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Paper panel with individual presenters

Long Abstract

In contexts of environmental emergencies, conflicts between social movements and the state reveal the exhaustion of the current "development growth" model. This is palpable in the processes of deregulation, dispossession, and extractivism within the manifold manifestations of racial capitalism, colonialism, and gender relations that generate environmental struggles. This panel examines various case studies that highlight the unequal power relations between grassroots and the state, often in complicity with the private sector and often under colonial relations. Using an approach that recognizes the diversity of political ecologies, the panel examines several case studies from different parts, ranging from the Global South and Global North. We propose several questions for reflection: What is the state of the current environmental debate, and what connections can we identify with the broader socioeconomic situation in the country or colonial territory? What lessons can be identified that lead to a more radical process of socio-environmental transformation by examining multiple stories of community resistance to dispossession? What structural limitations and aspects of injustice can be identified in these cases? How can the concrete proposals of these social movements inform the articulation of other possible alternatives to "growth"? We argue that the global environmental emergencies require processes of social organization and political formation that are sufficiently autonomous to challenge the very logic of current public policy, guaranteeing a truly critical space for achieving alternative processes of growth/degrowth and socio-environmental justice.

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