This paper aims to redress the under-appreciated significance of rent for political ecological analysis. “Value Grabbing”: A Political Ecology of Rentĭiego Andreucci, Melissa García-Lamarca, Jonah Wedekind & Erik Swyngedouw Taken together, the articles in this special issue present new ways of thinking and enacting political and ecological struggles outside established scholarly traditions and conventional disciplines. Moreover, they focus on how struggles can (and do) move from contesting capitalist forms of dispossession towards creating alternative “hegemonic” projects and blocs, by critiquing received “common sense” and constructing and performing alternative political ecological imaginaries informed by principles of solidarity and “commoning”. Second, the authors of this special issue analyse new and re-emerging forms of socio-ecological resistance and contestation, including both distributional struggles and movements against “commons’ enclosures”. Specifically, they unpack and critically extend the frameworks of “accumulation by dispossession” and “nature’s neoliberalisation” to engage with, among other cases, the political ecology of “austerity” in Southern Europe historical and contemporary cases of “capital-driven disasters” and political ecological dynamics taking place around relationships of “rent”. First, they critically analyse the political economy and ecology of contemporary capitalism, with an emphasis on accumulation strategies associated with the uneven expansion and crisis of neoliberalism. By mobilising conceptual frameworks from several strands of Marxist and post-structuralist theory-and empirically engaging with a range of historico-geographical processes-the articles in this issue contribute to debates in political ecology in two main ways. This special issue presents findings and reflections of scholars who participated in the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE). Here you can find the titles, authors and abstracts:Ĭapital Accumulation, Hegemony and Socio-ecological Struggles: Insights from the ENTITLE Projectĭiego Andreucci, María Jesús Beltrán, Irina Velicu & Christos Zografos

Two of these three articles have as author Diego Andreucci (ENT) and another Santiago Gorostiza (ENT fellow).

In the September issue of the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism (Volume 28), there are three articles linked to members of ENT.

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