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Peer-reviewed, volunteer-run OA journal in the field of political ecology published since 1994 No charges, zero corporate profit. Accepts genuine [no AI] contributions in 3 languages. Linked to Grassroots: https://grassrootsjpe.org
D'Alesandro, G., (2025) “The milpa's Maya Ixil caretakers, multispecies biocultural diversity conservation, and designs for more-than-human abundance”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5836. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
The milpa's Maya Ixil caretakers, multispecies biocultural diversity conservation, and designs for more-than-human abundance
This article draws upon multispecies ethnographic fieldwork with the Maya Ixil in Iximulew (Guatemala) to identify a model of biodiversity conservation that decolonizes food systems in situ through bi...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Calcagni, M., (2025) “From peasant women to social change: The politicization of identities and materialities toward socio-ecological transformations”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5930. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
From peasant women to social change: The politicization of identities and materialities toward socio-ecological transformations
Peasant movements are key to thinking and acting creatively in food and socio-ecological transformation processes. Drawing bridges between feminist political ecology and critical ecofeminisms, this ar...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
teelman, T., (2025) “City of sanctuary: Exploring multispecies democracy in a post-growth food future”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5850. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
City of sanctuary: Exploring multispecies democracy in a post-growth food future
This article grapples with two pressing problems endemic to capitalist agriculture: the exploitation of nonhuman animals and the enclosure of the agricultural commons. How might a post-growth food tra...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Navarro, E., (2025) ““Meat-me”: From flesh machines to individualities. A case for an anti-speciesist degrowth”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5834. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
“Meat-me”: From flesh machines to individualities. A case for an anti-speciesist degrowth
Degrowth, a leading paradigm addressing our socio-ecological crisis, criticizes the highly destructive animal factory-farming industry. However, it does not challenge the commodification of sentient b...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Steinegger, S. & Faltmann, N. K., (2025) “Proximity despite distance? A community-supported agriculture initiative across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5944. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Proximity despite distance? A community-supported agriculture initiative across rural mountain and urban areas in Switzerland
Various grassroots initiatives that have emerged in recent decades reduce our dependence on large-scale industrial agriculture. They decouple food value from volatile markets through close producer-co...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Lehner, I., Amos, S., Mathys, P. & Jacobi, J., (2025) “From the ground up: Exploring the potential contribution of citizens' assemblies in radical food-system transformation”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5842. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
From the ground up: Exploring the potential contribution of citizens' assemblies in radical food-system transformation
To contribute to food-system democratization and its transformation towards socio-ecological sustainability, various civil-society actors jointly organized a national citizens' assembly in Switzerland...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Ismail, A., (2025) “Domesticating neoliberal foodscapes: An everyday approach to understanding food system transitions in Oaxaca, Mexico”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5843. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Domesticating neoliberal foodscapes: An everyday approach to understanding food system transitions in Oaxaca, Mexico
The persistence of neoliberal food systems has often been explained with reference to political economy dynamics or the market and political activities of agri-food companies. This article approaches ...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Domazet, M. & Lubbock, R., (2025) “Movement without a movement: Food self-provisioning in Eastern Europe and the Balkans as emergent transformation towards a degrowth mode of living”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5883. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Movement without a movement: Food self-provisioning in Eastern Europe and the Balkans as emergent transformation towards a degrowth mode of living
The intimate links between agri-food systems and degrowth economics has only recently been addressed in the extant scholarship, much of which centers on the contributions of "food self-provisioning" (...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Kesselman, B. & Zukulu, S., (2025) “Traditional foodways of the Amadiba: A struggle for indigenous food sovereignty in Mpondoland, South Africa”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5933. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Traditional foodways of the Amadiba: A struggle for indigenous food sovereignty in Mpondoland, South Africa
We argue that an "actually existing alternative" to the industrial food system can be found in the Amadiba community in South Africa. Like other indigenous food systems, Amadiba traditional foodways a...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Barrineau, S., (2025) “Knowing soils – Perspectives beyond growth in carbon farming”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5919. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Knowing soils – Perspectives beyond growth in carbon farming
This article works with the idea that radical solutions in agri-food systems require multiple ways of knowing soils beyond the dominant scientific practices. Using a relational lens that invites us to...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Lamotte, L., Ramos-Ballesteros, P., Peña-Cabra, R. & Mathez-Stiefel, S. 2025 ¿Cómo concientizar a lxs jóvenes sobre sus prácticas alimentarias? Una mirada crítica desde metodologías de pedagogía transformadora en Andalucía, España. JPE 32(1):5832 doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
¿Cómo concientizar a lxs jóvenes sobre sus prácticas alimentarias? Una mirada crítica desde metodologías de pedagogía transformadora en Andalucía, España.
En este artículo analizamos dos metodologías de pedagogía transformadora dirigidas a jóvenes de las provincias de Sevilla y Huelva (España), qué buscaron suscitar reflexiones críticas sobre sus prácti...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Pixová M., Spanier J., Guerrero Lara L., Smessaert J., Sandwell K., Strenchock L., et al. 2025. Building solidarities and alliances between degrowth and food sovereignty movements J of Political Ecology 32(1): 5841. ttps://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5841 @pollenetwork.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Building solidarities and alliances between degrowth and food sovereignty movements
Degrowth and food sovereignty movements share commitments to social-ecological transformation, democracy and the flourishing of human and non-human life. Encounters between the two movements have been...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Nedelciu, C. E., Hinton, J., Oostdijk, M., Benabderrazik, K. & Elsler, L. G., (2025) “Beyond growth in food systems: Cultivating seeds of change ”, Grassroots, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 10197. doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Beyond growth in food systems: Cultivating seeds of change
The special issue Post-growth food systems for a just social-ecological transition within planetary boundaries explores post-growth and degrowth approaches that advocate for sufficiency, care, regener...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Biesel, S. A. & Mendonça, E. C., (2025) “Racialized land tenure and the colonial present: Political ecologies of dispossession in Northeast Brazil”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6119. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....
Racialized land tenure and the colonial present: Political ecologies of dispossession in Northeast Brazil
The article introduces the concept of racialized land tenure to illuminate how colonial land governance systems in Brazil continue to shape dispossession and ecological degradation in post-colonial co...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM