Soybeans are ubiquitous in the global food system. As a major forest risk commodity, they
are also at the heart of efforts to untangle the dynamics of land use change and associated …

This article introduces the concept of penal extractivism in the punishment and society
literature. We define penal extractivism as the punitive strategies that a state implements to …

This book addresses the policing and social control of eco–justice movements during the
COVID–19 pandemic, as well as activist practices of resistance during the same period. It is …

The article analyses an original database of 177 Latin American women activists killed that
had some connection with feminist social movements from 2015 to 2023. A growing body of …

Social movements, justice campaigns and civil activism have gained recent scholarly
attention among non-Western democracies since the end of the Cold War. Yet the meaning …

This chapter focuses on the experiences of repression, policing and state-corporate control
of activists fighting for eco-justice during the COVID-19 pandemic—both from across Brazil …

Latin America and the Caribbean encompass 33 countries, as well as 15 territories
administered by France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States. As a vast …

The criminalization of activists and social movements poses concrete challenges to the
exercise of democratic rights and the manifestation of demands for social justice. This …