The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science
research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies …

Building on the work of Saidiya Hartman, Black studies scholars have long theorized and
analyzed what it means to exist in the afterlife of slavery, which refers to the precarity and …

This paper presents a vegetal political ecology of weeds. Weeds have barely been analysed
in the burgeoning field of 'more-than-human'scholarship, this despite their ubiquity and …

Drawing on ethnographic research with Indigenous Māori women in northern Aotearoa
(New Zealand) we challenge the presumed benefits of neoliberal, infrastructural-focussed …

Discrete monuments remain in the domain of the symbolic, land as mnemonic shifts to a
more materialist commemorative praxis. This paper proposes a turn toward land as …

Nancy Fraser's recent work on the hidden abodes of capitalism has quickly become a critical
point of reference for those concerned with the racialized, gendered, and ecological …

Five hundred years of desire for cotton has reshaped landscapes, built global economic
commodity chains, and devalued human life in the name of producing cheap clothing. Since …

This article examines the River Wye in the southwest UK as a political ecology marked by
relations of colonial inheritance. A controversial case of contemporary British river pollution …

For decades, critical agri-food scholarship has sought to evaluate the outcomes of
alternative agri-food systems such as organic. Two key critiques have emerged: the first …

In this article, we focus on the agro-environmental dimensions of plantation agriculture in the
US South, examining the ways carceral relations constrain foodways through the …