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...Sinan Erensü; Barış İne; Yaşar Adnan Adanalı Abstract Ever since the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in the summer 2013, defending and reclaiming the city parks, market gardens, public squares, and urban forests has become a mainstream act of defiance and a symbolic rejection of an intensifying...

... urban forest Morro da Babilônia (Babilonia Hill), a favela near the famous Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is the site of a successful decade-long project of urban reforestation. The project results from an alliance between community, local government, and a large retail center...

... on the epic as a metalanguage for political commentary, critique, and reenvi- sioning of the imagined nation. In nationalist rhetoric, the central theme of four sections of the twenty-five hundred-year-old epic—the forest exile of Rama and Sita...

... entry into Marxism? The image I have is of a fresh Ph.D. in philosophy embarking on three generations of activism and struggle, but that is an image taken from the present to the past. Specifically, how was the Johnson-Forest Tendency a catalyst to your intellectual...

... is shot in and around their house, which is actually Reygadas’s house, as are the two children that appear in the film. Juan and Natalia’s estate (that is, Reygadas’s) is a vision of rural life articulated from an affluent, urban perspective: it’s modern, bright, and open to edenic surroundings...

... the center of the court- yard must be equally audible in all surrounding dwellings.2 No walls surrounded Boven Digoel — no bastions, and not even a wire. There was a forest instead, huge with no roads. There was perma- nent twilight...

... of Albany, New York, currently offer training courses in radical urban sustainability designed to build 72 Dawson ∙ The Catastrophic Temporality of Green Capitalism autonomous energy infrastructures grounded in decentralized, egalitarian community mobilization...

... with the search for the last oil, the last forests, and the last water. Figure 1. Still from Kowkülen ( Liquid Being , 2020). Figure 1. Still from Kowkülen (Liquid Being, 2020). Calfuqueo's body is not a metaphor, or a flattened aestheticization, but the literal materiality of this settler...

..., their movements resemble the wind blowing through the thick canopy of a forest. Extolled by Padre Marcelo as the biggest pneumatic cathedral on earth, the Amazon rainforest is the mag- nified expression of pneuma, one that has an ecological role in producing...

... on the state, whether on an urban, state, or federal scale. But it also requires figuring out how to construct energy infrastructures that can exist autonomously from the grid, while also at times pumping power back into that grid in order to access the resulting credits. In sum, community solar power must...

...Ashley Dawson; Marco Armiero; Ethemcan Turhan; Roberta Biasillo Abstract Urban climate insurgency refers to the ensemble of grassroots initiatives aiming to tackle climate change from a radical point of view. Insurgency in this case does not imply violence but rather refers to the radical rejection...

... forest, the oceans, the rare earth metals mine Technological resources: the data center as mine Human resources: migrant labor, the prison system, displaced agricultural workers, the “absolutely expendable” Financial resources: loans, mortgages, credit (predatory lending as debt harvesting...

...Nicholas Gamso This article addresses a crucial dimension of urban development: the recruitment of minority artists in the gentrification of space. The argument is that the production and exploitation of racial difference have underwritten the creative economy’s spurious claims to inclusion...

... but through their capacity to make families. Such neoliberal humanism “naturalizes” urban survival against both the abstract forces of the state and capital and the residual forces of the organic world (the green forests of the park where Dave and Katie suf...

... and Kash- mir. The agitators were protesting against the Indian government’s retrac- tion of a grant of a hundred acres of forested land to the trustees of the Amarnath Shrine, an important Hindu pilgrimage center in Jammu and Kashmir — a retraction that was itself triggered by earlier protests...

...., Allison, Precarious Japan . 45 See, e.g., Biehl, Vita ; and Chua, In Pursuit of the Good Life . 46 See, e.g., Garcia, Pastoral Clinic . 47 Coleman, “Being Alone Together.” 48 See, e.g., Bennett, Vibrant Matter ; Kohn, How Forests Think . 49 See, e.g...

... y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag/Intag Defense and Ecological Conservation group) to develop a written guide to support activists seeking to defend their communities against “extractivist” practices. DECOIN is based in the Intag cloud forest region of northwestern Ecuador, which is home to numerous...

... their attentions to communities of color — reservations, urban ghettos — at the psychological, economic, political, and cultural margins of mainstream US society. This essay engages an effort to completely reorient the concep- tualization and practice of field...

... Workers Party convention in New York that may be the most forceful crystallization of this perspective. Distinguishing the work of his small pressure group, the “Johnson-Forest Tendency,” from previous positions on the “Negro...

... the production of a linear past-present-future relation (linear even as it curves back through the past) requires certain forms of subjectivity: a farmer who establishes a rural-urban progress narrative; a domesticated insinuation into gender in which a woman...