Round Table – “Mapping Other Futures: For a Popular, Feminist, and Decolonial Ecology”

Context:

As the planet tips into the irreversible, ecological crises are accelerating: rising sea levels, droughts, wildfires, the collapse of biodiversity… Climate chaos is not a neutral phenomenon. It is the product of an extractivist, colonial, and capitalist system that systematically destroys ecosystems and deems certain lives disposable. Women, racialized people, Indigenous peoples, and communities in the Global South bear the heaviest burden. Far from being accidental, ecocide is a political project, sustained by patriarchal, racist, and neoliberal systems of domination.

In this context, technocratic and depoliticized responses are not enough. It is urgent to reintegrate ecology into a radical critique of power relations, and to rekindle the fire of ecofeminist, decolonial, and anticapitalist struggles.

Rooted in bodies and territories, these movements offer vital alternatives: they resist dispossession, care for life, and invent other ways of living on this planet.

Far from sanitized green narratives, this roundtable takes place in the rebellious and transnational spirit of the Margins: On Fire! festival. It aims to amplify the voices and practices of ecological struggles from the margins—those that have long resisted, and continue to shape the future of ecologically just, feminist, and decolonial worlds.

Session Objectives:

  • Deconstruct dominant ecological narratives by exposing their neocolonial, extractivist, and patriarchal foundations.

  • Highlight ecological struggles led by women, racialized people, and grassroots collectives situated at the margins.

  • Explore convergences between ecofeminism, decolonial ecologies, and anticapitalist resistance.

  • Create a strategic space for dialogue between scholars, activists, and practitioners to share practices of resistance and territorial care.

Location: Académie du Climat, 2 place Baudoyer, 75004 Paris

Date & Time: Saturday, June 7 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Participants: Ida Paraskeva, Sonia Barnat (Front de Mères), Lydie Rauld, moderated by Myriam Zekagh

Language(s): English & French (simultaneous translation)

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