First blog

It is my first blog. I do not have any experience in this field and I am not even sure in which language should I write. But I feel that I should write about this website and this project.

LARES is a project about environmental justice. LARES is an acronym for Landscape of resistance. My idea is that the struggles for environmental justice are shaping new landscape in both material and narrative sense. Those struggles are giving new meanings to places and are building communities where there were only dormitories. I do not believe in a romantic idea that there are communities there which fight against the global capital. I do believe that while the global capital is imposing its political agenda, communities may form exactly n the process of resisting, many times re/inventing shared memories and common past.

I am a historian after all.

I hope with this website is to start something. I know that it is difficult because collaboration is always difficult. Nevertheless, I really hope that this will not be my website, but a common space to work together activists and scholars trying to understand what is happening in the relationships among nature, society, and social inequalities.