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Extractive masculinity and the war on subsistence: thinking with Ariel Salleh’s DeColonize EcoModernism!
ABSTRACT Engaging Ariel Salleh’s theorization of the Androcene as a patriarchal–colonial–capitalist ‘debt matrix,’ this commentary article on DeColonize EcoModernism! argues that contemporary ecomodernism—liberal and socialist—extends a war on subsistence. We introduce the concept of extractive masculinity as the affective-political engine of the Androcene.
Additive-multiplicative stochastic heat equations, stationary solutions, and Cauchy statistics
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Full article: Mining as environmentalism: green/grey extractivism and the production of extractive subjectivities around the Rio Tinto Kennecott mine in the United States
ABSTRACT Concerted opposition from land defenders alongside climate change mitigation efforts by governments has made environmental and decarbonization efforts an essential element of mining operations. Located on the southwest outskirts of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Rio Tinto’s Kennecott mine not only produces so-called ‘energy transition materials,’ but also emerges as an industry exemplar in advancing environmental mediation, modernization, and decarbonization strategies.
Speaking evidence to power? An interdisciplinary conversation
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Book Review: "We Are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle" (Cambridge:Polity, 2023)
Alexander Dunlap reviews and discusses Jean-Baptiste Vidalou’s We Are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle. by Alexander Dunlap It’s shameful. The original French publication of We are Forests: Inhabiting Territories in Struggle by Jean-Baptiste Vidalou was in my hands since April 2018. Frequently described as “the French Seeing Like a State,” the book explores the art of state making in France.
‘The poisons are already in here with us:’ framing for ecological revolutions from below
Embodiment against the biopolitical, gaze of the blueprint So there are very big questions wrapped up in all of this – obviously. We need to be thinking from a global perspective, obviously. That [thinking] in itself though often leads us towards certain assumptions that sabotage the work that we need to be doing. Let’s take the question of food, right?
Fluctuation exponents of the KPZ equation on a large torus
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Dunlap | Book Review of Isabelle Fremeaux & Jay Jordan. 2022. We are ‘Nature’ defending Itself: Entangling art, activism and Autonomous Zones. Reviewed by Alexander Dunlap | Journal of Political Ecology
Abstract Keywords: Environmental Conflicts, Anarchist Political Ecology, Social Movements, Resistance, Insurrectionary Political Ecology, Political Ontology How to Cite: Dunlap, A., (2023) “Book Review of Isabelle Fremeaux & Jay Jordan. 2022. We are ‘Nature’ defending Itself: Entangling art, activism and Autonomous Zones. Reviewed by Alexander Dunlap”, Journal of Political Ecology 30(1).
Stop Cop City! Revisiting Degrowth & Permanent Ecological Conflict
Armored transport tanks, police vans and Bobcat tractors amass around the Atlanta Forest on December 13th, 2022, in Atlanta Georgia, USA. Riot police and paramilitary Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams raid the Atlanta Forest to attack land defenders, their toilets and kitchen. Shooting tear gas, plastic bullets and armed with assault rifles, they begin tearing down tree houses and other amenities. The police invasion was targeting people inhabiting the forest to prevent its destruction.
The solutions are already here: tactics for ecological revolution from below
It should be apparent by now that governments are not taking ecological and climate crisis seriously. If this statement sounds controversial, then The Solutions are Already Here: Tactics for Ecological Revolution from Below by Peter Gelderloos emerges as a valuable book. Participating in various societies-in-movement for over two decades, Gelderloos remains an influential movement intellectual. This is Gelderloos’ eighth book that, like his others, foregrounds anarchist perspectives.
‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’ Decolonial encounters and the anarchist critique of civilization
Academic decolonization: preserving or smashing the colony? The Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality (MCD) project, or ‘academic decolonial’ thought, has demonstrated great value, shortcomings, and ambiguities. Without question, MCD offers extensive and important historical explorations, epistemological deconstructions, and theoretical devices with great relevance (Mignolo, 2005, 2012; Mignolo & Walsh, 2018; Sousa Santos, 2015). The ‘decolonial turn’, explains Nelson Maldonado-Torres (2018, p.
More wind energy colonialism(s) in Oaxaca? Reasonable findings, unacceptable development
Abstract This Perspective article, offers a commentary intervention to the article, ‘Transactional Colonialism in Wind Energy Investments: Energy Injustices against Vulnerable People in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec’ by Jacobo Ramirez and Steffen Böhm. After the introduction, the first section highlights numerous issue with the term transactional colonialism, which relates to the poor use of ‘internal colonialism’.
Wind, Coal, and Copper: The politics of land grabbing, counterinsurgency, and the social engineering of extraction
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Political Geography
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How extractive industries manage to carry on harming the planet
Around the globe, concern is mounting about the unfolding climate and ecological catastrophe. Yet the extraction of natural resources through mining and energy projects continues on a large scale, with disastrous environmental consequences.
How extractive industries manage to carry on harming the planet
Around the globe, concern is mounting about the unfolding climate and ecological catastrophe. Yet the extraction of natural resources through mining and energy projects continues on a large scale, with disastrous environmental consequences. To understand how this is possible, one place to start is recognising that extraction is not just a physical engineering process. It requires social engineering as well.
Opinion: Michael Moore documentary ‘Planet of the Humans’ unveils flaws with renewable energy
The documentary “Planet of the Humans” has shocked and awed progressive circles, generating an uproar among them. Influential liberal or leftist outlets like The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Jacobin Magazine have published unforgiving critiques of the documentary.
Green Capital and Environmental “Leaders” Won’t Save Us
People are outraged! Jeffery Gibbs’s new documentary, Planet of the Humans – co-produced by Michael Moore and Ozzie Zehner – has shocked and awed “progressive” critics, fuelling a steady stream of outcry. “It is truly demoralizing how much damage this film has done at a moment when many are ready for deep change,” exclaims Naomi Klein on Twitter.
Unraveling the Lies of His-story with James Scott and Peter Gelderloos
The world is burning, confinement practices proliferate and urban centers prioritize commercial flows over people, yet how did we get here? The origin of the state and its technologies of socio-ecological control are the principal preoccupation of Against the Grain and Worshiping Power, both published in 2017. Global acknowledgement of climate and ecological catastrophe spreads as politicians, public relations firms and citizens mobilize for greater state interventions.
Disaster Breeds Disaster in Oaxaca
On September 7, 2017 the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region of Oaxaca shook with an 8.2 magnitude earthquake, the second largest earthquake in Mexico’s history. In Juchitán de Zaragoza, which lies less than 100km from the epicenter, the impact was devastating. The earthquake, and subsequent aftershocks, resulted in 65 deaths, 37 of which occurred in Juchitán. About half of the municipality’s 14,000 buildings suffered severe structural damage.
Wind, coal, and copper: the politics of land grabbing, counterinsurgency, and the social engineering of extraction
ABSTRACT The multiplicity of violent techniques employed to impose land control and extraction remains under acknowledged. This article reviews research conducted between the years 2014 and 2018 and draws on three case studies: wind energy development in Mexico, coal mining in Germany, and copper mining in Peru.
A faultline in neoliberal environmental governance scholarship? Or, why accumulation-by-alienation matters
Adorno, TW, Horkheimer, M (1997 [1944]) Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. by John Cumming, London: Verso. Google Scholar Aguilar-Støen, M (2015) Exploring participation in new forms of environmental governance: A case study of payments for environmental services in Nicaragua. Environment, Development and Sustainability 17(4): 941–958. Google Scholar | Crossref Aguilar-Støen, M (2017) Better safe than sorry? Indigenous peoples, carbon cowboys and the governance of REDD in the Amazon.
Triangular vs Normal distribution
It depends in what sense you want your triangular distribution to "approximate" the normal distribution. The normal distribution is symmetric about $0$ and unimodal, so you probably want your triangular distribution to be symmetric about $0$ and unimodal as well. In order for your triangular distribution to be a probability distribution, the area under the triangle should be $1$. If your triangle has height $h$ and base $b$, this means that $bh/2=1$, so $b=2/h$.
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