We examine the role of emotions in environmental conflicts and propose an expanded approach to emotional political ecology. Drawing on feminist studies, human geography, social psychology, social movement theory, and anthropology, we develop a conceptual framework...
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How sovereignty claims and “negative” emotions influence the process of subject-making: Evidence from a case of conflict over tree plantations from Southern Chile
We examine the conflict generated by industrial tree plantations in Mapuche territories in southern Chile to understand how emotions, power, and claims to sovereignty shape socio-environmental conflicts. We show how the state and private companies seek to consolidate...
The ambivalent political work of emotions in the defence of territory, life and the commons
We explore the role of emotions in the defence of the commons and in mobilization against socio-environmental conflicts through experiences of grassroots movements and communities in Chile and Mexico. We show how emotional expression can strengthen resistance and...
Emotional healing as part of environmental and climate justice processes: Frameworks and community-based experiences in times of environmental suffering
We explore the role of emotional healing in struggles for environmental and climate justice. Drawing on emotional political ecology, transformative justice, and communitarian feminism, together with experiences developed by grassroots collectives in Mexico, Colombia,...
Affected by and affecting forest fires in Sweden and Spain: A critical feminist analysis of vulnerability to fire
We examine how rural communities affected by large forest fires in Sweden and Spain experience, feel, and respond to vulnerability. From a feminist perspective, we show that emotions and practices of care are central to understanding the impacts of wildfires,...
El sentipensar extractivo colonial: Geografías emocionales de la extracción en Gülumapu, el territorio mapuche en el sur de Chile
We analyse forestry extractivism in southern Chile through the lens of emotional political ecology to show how emotions are embedded in strategies of capital accumulation. We argue that the state and private companies produce and manage the suffering experienced by...
The politics of reflexivity: Subjectivities, activism, environmental conflict and Gestalt Therapy in southern Chiapas
We explore the role of Gestalt therapy in community organizing and environmental conflict in southern Chiapas, Mexico. Drawing on workshops with Indigenous and peasant communities, we examine how therapeutic practices can foster individual and collective reflexivity,...
Emotions, power, and environmental conflict: Expanding the ‘emotional turn’ in political ecology
We examine the role of emotions in environmental conflicts and propose an expanded approach to emotional political ecology. Drawing on feminist studies, human geography, social psychology, social movement theory, and anthropology, we develop a conceptual framework...