Preamble : in defense of life in the broadest sense and against terror
Introduction / Philippe Le Billon and Mary Menton
Conflicts in the Amazon : the assassination of José Claudio and MariaClaudelice Santos
How young Cambodian environmental activists work under dictatorship / San Mala
Human rights violations in the name of conservation in the Ngorongoro District / Yannick Ndoinyo
"Environmental defenders": the power / disempowerment of a loaded term / Judith Verweijen, Fran Lambrick, Philippe Le Billon, et al.
Atmospheres of violence : on defenders' intersecting experiences of violence / Mary Menton, Grettel Navas, and Philippe Le Billon
Environmental defenders : killings, perpetrators, and drivers of violence / Philippe Le Billon and Päivi Lujala
The gendered criminalization of land defenders in Ecuador : from individualization to collective resistance in feminized territories / Melissa Moreano Venegas and Karolien van Teijlingen
Insurgent ideas from indigenous peoples in Brazil : counter-colonial epistemologies and the defense of life / Felipe Milanez
The permutations of poverty / Rob Nixon
Violence and resistance in Ceará Indígena, Northeastern Brazil / Jurema Machado de A. Souza, Mary Menton, Antônia Silva Santos, et al.
'Land defenders' and the political ecology of coal power in Bangladesh / Paul Robert Gilbert & Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan
Manifestations of violence : case study of moolampilly eviction for a development project in Kerala / Chitra Karunakaran Prasanna
Defenders and land struggles against agro-industrial and mining investment projects / Louisa Prause and Philippe Le Billon
How violence is justified in 'democratic countries' / Justine Taylor
Resist or comply? : experiences of violence around dams in Cambodia / Sarah Milne
Pacifying autonomous land defenders in Oaxaca, Mexico : human rights groups as social warfare mechanisms / Alexander Dunlap and Martín Correa Arce
Land defenders, infrastructural violence and environmental coloniality : resisting a wastewater treatment plant in Eastern Nablus / Jeanne Perrier
Defending territory from the extraction and conservation nexus / Philippe Le Billon
BINGOs & environmental defenders : NGO complicity in atmospheres of violence and the possibilities for decolonial solidarity with defenders / Mary Menton and Paul Gilbert
Defending territories of life through indigenous and community conserved areas (ICCAs) / Cora Shaw
Interrogating international cooperation in support of environmental human rights defenders : the Geneva roadmap 40/11 and the power of connecting solutions / Peter Bille Larsen and Yves Lador.
