Austerity and Anti-Austerity Environmentalism

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Authors
Publication date 2026
Host editors
  • Jessica Hope
  • Elia Apostolopoulou
  • Yolande Ariadne Collins
Book title The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology
ISBN
  • 9781032555003
  • 9781032555010
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781003430995
Series Routledge international handbooks
Chapter 30
Pages (from-to) 281-288
Publisher London: Routledge
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract In this chapter we address the socio-environmental impacts of austerity by following a Gramscian political ecology approach, with a special focus on Gramsci's notion of the philosophy of praxis. This approach provides pathways for understanding how austerity shapes the dynamics of environmental conflict and offers insights into how the subaltern mobilises environmental issues to both fight against the normalisation of austerity over time and attempt to generate solidarity-making, new forms of self-organisation and mobilisation, and alternative conceptions of the world.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003430995-33 (Final published version)
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