Contesting Nature: Nature as a Field of Power, Difference, and Resistance

This chapter focuses on community-based responses to changing political and environmental conditions. The chapter argues that nature is a field of power to illustrate how environments articulate with various forms of difference to become key sintes of struggle, oppression, and resistance. Using a range of examples, including neighborhood movements for resourcefulness in Glasgow UK and urban social movements opposing green gentrification in St Louis USA, the authors highlight a number of ways that communities and activists engage with always-already politicized natures, and how movements might be scaled up or reworked toward more equitable human-environment relations into the future. Chapter insights will be useful for those interested in community and social movements and resistance.