Journal of Political Ecology
The Journal of Political Ecology (JPE) is a peer reviewed, 'gold' Open Access journal in the social sciences. It began in 1994 and welcomes submissions in English, French and Spanish. JPE publishes political ecology studies - research into the linkages between political economy and human environmental impacts, across different locations and academic disciplines. Articles must be situated in, or contribute to, political ecology, which is a very specific, critical academic approach. We do not publish general environmental studies, political science/international relations/sociology/economics etc., or general social science & political economy research. Only political ecology. We prefer studies with empirical fieldwork, not reviews and textual analysis based on secondary materials. AI writing is not allowed.
JPE was established at the University of Arizona, hosted by the UA Libraries. It is an academic-led journal, with the work done by volunteer editors and referees from universities. Over the years, the JPE has published several important contributions to the field of political ecology, and spanned several disciplines, while remaining free of charge. It is cited more often per article than many commercial journals charging libraries or authors. Articles are archived by Portico.
A description of the journal can be found in Spanish and in English (at the end of an argument for academic-controlled OA journals).
In 2022, we began publishing a new section, Grassroots, publishing shorter articles with authors drawn from activists and scholars from the Global South. The Grassroots team publish critical reflections on political ecology and sustainability. The environmental effects of globalisation for local communities is a focus. Questions may be directed to grassrootsjpe@gmail.com, https://www.grassrootsjpe.org/
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Articles
Experiencing the double blow of climate change and its mitigation: Perspectives from Sámi reindeer herders in Swedish Sápmi
- Ilse Maria Renkens
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Reindeer herders in the green sacrifice zone: The cumulative impacts of past extractivist dispossessions and recent mining expansion in Sodankylä, Finland
- Maija Matilda Lassila
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Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics
- Haripriya Rangan
- Judith Carney
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Just conservation? Knowing Mapuche perspectives on environmental justice at Villarrica National Park, Chile
- Maria Daniela Torres-Alruiz
- Marx José Gómez-Liendo
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Current socio-environmental transitions and disadvantaged consumers
- Josiah M Heyman
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"It's kind of just another factory:" A political ecology of solar panel manufacturing in Perrysburg, Ohio
- Alexander Dunlap
- Benjamin K Sovacool
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Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing
- Angus Lyall
- Mark Ortiz
- Emily Billo
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Scales of dispossession: Institutionalizing resource access at the frontier
- Mattias Borg Rasmussen
- Christian Lund
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The narrative predictability of political ecology: Ethnographic refusals from the Ecuadorian Amazon
- Gard Frækaland Vangsnes
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Spatializing zoonotic disease dynamics from a political ecology perspective: Reconceptualizing spillover as structure
- Francis Massé
- Ekaterina Gladkova
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"How can we refuse the gift of spirits?" Ontological conflicts between indigenous hunting practices and conservation projects in northern Mongolia
- Selcen Küçüküstel
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On the practices of autonomous more-than-human political communities
- Jacob Smessaert
- Giuseppe Feola
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"It's about getting the right people back on the right country!": Cultural difference and structural inequality in a northern Australian joint managed National Park
- Mardi Reardon-Smith
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Rendering homogenous and incompatible: Pastoral grazing in Tanzania's village land forest reserves
- Benezet Mugisha Rwelengera
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The non-economy of anticipation in the construction phase of large dams
- Arne Rieber
- Eric M. Kioko
- Theo Aalders
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Resistance and conservation in the Maestrazgo-Els Ports initiative: The complexities behind failed conservation
- Brenda Ponzi
- Oriol Beltran
- Ismael Vaccaro
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Land access, land use, and agricultural practice: Political ecologies of servitude at colonial Ollantaytambo (1550–1770)
- Raymond Alexander Hunter
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Invisible tenants in urban village redevelopment: Case studies from Shenzhen Megacity, China
- Chunhong Sheng
- Ke Song
- Jinlong Liu
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Harnessing social media analytics for political ecology: Polish digital discourse on waste incinerators
- Maciej Kalaska
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"It's all about sharing": Can circular initiatives be autonomous food spaces?
- Deborah Lambert
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"That's how we live sustainably"! Conflicting environmentalisms in Franconian Switzerland
- Ylvali Ealla Koch
- Mary Lawhon
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Ecología política e investigación-acción participativa para la transformación de sistemas socioecológicos: Reflexiones desde el trabajo transdisciplinar con organizaciones campesinas en Colombia
- Juan Sebastian Vélez Triana
- Daniel Ortiz Gallego
- Carlos Luis Del Cairo Silva
- Angie Carolina Rodríguez
- Juan Eduardo Ortega
- Tomás Vergara Gutiérrez
- Sebastián Gómez
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Whose habitat? Exploring human-tiger conflict in the riskscapes of the Indian Sundarbans
- Souradip Pathak
- Jenia Mukherjee
- Amrita Sen
- Anuradha Choudry
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From rebel governance to energy and environmental policies in a post-war setting: The case of the Taliban in Afghanistan
- Laurent A. Lambert
- Jad Tayah
- Hamed A. Adam
- Suhail Esmail
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A harms-based political ecology: Understanding harms through the wildlife trade
- Rosaleen Duffy
- Alison Hutchinson
- George Iordachescu
- Teresa Lappe-Osthege
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Commodification, labor, abstraction: Three key concepts to understand the many-headed hydra of biodiversity offsetting
- Kiera Chapman
- Malcolm Tait
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Connecting urban green infrastructure and environmental justice in South Africa: Integrating social access, ecology, and design
- Maya Pasgaard
- Christina Breed
- Kristine Engemann Jensen
- Peta Brom
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Sensibilisation: The role of awareness raising in biodiversity conservation in Kanaky/New Caledonia
- Chelsea E. Hunter
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"We have that vision of the future": Indigenous womxn's resistance as environmental protection in the U.S. Southwest
- Margot R. Lurie
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What brought us forward: Ciulaku women and their fight for land rights in Taiwan
- Wan Jou Lin
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Maquiagem: Concealing the politicized nature of urban disaster and housing policy in Petrópolis, Brazil
- Tjalf Nathan van Minnen
- Robert Coates
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Racialized land tenure and the colonial present: Political ecologies of dispossession in Northeast Brazil
- Shelly Annette Biesel
- Elaine Cristina Mendonça
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Indigenous territorial rights in the Global Biodiversity Framework: Creating a third pathway to 30x30
- Catherine Corson
- Victoria Hodson
- Noella Gray
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Shifting waters: The dynamics of water grabbing in Lake Toba through aquaculture and tourism development
- Betty Betharia Sonata Naibaho
- Shew Jiuan Su
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Participation and contextual equity in REDD implementation: A qualitative case-study from Gola, Sierra Leone
- Sorrel C. Z. Jones
- Fomba A. Kamara
- Fomba Kamara
- Natasha Constant
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Narratives of invasion and intimacy: Transborder relations with tamarisk in the Chihuahuan Desert
- Shannon Sloane Pepper
- Marygold Walsh-Dilley
- K. Maria D. Lane
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Social history of industry, between environmental violence and working-class ecology. A case study on the chemical plant in Spinetta Marengo, Italy
- Vittorio Martone
- Angelo Castellani
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Special Section: Political ecology of professional practice: plurality and possibilities in environmental governance (Part 2), ed. by Sam Staddon, Floriane Clement and Bimbika Sijapati Basnett
Political ecologies of professional practice: Plurality and possibilities in environmental governance, Introduction to the Special Section
- Sam Staddon
- Floriane Clement
- Bimbika Sijapati Basnett
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The coloniality of gender expertise in professional environment and development contexts
- Rebecca Elmhirst
- Bernadette P. Resurrección
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Special Section: Indigenous Voices: Self-determination in mine site transitions and mine closure governance across nations, edited by Sarah Holcombe, Rebecca Hall and Arn Keeling
Self-Determination in mine site transitions and mine closure governance across Indigenous nations
- Sarah Elizabeth Holcombe
- Rebecca Jane Hall
- Arn Keeling
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"What does Closure even mean?" at Century Mine: Multiple companies, mine closure trajectories and disputation
- Alec Doomadgee
- Sarah Elizabeth Holcombe
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Reasserting Gija women's role in mine site reclamation: A perspective from the Argyle Diamond Mine
- Kia Dowell
- Sarah Elizabeth Holcombe
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Nunavik Inuit and Raglan Mine: New approaches to closure planning (isulinnisanganut parnasimautiit)
- Arn Keeling
- Vanessa Potvin
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Reading mine closure through Tłı̨chǫ self-determination
- John B. Zoe
- Rebecca Jane Hall
- Tee Wern Lim
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The reclamation and rematriation of Tsē Zūl: The Tū Łídlīni Dena's story of the Faro Mine
- Tū Łídlīni Dena Elders
- Brittany Tuffs
- Caitlynn Beckett
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Grassroots
Green gold for the "future": Fermented foodways, possibilities and doubts
- Ankita Dutta
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Grassroots Special Section: 'Post-growth food systems for a just social-ecological transition within planetary boundaries'. Edited by CE Nedelciu, JB Hinton, M Oostdijk, K Benabderrazik, LG Elsler
Beyond growth in food systems: Cultivating seeds of change
- Claudiu Eduard Nedelciu
- Jennifer Hinton
- Maartje Oostdijk
- Kenza Benabderrazik
- Laura G. Elsler
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Building solidarities and alliances between degrowth and food sovereignty movements
- Michaela Pixová
- Julia Spanier
- Leonie Guerrero Lara
- Jacob Smessaert
- Katie Sandwell
- Logan Strenchock
- Inea Lehner
- Jan Feist
- Lisa Reichelt
- Christina Plank
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¿Cómo concientizar a lxs jóvenes sobre sus prácticas alimentarias? Una mirada crítica desde metodologías de pedagogía transformadora en Andalucía, España.
- Léa Lamotte
- Paulino Ramos-Ballesteros
- Rodrigo Peña-Cabra
- Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel
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Knowing soils – Perspectives beyond growth in carbon farming
- Susanna Barrineau
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Traditional foodways of the Amadiba: A struggle for indigenous food sovereignty in Mpondoland, South Africa
- Brittany Kesselman
- Sinegugu Zukulu
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Movement without a movement: Food self-provisioning in Eastern Europe and the Balkans as emergent transformation towards a degrowth mode of living
- Mladen Domazet
- Rowan Lubbock
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Domesticating neoliberal foodscapes: An everyday approach to understanding food system transitions in Oaxaca, Mexico
- Aisha Ismail
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From the ground up: Exploring the potential contribution of citizens' assemblies in radical food-system transformation
- Inea Lehner
- Samira Amos
- Philippe Mathys
- Johanna Jacobi
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Proximity despite distance? A community-supported agriculture initiative across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland
- Sarah Steinegger
- Nora Katharina Faltmann
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“Meat-me”: From flesh machines to individualities. A case for an anti-speciesist degrowth
- Eva Navarro
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City of sanctuary: Exploring multispecies democracy in a post-growth food future
- Taylor Steelman
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From peasant women to social change: The politicization of identities and materialities toward socio-ecological transformations
- Mariana Calcagni
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The milpa's Maya Ixil caretakers, multispecies biocultural diversity conservation, and designs for more-than-human abundance
- Gina D'Alesandro
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Book Reviews
Review of Ellingson, Stephen. 2024. Planting with purpose: How farmers create a resilient food landscape
- Michael Classens
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Review of Helmcke, Cornelia. 2023. Engineering reality: The politics of environmental impact assessments and the just energy transition in Colombia
- Gustav Cederlöf
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Reseña del libro de Castillo Oropeza and D. Roca-Servat (Coords.). 2024. Ecología política, sufrimiento socioambiental y acción política
- Edgar Delgado Hernández
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Review of Lang et al. (Eds.). 2024. The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions
- Carlos Tornel
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Review of John Duerk (Ed). 2021. Environmental philosophy, politics, and policy
- Navam Niles
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Book review of Van Beemen, O. 2024. Ondernemers in het wild: Het ontluisterende verhaal van een club witte weldoeners in Afrika
- Stasja Koot
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Review of Armstrong, Chris. 2024. Global justice and the biodiversity crisis: Conservation in a world of inequality
- Elliott Woodhouse
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Reviews of Enns and Bersaglio. 2024. Settler ecologies: The enduring nature of settler colonialism in Kenya and Matziaraki and Murimi (dirs.). 2024. The Battle for Laikipia
- Joe Rigby
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Review of Gustav Cederlöf. 2023. The low-carbon contradiction: Energy transition, geopolitics, and the infrastructural state in Cuba
- Cornelia Helmcke
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Book Review of Benjamin Neimark. 2023. Hottest of the Hotspots: The rise of eco-precarious conservation labor in Madagascar
- Sheila Chebet Ronoh
- Andry Randriamanantena
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Review of Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste. 2024. More and more and more: An all-consuming history of energy
- Alexander Dunlap
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Review of Cruz-Torres, María L. 2023. Pink gold: Women, shrimp, and work in Mexico.
- James B. Greenberg
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Review of Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G. 2025. The rise of necro/narco citizenship: Belonging and dying in the Southwest North American Region
- James B. Greenberg
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Review of Kallis G., Paulson, S., D'Alisa, G. & Demaria, F. 2020. The case for degrowth.
- Grace Wright-Arora
- Wallerand Bazin
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Review of Esther Sánchez-Pardo & María Porras Sánchez (eds.). 2024. Myth and environmentalism: Arts of resilience for a damaged planet
- Noah R. Dennison
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