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(Un)Learning Series

The voices of those most affected by the climate crisis are often not heard in traditional discourse.

The (Un)Learning Series creates space for youth researchers - often from the MAPA regions - to share critical perspectives that help reshape our understanding of climate justice.

A Journey Towards Emplacement: Our Recipe of Collaboration for Ecological Wellbeing
(English)
Author:
Ethel Pang
2022
Finanzas, justicia y activismo climático: La nueva frontera
Finance, justice, and climate activism: the New Frontier
Spanish
Author:
Juan José Guzmán Ayala
Sept 2022
Getting to Net Negative: Best practices for city-led carbon removal?
(English)
Author:
Re-earth Initiative & Walk It Back Initiative
Nov 2022
India can’t tackle climate change without addressing social injustice
(English)
Author:
Pooja Kishinani
March 2022
Oceans Felt and Known: How Māori Stories help us better Understand the Ecological Sciences
(English)
Author:
Yeo Jing Ying
2022
Redefining Wilderness: An autoethnography analyzing more-than-human relationships between foresters of an intentional community and an ecologically restored village
(English)
Author:
Malia Elder
May 2024
Water’s Child: Queer visions and the Reflection of the Ocean
(English)
Author:
Ivan Lin
June 2023
Within 7 Degrees: Case Studies of Coral Reef Management in Singapore and Zanzibar
(English)
Author:
Hannah NG Shueh Yi
May 2022
Yuhaaviatam clan of Maara’yam Soveriegnty & Cultural Preservation
(English)
Author:
Ben Bartlett
Mar - May 2023

Articles

TITLE
AUTHOR(S)
KEY THEMES
Climate Emergency Politics Is Dangerous
Mike Hulme
Wealth inequality, climate policy
Decarcerating Disability - Deinstitutionalisation and Prison Abolition
Liat Ben-Moshe
Abolitionist Studies, Decolonisation, Prison abolition, Transformative Justice
Abolition as Project of Personal Transformation
Marina Bell
Abolitionist Studies, Decolonisation, Transformative Justice, Spirituality
Decolonization is Not a Metaphor
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Decolonization, land returns, reparations, settler colonialism

Books

TITLE
AUTHOR(S)
KEY THEMES
The Nutmeg’s Curse
Amitav Ghosh
Colonialism, botany, resource extraction, environmental justice
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
Thom van Dooren
Natural science, biodiversity, extinction studies
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Rob Nixon
Climate Justice, Postcolonial Studies, Violence
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka Purnell
Abolitionist studies, intersectional environmentalism, environmental justice
Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
Nicole Seymour
Queer ecology, environmental ethics
Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel
Irus Braverman
Palestine, ecological management, dispossession, nature parks, settler colonialism
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
Colonialism, development studies, industry, Africa
Exterminate All the Brutes
Sven Lindqvist
Colonialism, brutality, mythmaking, Africa
Pollution Is Colonialism
Max Liboiron
Science, pollution, colonialism, conservation, discard studies, Australia
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigeneity, US, botany, science, land

Documentaries/Films

TITLE
SUMMARY
KEY THEMES
by Micha Peled
Bitter Seeds raises questions about the human cost of genetically-modified agriculture and the future of how we grow things. This is the third film in Micha Peled's globalization trilogy, following the award-winning Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town and China Blue.
Agriculture, Monsanto, environmental injustice, India
by Jumana Manna
Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace.
Colonialism, brutality, mythmaking, Africa
A very short 15-minute film about Singapore sand dredging in Cambodia and the impact it has on indigenous communities.
Capitalism and environmental destruction, developed-developing country exploitation
by Jumana Manna
Filmmaker Jumana Manna investigates the complex pathway of seed distribution between Lebanon's Beqaa Valley and the Global Seed Vault deep inside Norway's Svalbard archipelago.
Agriculture, seed bank, science, Syria, Lebanon, Norway

Other Resources

NAME
SUMMARY
KEY LINKS
Seeding Sovereignity
A collective working on land, body, and food sovereignity work, community building, and cultural preservation.
Loudreaders
LOUDREADERS becomes a planetary laboratory for emancipatory imaginaries forged in the Caribbean, as the brutality of extraction and exploitation that was the blueprint of the plantation (and its economies) has spilled on the rest of the world like organic matter.
Citing Bar
Feminist Environmental Humanities
Not An Atlas
Geographical Activism and Counter-Mapping
Slow Journal, Slow Factory
Slow Journal is an independent editorial platform where we’ll publish existing, commissioned, and independent research, essays, interviews, and other creative and/or critical content that continues to shift the narrative and explore the intersections of climate, culture, design, and art.