Originating in the 1970s in the United States, bioregionalism is an environmental movement that grew out of radical activist and artistic practices. It emerged in France in the 2010s through activist and academic circles, before being used in the most recent presidential campaign. “Bioregionalism” originally meant “learning to belong somewhere,” “living within the limits of a place,” and “creating a way of life that can be passed on to future generations” (Judith Plant). 

Is this localist philosophy bound to remain compatible with xenophobic ideologies? Under what conditions could it form an alliance with decolonial struggles? A “decolonial bioregionalism”—or the search for a non-anthropocentric coexistence that never turns a blind eye to the systemic domination and discrimination at work.