Elba Mercedes Palacios Córdoba
This article was written in Spanish. Read the original article here.
In an attempt to understand what is happening to us—amidst the fiction that “anything goes” and the “every …
Elba Mercedes Palacios Córdoba
An English translation of this article is available here. // Una traducción al inglés de este artículo está disponible aquí.
En un intento por comprender lo que nos …
Pooja Kishinani and Satakshi Gupta
An interview with Yuri Tuma, a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist, researcher, and co-founder of the Institute for Postnatural Studies (IPS) a Madrid-based institute working at the intersection of art, culture, and ecology. The IPS uses artistic …
Eirini-Erifyli Tzekou
What if food systems were designed not to maximize sales and accumulation, but to meet needs fairly within ecological limits? In Thessaloniki, Greece, a range of grassroots food initiatives have emerged over the last fifteen years, shaped by …
Di Maxwell
What happens when communities lose too much local capability? Di Maxwell shares the story of The Old Packhouse Market Project in the far north of Aotearoa (New Zealand), which began as an effort to secure and protect a …
Priscilla Claeys and Jasber Singh
To what extent do spirituality and religion support or impede movement building? How do food sovereignty activists navigate their own spiritual and religious lives and place-based practices in the transnational movement? Agroecology Now!‘s Priscilla …
Aseem Shrivastava
Building on the critique of the rights of nature discourse in part I of this essay, Aseem Shrivastava shows how the rights discourse collapses under scrutiny, (re)producing anthropocentrism ironically at odds with its own goals. He traces …
Aseem Shrivastava
This essay interrogates the “rights of nature” discourse, arguing that it extends one of modernity’s most anthropocentric concepts—individual rights—onto nature rather than questioning the framework of rights itself. Drawing on Raimon Panikkar’s cosmotheandric vision, Martin Buber’s …
Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari
In light of the planetary polycrisis, it is time to challenge the dominant strand of Western thought that asserts only humans possess rights and that other species exist solely for human benefit. In their contribution …
Riza Annisa Anggraeni
This article was originally published by Icarus Complex on June 16, 2026.
Kasepuhan Gelar Alam, a centuries-old indigenous community in West Java, practices food and energy sovereignty through micro-hydro power, biodiversity-rich rice farming, and traditional granaries. The …
Madhulika Banerjee, Sonali Sathaye and Vandana Singh
What is the role of education in responding to the climate crisis? Three members of Teachers Against the Climate Crisis (TACC) in India reflect on the four broad pillars of a …
Arif Yusop
As (inter)beings immersed in colonial modernity, we tend to forget who we truly are as a collective ‘we’. Exploring design vis-à-vis sustainability transition, Arif Yusop reflects on the manufactured global ‘we’ that has captured sustainability discourse and unearths …