Presentation short abstract

"Militarism, pacifism, environmentalism" This paper explores the processes of militarization from the perspective of necropolitical ecology, from the nuclear tests in Semipalatinsk and Mururoa to the resistance in Vieques, Okinawa, the Niger Delta, Greenham Commons and the Bialowieza Forest. .

Presentation long abstract

"Militarism, pacifism, environmentalism - drawing on the EJAtlas"

Abstract

This article explores the processes of militarization from the perspective of necropolitical ecology, which analyzes how military and state power determine who lives and who dies, both among humans and among other species. Through about twenty cases recorded in the EJAtlas, socio-environmental transformations associated with militarization from the late 1980s to today are examined, from the nuclear tests in Semipalatinsk (Kazakhstan) and Mururoa to the conflicts and resistance movements in Vieques, Okinawa, Guam and Marshall islands, the Niger Delta, Greenham Common and the Bialowieza Forest. These experiences show that wars, military bases, and extractive projects are articulated within a common logic of structural violence and ecological destruction, where territorial control and pollution are instruments of domination. In response, the article highlights really existing and well documented ecofeminist, pacifist, and environmental justice resistance movements as alternatives that articulate the defense of life and peace in this new "age of empires", an increasingly militarized world.