LUCSUS seminar: "Insurgent ecologies between environmental struggles and postcapitalist transformations"

Book presentation

Insurgent ecologies between environmental struggles and postcapitalist transformations

Speaker: Salvatore Paolo de Rosa, Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen

Discussant: Melissa García-Lamarca, LUCSUS

Insurgent Ecologies takes readers on an inspiring journey across key sites of ecological crisis and contestation, showing how revolutionary politics can emerge from the convergences between place-based, often disconnected struggles. These engaging essays speak to longstanding debates in political ecology around how to advance transformations in, against and beyond capitalism. The collection starts from the belief that environmental struggles across the Global South and North are a necessary component of such transformations. The book presents unique stories of the visions and strategies of struggles organised around sovereignty, land, climate, feminisms and labour, written by scholar-activists rooted in territories around the globe, offering locally grounded yet global perspectives. Each story reflects on how to build solidarity and comradeship across diverse struggles and how new political subjects and transformative collective projects for social-ecological justice are created.

Salvatore Paolo De Rosa's work spans the fields of anthropology, political ecology, and environmental humanities, with a focus on environmental conflicts, grassroots organising and climate justice movements. Currently, he studies the repression and policing of activism in Denmark and participates in anti-repression networks and organising. He's the co-editor, with Armiero and Turhan, of the volume Urban Movements and Climate Change (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). He's a founding member and editor of the collective Undisciplined Environments, and a collaborator of the independent media Napoli Monitor.