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This article discusses the conflicting but potent (dis)encounters among the polymorphic fields of Environmental Education and Cultural Studies. It shows that much research from this articulation has been dedicated to printing erasures in discourses circulating in culture about nature and the environment. But what about when deconstructing is not enough? Recent debates about the environmental crisis, the Anthropocene, climate change and its social developments bring the need for new questions about the connections between culture and environment. Finally, it questions whether the political bias that has marked cultural studies since its emergence may contribute to the search for new radicalisms in Environmental Education. ; Este artigo discute os (des)encontros - conflituosos, mas potentes - entre os polimorfos campos da educação ambiental e dos estudos culturais. Mostra que muitas pesquisas realizadas a partir dessa articulação dedicaram-se a imprimir rasuras em discursos que circulam na cultura sobre natureza e meio ambiente. Mas e quando desconstruir não é o bastante? Os recentes debates sobre a crise ambiental, o Antropoceno, as mudanças climáticas e seus desdobramentos sociais trazem a necessidade de formularmos novas perguntas sobre as conexões entre cultura e ambiente. Por fim, interroga se o viés político que marca os estudos culturais desde sua emergência pode contribuir na busca por novos radicalismos em educação ambiental.

Mainstream media analyses and a large majority of scholarly accounts in European capitals and the US focus disproportionately on the terrorists, or the individuals and organizations involved in the War on Terror. Such mainstream analyses of 9/11 and its aftermath regularly portray citizens and countries in the global South as incapable of resisting or fighting against extremism in their own terms. This article aims to complexify the narrative of Sept. 11, extending it in time and space, and tires to think the post-11 September decade from a de-centered/postcolonial perspective -- that is, a different perspective of the dominant narratives prevalent in the power centers of the global North/West. Adapted from the source document.

In the countdown to the upcoming European elections, analysts have been increasingly paying attention to the political alternatives that intend to undermine the current status quo in Brussels. Within this group, the radical right is preparing to expand its presence in the European Parliament, set to be strengthened by the Lisbon Treaty. This article explores the way these parties have dealt with the European institutions over the last decades, the changes they have been through, as well as the challenges that lie ahead. Although the socioeconomic scenario might favour its ambitions, the radical right still needs to cope with its internal fragilities. Adapted from the source document.

Radical pan-Islamism is a serious threat to universal secularism, the central norm of international order since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. International secularism rests on two principles: firstly, the organization of religion within states is subject to their sovereignty & not to supranational or transnational revolutionary movements, & secondly, religion must not determine the foreign policies & the alliances of the state. The resurgence of pan-Islamic radicalism since September 11, 2001 as a central issue in world politics challenges both principles. Adapted from the source document.