ABSTRACT
Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world. In response, various environmental movements have emerged opposing the neoliberal restructuring of environmental policies using arguments that often bridge traditional divisions between the environmental and labour agendas.
The Right to Nature explores the differing experiences of a number of environmental-social movements and struggles from the point of view of both activists and academics. This collection attempts to both document the social-ecological impacts of neoliberal attempts to exploit non-human nature in the post-crisis context and to analyse the opposition of emerging environmental movements and their demands for a radically different production of nature based on social needs and environmental justice. It also provides a necessary space for the exchange of ideas and experiences between academics and activists and aims to motivate further academic-activist collaborations around alternative and counter-hegemonic re-thinking of environmental politics.
This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and activists interested in environmental policy, environmental justice, social and environmental movements.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
part I|83 pages
Extractivism and environmental justice movements
chapter 1|12 pages
Self-determination as resistance
chapter 2|14 pages
Petro-politics and local natural resource protection
chapter 3|13 pages
Navigating state-led extractivism in Ecuador and Russia
chapter 4|14 pages
Beyond winning and losing
chapter 5|14 pages
Land rights and justice in neoliberal Mozambique
chapter 6|14 pages
Possibilities and pitfalls of environmental justice action
part II|69 pages
Green struggles against capitalist urbanization and infrastructure construction
chapter 8|10 pages
Landscape and outdoor domestic space towards food sovereignty and environmental regeneration
chapter 9|10 pages
Access to information and the construction of sustainability discourse
chapter 11|13 pages
Environmental justice claims and dimensions in anti-megaproject campaigns in Europe
part III|79 pages
The economic valuation of nature
chapter 12|14 pages
Isolation and abstraction to tackle deforestation
part IV|65 pages
Tracking alternatives to the neoliberal agenda