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DEEP SEA MINING AT THE THRESHOLD: THE POLITICS OF THE SEABED?

John Childs This article originally appeared on Discover Society Plenty of virtual ink has been spilled predicting the advent of commercial deep-sea mining (DSM). Successful extraction of zinc, gold and copper has already taken place in Japan in late 2017. Several other countries who have identified deep-sea mineral deposits in their territorial waters are considering whether … Read more DEEP SEA MINING AT THE THRESHOLD: THE POLITICS OF THE SEABED?

January updates from POLLEN

Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to the first monthly update from POLLEN in 2019. We hope everyone had a restful break – even though it seems like a very long time ago already! Many thanks to everyone who sent in their contributions – the number of publications, opportunities, news articles … Read more January updates from POLLEN

Essay: Political ecologists in solidarity with Nicaragua

By Noémi Gonda, Frédéric Huybrechs, René Rodríguez-Fabilena, Gert Van Hecken, and other political ecologists from Nicaragua whose names are not displayed for security reasons For over 3 months, Nicaragua has been facing its worst political crisis in recent decades. The simmering discontent erupted as a full-blown crisis on 18 April 2018, when promulgated reforms of … Read more Essay: Political ecologists in solidarity with Nicaragua

Essay: Cut the CAP

Tanglewest Douglas, an undergraduate ecology student at Lancaster University, reflects on a film showing organised by the Lancaster University node and the Landworkers’ Alliance, and what both the film and the debate that followed tell us about current questions around the future of food and farming. Cut the CAP The Lancaster POLLEN node recently organised … Read more Essay: Cut the CAP

Essay: seeding new ideas in the neoliberal city

We’re happy to share with you this beautiful essay, the first in what we hope will be a series of essays about political ecology in practice. If you would like to contribute an essay, please get in touch! El silencio del viento contrario By Massimo Paolini The nocturnal wanders through Zurich of a man who … Read more Essay: seeding new ideas in the neoliberal city

Welcome

Welcome to the POLLEN website! POLLEN is a global network, consisting of a large variety of political ecologists. As individuals or small groups, these political ecologists have formed so-called ‘nodes’ and interact through POLLEN. The aim of POLLEN is to facilitate interaction and creativity through ‘cross-fertilization’ and to promote the important field of political ecology … Read more Welcome

About POLLEN

POLLEN is an umbrella organization of political ecology researchers, groups, projects, networks and ‘nodes’ across the globe. As the name suggests, POLLEN seeks to provide a platform for the ‘cross fertilization’ of ideas and where the world’s many rich, diverse traditions can come together, discuss, and debate the latest developments in the field. Historically, the … Read more About POLLEN

POLLEN Nodes

As you can see from the map, at this stage POLLEN is still very Eurocentric. However, we want everyone to be aware that we welcome nodes from all over the world! To start your own POLLEN node, please fill in your details on our open Google Sheets membership database, and email the POLLEN secretariat (currently … Read more POLLEN Nodes

Start your own POLLEN node!

To start your own POLLEN node, please fill in your details on our open Google Sheets membership database, and email the POLLEN secretariat (currently hosted by the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University) at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com to request that your node is added to the website.

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