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta), Language for a New Century (Norton), Leela: An Erotic Play of Verse and Art (Collins), Indian Love Poems (Knopf/Random House/Everyman), Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe), Initiate: Oxford New Writing (Blackwell), and Name me a Word (Yale). He is the editorial director of AARK ARTS, the editor of Atlas, and currently the inaugural artist-in-residence at theMuseo Camera. Sen is the first Asian honoured to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and read at the Nobel Laureate Festival. The Government of India awarded him the senior fellowship for “outstanding persons in the field of culture/literature.”
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Pub Date : 2021-12-05DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2021.2007538
David N. Pellow, E. Williams, Ana Rosa Rizo-Centino
ABSTRACT How can university scholars and community activists effectively collaborate to produce generative, empowering, and materially impactful knowledge and actions concerning climate change and climate justice? In this paper, we report on a collaborative effort between climate justice non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and university faculty and students to conduct research to produce innovative ideas and insights about just transitions in California and to support social movement campaigns aimed at actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions by keeping fossil fuels in the ground. This collaboration was jointly initiated by faculty and students at a California university alongside leaders of local social movement organizations dedicated to climate justice, as a response to several proposed development projects that would expand oil extraction and fossil fuel use in that state. We argue that these efforts produced a climate justice gestalt that serves to amplify our productivity, power, and impact well beyond what any single partner could do separately or individually with respect to addressing climate injustices in our region. This is our plan for addressing climate change from an anti-authoritarian, participatory approach that will speak to new developments in the scholarship on climate and environmental justice studies and collaborative research methods.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-22DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2021.2005109
D. Lynn
ABSTRACT In the 1930s it was discovered that the Xenopus toad was a useful instrument in urine pregnancy tests. An injection of a woman’s urine into a toad that resulted in the production of ova was proof of pregnancy. Extracted from its native South Africa and imported to the United States, the Xenopus was a popular tool, used to this day for high school dissection and in professional labs. But once replaced by chemical pregnancy tests, labs no longer needed large Xenopus populations and began to release them or give them to pet dealers. Because of its long life, pet owners often tired of the toad and released it into the wild. Today the Xenopus is an invasive amphibian present on four continents feeding on endangered amphibians, creating resilient populations, and becoming a pest. With a warming climate, scientists predict that the carnivorous toad will continue to expand its habitat threatening other species. The medical and pet supply industries led to a large-scale extraction and trade in the Xenopus which has made the toad one of the most widespread amphibian species globally. The Xenopus’s resilience has allowed it to make a home within the destructive environment created by capitalism.
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ABSTRACT This article presents a conceptual definition of the “environmental militias,” which are criminal networks responsible for the rampant increase of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We demonstrate how they combine violence and technology to reinforce the economic interests of agribusiness, illegal mining and logging sectors, providing all the logistic chain that interconnects such illegal activities and the global market. We argue that since the election of Jair Bolsonaro “environmental militias” have not only been supported by the president’s discourse, but also by federal institutions and government programs negatively impacting the Brazilian environmental legislation, reducing monitoring, control and surveillance of environmental assets and the power of institutions responsible for demarcating Indigenous Lands. This article demonstrates the struggle of the Brazilian federal government against scientific data related to deforestation and the increase in human caused fires in the Amazon region. Environmental concern based on scientific criteria has been redefined as “leftist ideology” and the government replaced specialized technicians by military members with no expertise in environmental monitoring or oversight institutions. Finally, we critically analyze market discourses on sustainability by understanding them as corporative reputational strategies rather than effective commitment with the preservation of the Amazon Forest.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2021.1989702
Franca Marquardt
ABSTRACT Within one week in 2019, there were two traffic incidents on the South Circular in Catford, South East London, where one cyclist died and another one was severely injured. At the same time, a new inquest into the death of a nine-year-old resident who had died back in 2013 was being conducted, making the girl the first person in the UK whose cause of death is officially linked to pollution. This article assesses how uneven geographies of toxicity and oppressive infrastructures within cities highlight the entanglements of histories of colonialism and capitalism, as well as race and inequalities. Forms of slow violence are being executed by intentionally building and maintaining cities according to hegemonic visions of progress, marking some lives and landscapes as favourable and others as “disposable.” Hence, in order to work against the silencing of voices, more attention needs to be brought to the experiences of people living in toxic environments. Speaking to fundamental registers of visibility and politics of knowledge, this article asserts how people create meanings by relating to each other and their environments in order to resist the dehumanising consequences of toxic violence.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2021.2009640
D. Faber, Benjamin Levy, Christina Schlegel
In reaction to the economic and ecological injustices perpetrated by neoliberal capitalism and corporate-led globalization, as well as the global pandemic and deepening climate crisis, a deeper shade of green politics is coming of age throughout the world (Bond and Dorsey 2010; MartinezAlier 2020). Peoples traditionally relegated to the political margins of society are challenging the wholesale depredation of their land, water, air, and community health. At the forefront of this new wave of activism are thousands of grassroots environmental justice (EJ) organizations working to reverse the disproportionate social and ecological hardships borne by Indigenous peoples, communities of color, ethnic minorities, peasants, women, rural communities and working class families. The importance of these struggles cannot be overstated. Now, more than ever, a truly massbased, international movement devoted to environmental justice and ecological socialism is needed to confront the global ecological crisis and existential threat to humanity that is climate change. There are many major challenges confronting activists as they try to forge such a movement. These challenges include the formation of a master “frame” that allows for activists to identify with the goals of the movement; the adoption of suitable organizational structures that will allow the movement to grow and prosper; as well as the utilization of effective political strategies and tactics necessary to bring about real transformation of dominative state structures, racial and gender oppression, class exploitation, and the global capitalist system. Forging a socialist EJ movement is a daunting task. Transnational coalition building requires that activists frame EJ issues in ways that resonate with those in both the global South and North, and experience shows that
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2021.1971402
Özge Yüksekkaya
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Pub Date : 2021-07-08DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2021.1952464
Ingrid Hanon
ABSTRACT The article develops a critical analysis of the work and thought of Moishe Postone. First, I highlight his main contributions to the understanding of the mode of production of capital, the way the categories of value and abstract labour shape the labour process, and the ongoing reconstitution of socially necessary labour time. Second, I expose his contradictory proposal to free workers from capital, while considering Cuban socialist experience in the agrarian sector as starting point for the critique.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2021.1959857
Elliott Woodhouse
Geoengineering is a discipline that thinks big. Within its aegis are ideas straight out of science fiction: technologies to cool the planet with artificial trees (McFarlan 2016), simulated volcanic...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2021.1996745
S. Fassbinder
Facing Catastrophe is the latest published effort of Carl Boggs, a professor of social science in southern California and the author of numerous books on social theory and on international activisms of various sorts. It’s ultimately a book about the future. To be sure, it’s a book about the present moment, which it characterizes as an “impasse.” So in dwelling on that present moment, it’s a book about approaching that future, such as can only be hazarded a guess. Perhaps we could say it’s a book about how people are not approaching the real future, the one with the disasters up ahead, and going with corporate hegemony, meat-production, resource-extraction, and the “McDonaldized society” instead. The conclusion to the chapter about politics makes the “impasse” result of all of this quite clear. Boggs says:
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