About this line of research
Emotional political ecologies · MARIÉN GONZÁLEZ-HIDALGO
Emotional political ecologies explore how affective dimensions shape our relationship with the environment in contexts of environmental change, disasters, and socio-ecological conflicts. From a critical perspective, this approach seeks to understand how power relations, inequalities, and environmental policies are intertwined with the lived experience of ecological transformations, opening up new ways of thinking about the political through the sensory and the everyday.
Rather than a closed field, this is an emerging line of research that engages with multiple material contexts and scales. In these settings, emotions do not merely accompany processes of change; they actively shape them by influencing how transformations are perceived, how territories are inhabited, and how possibilities are imagined.
Environmental Disasters and Crises
Environmental disasters, particularly wildfires, and their capacity to transform territories, communities, and everyday life. Their social, political, and emotional impacts, as well as the collective responses that emerge to face these crises.
Extractivism and Environmental Justice
Socio-environmental conflicts associated with the extraction of natural resources and the inequalities they produce. Struggles for territorial defense and alternative approaches aimed at advancing environmental justice.
Collective Action and Resistance
Forms of organization, resistance, and social mobilization in response to socio-environmental crises. Collective processes that foster social transformation and new ways of relating to territories.
Intersectionality and Socio-environmental Justice
The inequalities of gender, class, ethnicity, age, and place that shape experiences of environmental impacts, participation in decision-making processes, and access to resources and opportunities.
Ecologies of Care
Emotions, care practices, well-being, and collective healing as fundamental dimensions for facing ecological crises. Care as a political practice capable of strengthening collective action.
Emotions, Power, and Green Capitalism
The role of emotions in climate policies, sustainability discourses, and green capitalism strategies. The ways in which emotions such as hope, fear, or guilt can shape environmental practices, decisions, and narratives.