Political ecology III: Who are ‘the people’?

Loftus, Alex

doi:10.1177/0309132519884632

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“…Pawson 2015; Fagan 2019), as well as the sociopolitical trajectories of the impacts of the new epoch (cf. Ernstson and Swyngedouw 2018;Loftus 2019).…”

Section: The Human Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographic Education in the Anthropocene: Cultivating Citizens at the Neoliberal University

Naylor

Veron

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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In the Anthropocene, the charge to address climate change has been taken up by youth. From the landmark climate lawsuit filed in 2015 by twenty-one young people to secure the legal right to a safe climate to the thousands of climate marches and school strikes that took place in 2018 and 2019, young people are making their voices heard. Many undergraduate students enter universities passionate about solving problems related to the changing climate; however, they arrive at a site of conflicting values about education. As the university increasingly treats students as customers, the ability to educate and foster a new generation of climate change-informed and action-oriented citizens is challenged. In this article, we ask how we cultivate citizens in the geography classroom in the Anthropocene. Drawing on our experience cocreating and teaching a climate change and food security class for sophomores, we examine this question to understand the place of geographic education in the neoliberal university in the Anthropocene. Here, we detail an example of coteaching and using a problem-based learning task based on pressing climate change issues as a way of modeling and practicing problem solving that reinforces students' identification as agents who can act in a climate-changing world. We find that teaching from both a climate science and social or cultural perspective is an important component of students considering where they fit in the Anthropocene. In this article, we offer a model for geography educators for integrative educational experiences, translating student passion for solving problems into momentum toward change.

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“…Pawson 2015; Fagan 2019), as well as the sociopolitical trajectories of the impacts of the new epoch (cf. Ernstson and Swyngedouw 2018;Loftus 2019).…”

Section: The Human Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographic Education in the Anthropocene: Cultivating Citizens at the Neoliberal University

Naylor

Veron

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…This direction enriches the field with new research methods, theoretical framings and practices from the Global South, thus provincializing north-centered UPE debates ( Lawhon et al., 2014 , 2016 ; Loftus 2019a Goldfischer et al., 2019 ). Such scholarship has suggested giving more attention to everyday practices ( Loftus, 2012 ), a more nuanced examination of power as diffused and relational ( Lawhon, 2012 ; Lawhon et al, 2014 ), and an emphasis on race, gender and location ( Njeru, 2006 ; Truelove, 2011 , Loftus, 2019b ). Furthermore, the importance of conceptualizing environmental justice issues beyond the usual North–South divide ( Ranganathan and Balazs, 2015 ; see Keil, forthcoming , for an extension of this argument) is only growing as extended urban systems are now being prepared for the climate emergency through global systems of financing, knowledge and engineering ( Goh, 2019 ).…”

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Moving urban political ecology beyond the ‘urbanization of nature’

Tzaninis

Mandler

Kaïka

et al. 2020

Progress in Human Geography

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Urban political ecology (UPE) focuses on unsettling traditional understandings of ‘cities’ as ontological entities separate from ‘nature’ and on how the production of settlements is metabolically linked with flows of capital and more-than-human ecological processes. The contribution of this paper is to recalibrate UPE to new urban forms and processes of extended urbanization. This exploration goes against the reduction of what goes on outside of cities to processes that emanate unidirectionally from cities. Acknowledging UPE’s rich intellectual history and aiming to enrich rather than split the field, this paper identifies four emerging discourses that go beyond UPE’s original formulation.

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“…This call continues to breach what at times feels like the gap between agrarian political ecology and urban environmental justice by highlighting the key role that white supremacy plays in shaping nature–society relations. While this symposium in Antipode is the first collective effort to build upon this idea of abolition ecology, the notion has already received other commentary, expansion and refinement, working to establish more attention to the logics of racialisation shaping nature–society relations and political ecology literatures, as opposed to contextual backdrop (Conroy 2019; Davies 2019; Derickson 2018; Goodling 2019; Loftus 2019; McCreary and Milligan 2018; Pulido and De Lara 2018; Ramírez 2020; Roy 2019; Simpson and Bagelman 2018; Wright 2019).…”

Section: Abolition Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

On Abolition Ecologies and Making “Freedom as a Place”

2020

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This introduction calls for political ecology to systematically engage with the ways that white supremacy shapes human relationships with land through entangled processes of settler colonialism, empire and racial capitalism. To develop the analytic of abolition ecology, we begin with the articulation of W.E.B. Du Bois' abolition democracy together with Ruth Wilson Gilmore's spatially attuned analytic of abolition geography. Rather than define communities by the violence they suffer, abolition ecologies call for attention to radical place-making and the land, air and water based environments within which places are made. To that end, we suggest that an abolition ecology demands attention to the ways that coalitional land-based politics dismantle oppressive institutions and to the promise of abolition, which Gilmore describes as making "freedom as a place". Resumen: Esta introducci on hace una llamada a la ecolog ıa-pol ıtica para que critique sistem aticamente las formas en que la supremac ıa blanca orienta a las relaciones entre lose seres humanos y la tierra a trav es de los procesos de colonialismo, imperialismo y capitalismo racial. Para desarrollar el concepto de la ecolog ıa abolicionista, comenzamos articulando la propuesta de democracia de la abolici on de W.E.B. Du Bois de con el concepto de Ruth Wilson Gilmore de la geograf ıa de abolici on con su anal ıtica atinado a lo espacial. En vez de definir a comunidades por la violencia que sufren, la ecolog ıa abolicionista requiere atenci on a hacer-lugares radicales y sobre los entornos basados en tierra, aire, y agua en que se hacen los lugares. Con ese fin, sugerimos que una ecolog ıa abolicionista exige an alisis de las formas en que una pol ıtica coalicional basada en la tierra desmantela las instituciones opresivas y la promesa de la abolici on, que Gilmore relata como hacer "la libertad como un lugar".

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Political ecology III: Who are ‘the people’?

Cited by 15 publications

References 67 publications

Geographic Education in the Anthropocene: Cultivating Citizens at the Neoliberal University

Geographic Education in the Anthropocene: Cultivating Citizens at the Neoliberal University

Moving urban political ecology beyond the ‘urbanization of nature’

On Abolition Ecologies and Making “Freedom as a Place”

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