The ''Green European Journal'' is an online and biannual print magazine that publishes analysis, debates, and interviews on political ecology, current affairs, and topics of significance to the green movement. The journal is published in English and offers translations in 21 languages.
Overview
The magazine was established in 2012, with the objective of providing a venue for European-level debate amongst the green movement in Europe.
Supported by the
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adop ...
., the Green European Journal is linked to but editorially independent from the
Green European Foundation
The Green European Foundation is a political foundation at European level funded by the European Parliament. It is linked to, but independent of, other European Green actors such as the European Green Party and Greens–European Free Alliance.
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Although based in Brussels, Belgium, the magazine covers analysis on a European-wide context. It has various partner organisations and publications in different European countries, including Bright Green, Krytyka Polityczna, and the
Heinrich Böll Foundation
The Heinrich Böll Foundation (german: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V., HBS) is a German, legally independent political foundation. Affiliated with the German Green Party, it was founded in 1997 when three predecessors merged. The foundation was ...
, among others.
Print edition
The Green European Journal’s printed editions take an in-depth look at a given topic and appear about two times a year. The first issue published in 2012 focussed on the European economic crisis. Subsequent issues have covered various topics, including
climate change
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,
degrowth
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,
agriculture
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,
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COVID-19
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, among others.
The print issues are designed by Claire Allard and feature illustrations by the Belgian illustrator Klaas Verplancke. They are available to read online and order in print.
Online media
The magazine publishes articles online throughout the year on its website on a variety of topics ranging from the Green New Deal and decolonial ecology to the geopolitics of climate breakdown. It publishes predominately in English along with articles and translations in 21 other languages.
Podcast
The magazine also publishes audio versions of selected articles in the form of a podcast titled Green Wave. It was listed as one of the best podcasts on EU politics by policylab.eu. It is available on all podcast platforms to listen to and download.
Notable Contributors
Notable authors whose work has been published in the Green European Journal include
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalisation author. Based in Delhi, Shiva has written more than 20 books. She is often referred to as "Gandhi ...
Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti (; born 28 September 1954) is a contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician.
Biography
Career
Braidotti, who holds Italian and Australian citizenship, was born in Italy and moved to Australia when she was 16, where she r ...
Natalie Bennett
Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (born 10 February 1966) is a Australian-British politician and journalist who served as Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in ...
,
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (; ; born 4 April 1945) is a French-German politician of Jewish descent. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and was also known during that time as ''Dany le Rouge'' (French for "Danny the Red ...
Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorow (; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog '' Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent o ...
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Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born 12 April 1948) is a German retired politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. He served as the foreign minister and as the vice-chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. F ...
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David Graeber
David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books '' Debt: The First 5,000 Years'' (2011) and '' Bullshit Jobs ...
,
Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe (; born 17 June 1943) is a Belgian political theorist, formerly teaching at University of Westminster.
She is best known for her contribution to the development—jointly with Ernesto Laclau, with whom she co-authored her most fre ...
Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis ( el, Ιωάννης Γεωργίου "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης, Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis, ; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist and politician. A former academic, he served as the Gree ...
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Awards
The Green European Journal has been awarded the House of eu. and was recognized as one of the best .eu websites of 2019 by EURid.