Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Boxes
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Beyond Modern Environmentalism
- 2 Suburb, Field, Laboratory: Recomposing Geographies of Early Environmentalism
- First Interlude: Green and White Dreams
- 3 Revolt Against One-Worldism: Radical Claims on Land and Work Post-1968
- Second Interlude: Planetary Icons
- 4 The Right to Subsist: Transnational Commons Against the Enclosure of Environments and Environmentalism
- Third Interlude: Witnessing in the Global Resonance Machine
- 5 Earth Politics: Disagreement and Emergent Indigeneity in the So-Called Anthropocene
- Fourth Interlude: Making Things Resonate
- 6 Conclusion: Resonance Beyond Environmentalism
- Coda: Afterlives
- Notes
- References
- Index
Coda: Afterlives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Boxes
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Beyond Modern Environmentalism
- 2 Suburb, Field, Laboratory: Recomposing Geographies of Early Environmentalism
- First Interlude: Green and White Dreams
- 3 Revolt Against One-Worldism: Radical Claims on Land and Work Post-1968
- Second Interlude: Planetary Icons
- 4 The Right to Subsist: Transnational Commons Against the Enclosure of Environments and Environmentalism
- Third Interlude: Witnessing in the Global Resonance Machine
- 5 Earth Politics: Disagreement and Emergent Indigeneity in the So-Called Anthropocene
- Fourth Interlude: Making Things Resonate
- 6 Conclusion: Resonance Beyond Environmentalism
- Coda: Afterlives
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
We have also heard and seen the resistances and rebellions that, even when silenced or forgotten, do not cease to be vital indicators of a humanity that refuses to follow the system's hurried pace toward collapse. … They show us that the cure, if there is one, is global; it is the color of the earth, the color of the work that lives and dies in the streets and barrios, oceans and skies, hills and valleys—like the originary maize, it has many colors, hues, and sounds.
Part Six: A Mountain on the High Seas (communiqué from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation, October 2020)These words were written by Subcomandante Moisés, General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation, in October 2020. The poetic style and generous embrace of difference-in-struggle should be familiar to anyone who has read Zapatista communiques over the past 30 years. The context of writing is very different, though, to the one we explored in Chapter 4. The COVID-19 pandemic; the increasing regularity and intensity of climatic events; the imminent possibility of biodiversity collapse are different symptoms of systemic breakdown on a planetary scale. As one response to this emerging scenario, the Zapatistas announced they would leave the Jungle and come to the world. This was the basis of their ‘Journey for Life’ – an expedition of Zapatista representatives across the Atlantic, and ultimately to five continents. Reversing the original expedition of European conquest, the ‘Journey for Life’ was not about obtaining compensation or seeking apologies from Spain. Rather, the Zapatistas made clear that they were journeying to meet others in resistance; others who were also fighting for life against the patriarchal, oppressive and exploitative system of global capitalism.
As part of the ‘Journey for Life’, a contingent of Zapatista men and women arrived in Ireland in October 2021. In advance of their arrival there was a flurry of organising by individuals, activists and community groups keen to meet with and host them.
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- All We Want Is the EarthLand, Labour and Movements beyond Environmentalism, pp. 141 - 144Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2023