Nature vs Culture: emerging conflicts and citizens’ rights

The nature-culture dichotomy concerns the relationships between humans and the environment. The emerging issues related to climate changes and climate justice, and the increasingly waves of protest in defense of the Planet are today one of the main topics in social movements research.

The abuse of the nature by human behavior and related governments’ decisions raises collective and popular protests that perceive the environmental issue as close and urgent. Socio-environmental conflicts are today widespread in the world and often highlight the violation of local population rights. Resistance movements, conflicts between State authorities and local people, and dissents toward political ecology choices are key examples of the ambivalence nature-culture played through collective action in contemporary society.

The session welcomes empirical research exploring environmental collective action focused on the nature-culture anthropological, social, and political dichotomy involving citizens struggling for a better world.