Category: climate & ecology

Earthcare Fieldcast: Episode 4

Published date January 8, 2022 Categories climate & ecology / food justice / organizing

In this episode we hear about the antiracist and feminist self-organization and grassroots-union-building of the Jornaleras de Huelva en Lucha (“Huelva women day labourers in struggle”). They are women working in industrial berry production in southern Spain who push for better conditions, social rights and ecological transition. They build vital mutual aid, solidarity and alliances with other struggles, in the face of unions who don’t recognize them, and bosses who exploit them as workers, women and migrants.

Earthcare Fieldcast: Episode 3

Published date December 6, 2021 Categories care / climate & ecology / food justice

This episode features conversations with the Austrian Sezonieri and Swiss Widerstand am Tellerrand campaigns for the rights of seasonal agricultural workers. How to organize with the migrant workers who do life-sustaining labors on temporary regimes? How can unions be pushed to take this seriously?

Tage der Wiedereröffnung: Weimar und die Normalität

Published date October 5, 2021 Categories city / climate & ecology / movement / organizing / protest / public space

Zum 3. Oktober 2021 unternimmt das Weimarer Bürgerradio “Radio Lotte” einen Streifzug durch Weimar und erkundet die Veränderungen in der Stadt nach der Pandemie. Georg Gräser besucht in seinem Magazin Sozialarbeiter*innen, Goldschmied*innen, Kleingärtner*innen, die Weimarer Fridays for Future und viele weitere Menschen und Initiativen, die ein aktives Leben in der Stadt auszeichnen. Die gegenwärtige Stimmung in der Stadt wird mit Stimmen unmittelbar nach der Wiedervereinigung collagiert. Für das Magazin wurde auch das Forschungsprojekt MovE gefragt, wie soziale Bewegungen die Pandemie erlebt haben.

Gleanings: Wie Stadt-Land-Disparitäten zu politischen Spaltungen gewendet werden

Published date October 5, 2021 Categories climate & ecology / infrastructure / urban - rural

Die Entscheidung für die Einführung von Dieselfahrverboten wurde 2019 in Stuttgart durch Demonstrationen beantwortet. Die Proteste betonten u.a. mit symbolischem Bezug auf die französischen Gilets Jaunes Stadt und Land bzw. Zentrum und Peripherie als Pole unterschiedlicher Interessen. Bei den in ihrer Selbstbeschreibung “unpolitischen” Protesten von “Bürgern” und “Dieselfahrern” lassen sich Vereinnahmungen durch rechtspopulistische Strategien beobachten. Zugleich haben sich die Organisator*innen allerdings in öffentlichen Aussagen von rechten Gruppierungen abgegrenzt. Der Artikel möchte diese widersprüchliche Beziehung zu rechtspopulistischen Haltungen durch eine Analyse raumbezogener Praktiken und Argumentationen während der Proteste untersuchen.

Earthcare Fieldcast: Episode 2

Published date October 5, 2021 Categories care / climate & ecology / feminism / food justice

In this episode we speak to Attila Szocs of Ecoruralis, a 14,000 member-strong peasant farmer organization in Romania that is part of La Via Campesina Europe. The first part of this episode explores the work of Ecoruralis at the community level: their seed house, peasant-to-peasant knowledge exchanges, local production and distribution networks, Ecoruralis’ approach to agroecology and organization, and the horizon for strengthening rural feminism.

Earthcare Fieldcast: Episode 1

Published date September 20, 2021 Categories climate & ecology / food justice

In this first episode, we present the twin concepts of earthcare and fieldcasting in two short conversations with environmental justice scholar Stefania Barca and cooperative farmworker Tobias at Ochsenherz, Austria. We speak with Stefania Barca about the concept of “earthcare labour” which she explores in her recent book and we discuss definitions and avenues for thinking about social reproduction and environmental struggles. What is earthcare labour? Who are its subjects and workers? And what perspectives for organizing and alliances does it open — both transversally and translocally?

Documentation: Imaginaries of Transformation

Published date August 30, 2021 Categories care / climate & ecology / feminism / food justice

This time-travel session takes us from desirable futures back to our complicated past, asking: How do we imagine transformation? Centering on a performative interview with Amaranta Herrero and Dimitris Papadopoulos, set in 2050, this session engages the playful and transdisciplinary method of the Future Archive project. Animating and complicating questions of what is desirable, this session encourages to go beyond strictly utopian and dystopian visions of the future, based on their own implicatedness in worlds and struggles.

Documentation: Learning and Struggling in Pandemic times

Published date August 26, 2021 Categories care / city / climate & ecology / feminism / movement / organizing / protest

The pandemic, like other unfolding and coming ecological crises, profoundly reshapes the terrain upon which social movements operate and emerge. We held a workshop in order to discuss different terrains of struggle over housing, reproductive rights, and ecology. Here we are allocating recordings of the talks and of the discussion on May 21st as well as further reflections on the workshop on May 22nd.

Gleanings: The Kaleidoscope of Catastrophe

Published date May 4, 2021 Categories care / climate & ecology / food justice / infrastructure

Recently, I announced my intention to write a long essay about Malm to a circle of degrowth communists. One, a researcher and activist of US pipeline struggles, was exasperated at Malm’s apparently contradictory embrace of a strategy of pushing the capitalist state to do the right thing in Corona, Climate and Chronic Emergency (2020) and his stringent support of sabotage in How to Blow up a Pipeline (2021).

Gleanings: Building Power

Published date March 10, 2021 Categories care / climate & ecology / movement

Syriza took power through elections—not so much on the basis of a movement that could embolden or depose it. Now it is back to fighting power for many Greeks. But beyond the taking and fighting of power, there is the question of building power.