Minds of the Movement

An ICNC blog on the people and power of civil resistance

Michael Wilson Becerril

Michael Wilson Becerril (he/él), P.h.D. is an activist-scholar with more than ten years of experience working for social and environmental justice. is the author of Resisting Extractivism: Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021), His written work has appeared in the Journal of Resistance Studies, Feminist Review, Terrorism & Political Violence, Peace Review, Human Rights Review, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, the Environmental Justice Atlas, Latino Rebels, and others. He recenlty authored Resisting Extractivism: Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021). His research has been supported by a University of California Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship from the United States Institute of Peace, and a Ph.D. Fellowship from ICNC, among others. He currently serves on the board of directors at Our Climate.

Writings from Michael Wilson Becerril

Articles

#5: Marginalized Communities Are the Frontline Leaders of 2020’s Environmental Movements

In 2020, youth climate activists collaborated on nonviolent actions in more than 40 countries, staged climate strikes on every continent, and developed mutual aid networks to cope with the Covid-19 crisis. However, perhaps their most outstanding accomplishment has been mainstreaming the links between the global pandemic, structural oppression, and the post-colonial social order that is making the planet uninhabitable. […]

by Michael Wilson Becerril
January 18, 2021

Interviews & People

An Activist-Scholar’s Insights on Researching Civil Resistance and Environmental Justice

Given the scale, intensity, and compounding effects of climate change, it has never been more important to defend the environment. To make matters more urgent, resource conflicts are becoming increasingly deadly in the past couple of decades. This is why people refer to environmental activism nowadays as a “suicide mission,” especially in countries that emerge from colonialism with commodity-dependent economies and weak political institutions. […]

by Michael Wilson Becerril
February 21, 2018