Tightening the grip of control: eco-justice activists’ experiences of repression during the pandemic

• In Event: The Criminalisation of Environmental Activism

Abstract

This paper focuses on the experiences of repression, policing and state-corporate control of activists fighting for eco-justice during the COVID-19 pandemic – both from across Brazil and from a specific Italian city (Trento). Drawing on two qualitative studies conducted by the two authors during the pandemic and using analytical insights from critical and green criminology and political ecology, this paper unveils activists’ experiences of repression and control during the COVID health crisis, which they saw as further tightening.

Authors

• Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, University of Brighton

• Anna Di Ronco, University of Essex