Who decides the future of the land?

Val Plumwood dissects the masterful dualisms of Western philosophy, showing how human/nature, reason/body, and man/woman turn dependency into a warrant for control.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva link patriarchal capitalism, colonial development, unpaid labor, and ecological harm, proposing subsistence beyond endless growth.

Kancha Ilaiah’s illustrated book for young readers revalues knowledge devalued by caste; Durgabai Vyam’s art is integral to its argument.

Kathryn Yusoff critiques Anthropocene narratives that erase slavery, extraction, and racialized geologic violence behind an abstract “humanity.”

Drawing on Maya Ch’orti’ and Binnizá family memory, environmental science, and community cases, Jessica Hernandez critiques ecocolonialism and reimagines stewardship through Indigenous science.

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing follows matsutake ecology and trade to show how war, migration, and capital shape precarious livelihoods - and how life persists through damaged landscapes.

Vandana Shiva connects industrial agriculture, fossil fuel dependence, and climate crisis, centering small farms, seed diversity, and food sovereignty.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs learns Black feminist survival from marine mammals, linking breath, sound, collective protection, and ecological crisis.

Mary Robinson connects stories from Uganda, Mississippi, and the Pacific to climate justice, gendered labor, migration, human rights, and political voice.

Sarah Jaquette Ray writes for the climate generation about anxiety, burnout, action, and resilience, bringing emotional labor into climate education.

Varda connects discarded food, her aging body and digital filming, asking who defines value and why intimacy must still acknowledge unequal power.

Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s Pulaar-language fable joins a woman’s refusal of prescribed motherhood to love, communal duties and the troubling power of myth.

Indonesian conservationist Farwiza Farhan shows how women rangers in Aceh use local knowledge, collective patrols and community forestry permits to protect the rainforest and water their village depends on.

Anishinaabe attorney and organizer Tara Houska places resistance to the Standing Rock pipeline in a longer history of Indigenous land, sovereignty and cultural continuance, challenging accounts that reduce environmental struggle to a single protest.

Charlotte Bienaimé combines testimony, research and literature, from offices to farms, asking whose labor and knowledge count.