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View article: Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research
Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research Open
We investigated intimidation of conservation social scientists, which is ongoing and aimed at silencing or discrediting research findings. Although social scientists share with conservation biologists the desire to understand and address t…
View article: Political ecology and the power of sociology
Political ecology and the power of sociology Open
Political Ecology (PE) is a critical and interdisciplinary field in which environmental change, and struggles are studied as they play out in and across cases in the Global South and North. These studies usually combine analyses of materia…
View article: Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice
Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice Open
This article argues that in order to achieve climate justice, recognition needs to be given more attention in climate research, discourse, and policies. Through the analysis of three examples, we identify formal and discursive recognition …
View article: Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice
Recognising Recognition in Climate Justice Open
We argue that in order to achieve climate justice, recognition needs to be given more attention in climate research, discourse, and policies. Through the analysis of three examples, we identify formal and discursive recognition as central …
View article: Critical climate education: studying climate justice in time and space
Critical climate education: studying climate justice in time and space Open
What education should children and youth be offered about climate mitigation choices? Drawing on critical pedagogy, political ecology, and environmental justice, I here suggest the elaboration of a critical climate education that would pro…
View article: Power theories in political ecology
Power theories in political ecology Open
Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing acces…
View article: Power theories in political ecology
Power theories in political ecology Open
Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing acces…
View article: Nothing succeeds like success narratives: a case of conservation and development in the time of REDD
Nothing succeeds like success narratives: a case of conservation and development in the time of REDD Open
This article provides a case study of a project in Kondoa, Tanzania under the programme Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). It demonstrates how a success narrative came to dominate presentations about the p…