@davidegilbert
not a metaphor // @ Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) // author of 𝐶𝘰𝑢𝘯𝑡𝘦𝑟𝘪𝑛𝘨 𝘋𝑖𝘴𝑝𝘰𝑠𝘴𝑒𝘴𝑠𝘪𝑜𝘯, 𝑅𝘦𝑐𝘭𝑎𝘪𝑚𝘪𝑛𝘨 𝘓𝑎𝘯𝑑 https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520397767/countering-dispossession-reclaiming-land
🇨🇴 🌎✊🏾🌽 #CIRADR20 Cientos de delegadxs de movimientos sociales y organizaciones participaran del *Foro de los Pueblos y Movimientos Sociales
📲 www.foodsovereignty.org
The term "concentration camp" was used in the Boer War to describe mass imprisonment of civilians, which is exactly what is happening in America today.
My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]
Does imagining the future fill you with dread? Enter Solarpunk. In this comprehensive introduction, the environmental philosopher Yogi Hale Hendlin details the concepts, ethos and visions underpinning this daring, startling vision of a more ecologically grounded future @feralyogi.bsky.social
"(...) from the grassroots through the perfumed circles of the black bourgeoisie (...)"
www.marxists.org/archive/newt...
A poem for everyone across Catalonia tonight:
The wind // has no friend // but you //
Schools are closed for high winds // they say the turbulence will intensify //
Who was it that called it the winds of change? // if its not you then its not anyone //
Thanks to @drxdunlap.bsky.social and @theobromin.bsky.social for the editorial input, and Human Geography for publishing
This is my second of two articles looking at first blockades and now sabotage to keep oil in the ground, expand Indigenous anarchist control of autonomous territories, and nurture new natures
Our collection of articles on emancipatory sabotage is coming together. My contribution “Domination and Sabotage”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
![A 2x2 matrix titled "Sabotage Matrix", showing the material and immaterial effects of infrastructure sabotage, divided into destructive (left) and constructive (right) axes.
Top-left (Q1): Labeled "Destructive material effects" with a photo of a partially dismantled dam.
Top-right (Q2): Labeled "Constructive material effects" with a photo of a dislodged water pipe on dry earth.
Bottom-left (Q3): Labeled "Destructive ideational effects", with the quote: "We are saying [sabotage] is good, because it has made the things that were in darkness to come into the light."
Bottom-right (Q4): Labeled "Constructive ideational effects", with the quote: "The reason for us being included, it is because of the destructions they have seen."
The vertical axis is labeled "Material" (top) and "Immaterial" (bottom), and the horizontal axis is labeled "Destructive" (left) and "Constructive" (right).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:opouudsmslyt4wwrlgf7v4ca/bafkreif3uyqyulyovtfcwpsmqtkisuxnb2d6nh6dfissgaqqal3zvnk65e@jpeg)
A 2x2 matrix titled "Sabotage Matrix", showing the material and immaterial effects of infrastructure sabotage, divided into destructive (left) and constructive (right) axes. Top-left (Q1): Labeled "Destructive material effects" with a photo of a partially dismantled dam. Top-right (Q2): Labeled "Constructive material effects" with a photo of a dislodged water pipe on dry earth. Bottom-left (Q3): Labeled "Destructive ideational effects", with the quote: "We are saying [sabotage] is good, because it has made the things that were in darkness to come into the light." Bottom-right (Q4): Labeled "Constructive ideational effects", with the quote: "The reason for us being included, it is because of the destructions they have seen." The vertical axis is labeled "Material" (top) and "Immaterial" (bottom), and the horizontal axis is labeled "Destructive" (left) and "Constructive" (right).
Can sabotage be an act of care? A way to build the future?
In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Eric Kioko & I introduce the Sabotage Matrix, a tool to rethink infrastructure sabotage as both destructive and constructive.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
The open access authors version is available here: ddd.uab.cat/record/325388
Thanks to @natureandspace.bsky.social for their publishing this piece: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Grateful to have collaborated on this work with many great minds --> How to create new, more equal and less violent worlds? Degrowth visions promise such worlds, but a central problem remains how to understand degrowth as it exists now. Here we offer some ways to ground degrowth political theorizing
OnlineFirst - "Encountering degrowth" by @davidegilbert.bsky.social, Donatella Gasparro, Giorgos Kallis, Lucia Munoz-Sueiro, Julia Grosinger, Maroula Tsagkari, Feroz Khan, Grace Wright, and Angelos Varvarousis:
@icta-uab.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
To face the production of plastic mats in factories (unending, massive, disposable, ecologically damaging) with a grassy per- sistence (tenacious, expansive, rooted, ecological).
Thukul’s poem made perfect sense for elaborating Sumatran peasant movements’ relation to ideas of degrowth, this choice of grounding oneself in a material fabric of plastic (state, corporation, industry, fossil fuel) or grass (community, union, artisanal, ecological).
"Plastic mat, grass mat, plastic mat, grass mat, a symbol of two forces. Plastic mat, grass mat, we sit facing each other. Plastic mats are made in factories, grass mats are woven by hand. Plastic mats are pressed nonstop, grass mats still persist. Where are you sitting? "
I nodded my head and remembered how Widji’s name translates to “the sprouting seed” in Javanese. “Ah, well listen to this.” Afzal played a song, Sanggar Satu Bumi’s adaptation of Thukul’s 1994 poem, Grassroots:
A bit of my writing just published, "Encountering Degrowth"
...he asked me if I knew of Widji Thukul, the poet and PRD activist that New Order special forces police disappeared in February of 1998...
Books read in the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi in 2025 one would recommend: 3.
#BookSky 📚💙
From warehousing commodities to detaining human beings the slippery slope is a fascist one
degrowth movements and theories give a clear reading of these forces as being part of the source of exploitation of life, both social and ecological. So no matter where they claim to be on the political spectrum we understand them as driving many crisis
hopefully more and more we will have an opening for other voices
congrats to Alejo García and Michael Mascarenhas for the great article in Capitalism Nature Socialism
www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...
Paragraph describing how Gilbert and Malam are leading conversations about social transformation involving disruption and blockades
Cool to see my and also @drxdunlap.bsky.social ' s recent work put into dialogue with Malm. For a few years there it felt like Malm was taking all the oxygen for analysis of ecological struggle. My work tries to reorient analysis of social transformation to be more engaged, pragmatic & ethnographic
With Pirate Care, La Laboratoria , Territorio Doméstico, Resist Glencore Network, Mondeggi Bene Comune, Borderlands Farmworkers Project, ver.di organizers, IDRA cooperative, Radical Abundance, European Legal Support Centre, Pluto Press, and many more radical journalists, researchers, organizers...
Dear world! We're kicking into 2026 with a densely packed programme for skilling-up and building alliance, leverage and literacy! And we want YOU, to join our amazing Co-learning Circle and build a common journey! We start March 4th. Check out the agenda & sign up commonecologies.net/courses/know...
