"This volume aims to make visible the many innovative resistances, alternatives and cosmologies emanating from the Global South. Detailing case studies from Asia, Africa, and the Americas, the contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions to the current ecological and climate crises. This work highlights how non-capitalist, anti-colonial, and non-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic, holistic, and appropriate in the face of the global ecological crises"--
This volume makes visible the many innovative resistances and solutions emanating from the Global South, in response to the injustices of the current global ecological crises. Rooted in contemporary ecological imperialism, these crises are subjecting marginalized communities in the Global South to the worst socio-ecological repercussions worldwide, whilst mainstream environmental policies and solutions reproduce market-based approaches premised on a hegemonic Western world-view.
The book details a wide variety of case studies from across Asia, Africa and the Americas, such as deforestation activism in Cambodia and grassroots community organisation against large scale land transactions in Liberia among many others. The contributors, composed of a mix of academics and activists, propose bottom-up solutions to the current ecological and climate crises. This work highlights how anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-anthropocentric alternatives and movements are realistic, holistic, and appropriate in the face of global ecological crises.
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Highlights the transformative agency, innovative solutions, and radical praxis emanating from communities in the Global South in response to the climate crisis.
List of Illustrations
I Introduction
Framing Socio-ecological Crises in the World-System: Living Histories and
Deep Structures - Mariko Frame and Felix Mantz
Coming Home - Haider Khan
II Existing Struggles
1. The Pathalgadi Movement of Jharkhand, India: Three Theses on Indigenous
Rebellion at the Limits of Liberal Democratic Politics - Pratik Raghu
2. Challenging Hegemonic Water Governance: Ontological Plurality in Sikkim,
India - Dawa Yangi Sherpa
3. Scoping Coercive Technologies of Extraction: Lessons from Struggles
against Land Grabbing in Tanzania - Felix Mantz
4. Participatory Video Is a Revolutionary Tool! - Samwel Nangiria and Nick
Lunch
5. Between the Forbidden Forests: Conservation in the Krahn-Bassa Proposed
Protected Areas (KPPAs) in Liberia - Ali D. Kaba and Baba Sillah
6. The Boeung Kak Lake Evictions and the Experience of Women in Cambodian
Land Dispossessions - Mariko Frame
7. Community-Led Activism in Cambodias Prey Lang Forest - Narith Nou, Mariko
Frame, Felix Mantz, and Sam Grant
III Pluriversal Perspectives for and beyond Resistance
8. Nourishing Communal Territories of Life: Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous
Resurgences beyond Earth Crisis - Leonardo Figueroa Helland, Angela Martinez,
Neftalķ Reyes Mendez, Angélica Castro Rodrķguez, Juan José López Negrete,
Mileida Correa, José Gualinga, and Ēaca Yvaire
9. Lifting up the Liberation Praxis of Africana Indigenous Peoples, Peasants,
and Urban Slum Survivors - Samuel Leguizamon Grant
10. Racial Capitalism, Imperialism, Eco-Apartheid, and the Necessity of
Fundamental Social Change - Rose M. Brewer
11. Estranged in Urban Beirut: Anthropocentric Ecological Destruction,
Mysticist Shia Islam, and Epistemological Alternatives - Ali Kassem
12. Affective Multispecies Resistance as Radical Imaginations - Abigail Pérez
Aguilera
IV Conclusion
Connecting Struggles: Final Reflections and Key Insights Felix Mantz and
Mariko Frame
Notes on Contributors
Index
Mariko Frame is an international political economist whose research focuses on critical political economy perspectives on the environment. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, USA.
Samuel Grant has been an organizer working through the intersections of environmental, economic, racial, gender and cultural justice for decades. Since 1990 he has been on faculty at Metropolitan State University, USA, where he created the Minor in Community Organizing and Development. He currently leads MN350 as Executive Director. He is also a fellow of the Institute of the Environment, University of Minnesota, USA.
Felix Mantz is a doctoral researcher and teaching associate at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His doctoral thesis examines persisting colonial relations to land and ecologies in Tanzania by drawing on a variety of methods, including archival research and interviews. His latest work can be found in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), and Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD).
