Residents of La Barceloneta (Barcelona) integrate historical research in their struggle to reclaim the building of a 100-year-old consumer cooperative back for public use. How can history inspire social transformation? When Aymara people in South-America look ahead they are facing the past. Literally. Researchers who investigated Aymara language and gestures have established that, unlike all … Continue reading Opening a crack in history: memory, historical research and activism
As cyclists struggle to recover their space in the roads, conflicts involving bicycles are attracting more and more attention. Thinking of the road as a commons, as proposed by environmental historian James Longhurst in his new book Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road, may give an entry point to a political ecology perspective. James Longhurst, … Continue reading The road as a commons: An interview with James Longhurst, author of “Bike Battles” (2015)
Se ha liberado el acceso a la revista Ecología Política nº48 (2014), dedicada a la cartografía y el mapeo de conflictos socioambientales. Adjuntamos vínculos a todos los artículos de la revista en PDF. EDITORIAL Marta Conde, Leah Temper, Mariana Walter Los mapas no solo representan el mundo, lo recrean y transforman nuestro entendimiento del mismo … Continue reading Libre acceso a los artículos de la revista Ecología Política nº48 (2014): Cartografía y conflictos
Se ha liberado el acceso a la revista Ecología Política nº47 (2014), dedicado a la ecología política urbana. Editorial Mientras cerrábamos el número 47 de Ecología Política, en Barcelona estallaban las protestas por el desalojo de Can Vies, un centro social okupado de gran raigambre en el barrio de Sants. En Estambul se conmemoraba el … Continue reading Libre acceso a los artículos de la revista Ecología Política nº47 (2014): Ciudades
Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester, on his new book, research experiences in Spain, Spanish literary inspirations and next research project. For most (urban) political ecologists, Erik Swyngedouw needs little introduction. Erik is a prolific writer and inspiring intellectual whose research over the past decades has focused on geographical political economy, … Continue reading “Liquid Power”: An interview with Erik Swyngedouw
The European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE) has launched the international conference UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS, co-organized by the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and the Environmental Humanities Laboratory of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. The conference will be held in Stockholm between March 20-23, 2016. The conference is organized around … Continue reading Call for papers: International Conference on Political Ecology: UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS
By Santiago Gorostiza & Hug March* Entre bombardeos y el cerco de las tropas franquistas, las empresas encargadas del suministro de agua de Madrid y Barcelona también se revolucionaron. Durante la década de 1930, los modelos de gestión del agua de Barcelona y Madrid eran polos opuestos. En la capital, Canales del Lozoya –nombre que … Continue reading La guerra por el agua en la Guerra Civil española
By Emanuele Leonardi* & Santiago Gorostiza The scholar-activist Laura Pulido suggests that environmental racism is a structural form of violence sanctioned by the state, and provokes us to think of the state as a racialised entity whose agenda perpetuates racial violence and class domination. Internationally renowned scholar-activist Laura Pulido (University of Southern California) animated the … Continue reading Environmental racism as state-sanctioned racial violence
First published in 1991, Ecología Política is an international bi-annual Spanish-language journal that focuses on ecological debates with special attention paid to environmental and political conflicts. The current issue (48) has just been published under the title: "Cartografía y conflictos. Herramientas para resistir, movilizar y construir" (Cartography and conflicts. Tools to resist, mobilise and build). This issue of Ecología Política … Continue reading New issue of “Ecología Política”: exploring cartography and environmental conflict
After almost eight decades the story of the collectivisation of Aigües de Barcelona during the time of the Spanish Civil War emerges as highly insightful given today's context of European crisis and the parallel worldwide trend towards re-municipalisation of water management. * The changes that Barcelona’s Avinguda Diagonal underwent since it was renamed and lost … Continue reading Lessons from the Collectivisation of Aigües de Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939)
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