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Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia: Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages

Edited by Joshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto

In order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors—scholar-activists and activist-practitioners— examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action; and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating sustainable local cultures.

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A Revolt that never was? On the aftermath of the 2025 Indonesian protests

Iqra Anugrah and Rachma Lutfiny Putri

Political upheavals can feel like riding a roller coaster – exhilarating at the beginning, full of adrenaline rush, until it suddenly stops. This is what happened to the biggest protests against Prabowo administration and its erratic policies in late August-early September last year (Anugrah and Putri 2025). Mass arrests of protesters (including dissenting netizens), declining momentum of the protest demands, and deadly floods in Sumatra due to extractivist deforestation (Syaifullah and Adawiah 2026) virtually put major demonstration activities on halt. Compounding these structural hurdles was the lackluster move of liberal influencers and public figures whose naive political steps – such as overreliance on fanbase mobilization and engagement in an appeasement dialogue with a few members of parliament (MPs) – effectively contributed to the moderation of an otherwise brewing struggle.

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At the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, in Belém do Pará, my field research at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30/UNFCCC) involved me in circumstances I could never have imagined and which led me to write this account.

A fire broke out in the tents of the Blue Zone, the area restricted to accredited delegations, and sent me running without a backward glance, dropping my field notebook with my annotations on two weeks of intense activities as I fled.

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Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access.