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This panel builds on themes of a 2021 AAG panel, in which we queried the persistence of colonial ideas and ideologies about nature-cultures, and their simultaneous disruption by ongoing decolonial struggles. The papers in this paper examine struggles for social justice (including for decolonialization) across different geographies to examine how they are more than simply alternatives or oppositions to prior methodological and analytical critiques of the state, capital and power. Rather, panelists:

• contextualize current processes of social change within broader and longer genealogies of anti-colonialism and radical justice struggles (including decolonial, anti-capitalist, feminist, and others);
• draw attention to how the politics and praxis of change are contingent, ongoing, full of contradictions, compromise, conflict, and “making do;”
• highlight the pragmatic and strategic approaches to organizing that communities and movements take which celebrate the numerous small achievements that exist within larger contexts of dispossession and violence;
• mobilize feminist and other critical methodologies to parse the ambivalences of representation, responsibility, and subject formation;
• employ and critically question key terms (nature, gender, land, indigeneity, racialization, territory/territoriality property, decolonization, and more) of the politics of struggles for just geographies

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