Enacting the Future: Environmental Activism Worldwide

The consequences of environmental changes are notable on a worldwide scale. Recent forms of self-organisation emerge to address these and their possible causes, in the process becoming a global phenomenon. While these different forms of environmental activism operate on a multinational scale, there is a disconnect with many ‘local’ movements, especially from the Global South. In this introduction, we emphasise post- and decolonial perspectives on environmental movements and find three key differences between environmental activism in societies of the Global North and the Global South: these are the movement’s understanding of nature, the forms of mobilisation, and the contexts and material conditions.