Political Ecology

Across Europe, arts and culture are facing defunding, job precarity, censorship, marginalisation, and instrumentalisation by economic and political agendas. How do we assert the value of culture and protect artistic freedom in this challenging landscape? And under what conditions can culture meaningfully contribute to the ecological transformation?

This editorial introduces Acting Out: Arts and Culture Under Pressure, the winter 2025 print edition of the Green European Journal.

Our best hope for effective climate action lies in a new approach to communication that temporarily breaks the boundaries of liberalism.

Parts of the French rural working and lower middle classes live environmentally conscious lives. Yet they rarely call themselves “green”. Why?

The government’s touristification drive is likely to have profound implications for the residents in Albania’s lush northern woods

Eastern Europe can be the incubator of a new climate activism, Dominika Lasota tells Maxine Betteridge-Moes.

Given freedom’s mobilising potential and emotional appeal, deserting the fight over its meaning and ownership is no option for those who care about our common future.

Recognising environmental emotions as public feelings can reconnect people and propel the green movement forward.

EU climate policies and Biden’s IRA were important successes. But the current shifts represent a new challenge for the Green New Deal agenda.

In an increasingly polarised world, how do we mobilise majorities around the politics we desire, rather than the ideas we oppose?

We must adopt a new outlook on borders, free from the shackles of capitalism and inspired by degrowth.