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El planeta Tierra, nuestra morada, está en peligro. ¿Qué podemos hacer para salvarlo? Con una retórica incisiva, el autor aborda este interrogante. Nos invita a recorrer el pensamiento ecológico y político contemporáneo de América Latina mediante el estudio territorial de los extractivismos y las resistencias en el valle de Punilla; en especial el conflicto por la Autovía de Montaña o "Punillazo". Sus estudios combinan un abordaje teórico transdisciplinario y un análisis de caso aplicado a los conflictos socioambientales y las manifestaciones de resistencia. Para marcar el rumbo a seguir, pone en diálogo, de igual a igual, a la ciencia con el pensamiento crítico y los saberes ancestrales de la Tierra. Recupera la dimensión espiritual de la conciencia humana para construir nuevas prácticas, que habiliten los muchos mundos que constituyen al mundo donde habitamos. Este libro nos ofrece otra manera de sentir y de pensar el saber, más allá de la razón instrumental del pensamiento moderno. Sus líneas sugieren sentir-pensar un movimiento ético autoconsciente articulado entre la naturaleza, el individuo y sus entramados relacionales. Representa un llamado a la esperanza para afrontar la brutal crisis civilizatoria que amenaza la existencia de todos los seres vivientes, incluyendo a los humanos, y recupera el testimonio de una praxis de liberación de raigambre ambiental.
En la tradición del fulgurante Manifiesto Comunista, los autores de este libro afirman que un espectro acecha al mundo: el ecologismo. Sin embargo, a diferencia de lo que sucedía hace más de un siglo, ese fantasma no convoca multitudes orgullosas detrás de eslóganes inspiradores. Las preocupaciones ecológicas –el clima, la energía, el acceso al agua, la biodiversidad– están en todas partes y voces de alarma nos taladran la cabeza desde hace décadas anunciando la catástrofe inminente. Pero en vez de traducirse en entusiasmo y movilización, generan angustia, vergüenza, culpabilidad, o incluso irritación frente a lo que se percibe como una "ecología punitiva" que objeta el crecimiento y, por eso, parece pura limitación o retroceso. Sería fácil explicar esta parálisis invocando las campañas de desinformación, el poder de los lobbies, la inercia de las mentalidades, aunque nada de eso impidió nunca que millones de activistas se lanzaran con energía a sus causas. Con gran potencia conceptual, programática y literaria, Bruno Latour y Nikolaj Schultz sostienen que la falta de reacción obedece a razones más profundas. ¿Cómo podría la ecología política pretender movilizar a las multitudes "hacia adelante", fiel a las tradiciones progresistas, cuando lo que cuestiona es justamente el progreso y el imaginario de la producción a cualquier costo? ¿Cómo persuadir de un proyecto que tiene en su centro las condiciones de habitabilidad del planeta si nuestro aparato mental, moral, organizacional, jurídico, está asociado al desarrollo? Para esa tarea, llaman a constituir una nueva clase ecológica, un sujeto colectivo capaz de articular luchas hoy dispersas y dar, desde cero, la batalla cultural por la hegemonía. El enorme desafío es buscar e instalar una narrativa que, en vez de sembrar pánico y hacer bostezar de aburrimiento, configure un horizonte común y un futuro posible.
Los trabajos reunidos en este libro pretenden constituir apuntes para una discusión necesaria, en la dirección de una ecología política latinoamericana, construida en base a un trabajo riguroso de crítica y a una recuperación de la utopía. La ecología política latinoamericana está en elaboración. Se trata de una tarea colectiva, que supone la necesidad de recorres varios caminos vinculados entre sí. Un esclarecimiento conceptual riguroso, y al mismo tiempo flexible. Una dilatada acumulación de informaciones sobre la naturaleza y la historia del continente, especialmente sobre la relación entre ambas y sobre los acontecimientos contemporáneos a escala planetaria. Un trabajo crítico sobre las diferentes formas en que los poderes dominantes en diferentes épocas concibieron y ejecutaron sus estrategias de apropiación de la naturaleza latinoamericana, y un balance de sus consecuencias ambientales y sociales. Un diálogo permanente con territorios del saber científico y tecnológico, especial ...
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals have led to a myriad of contrasting initiatives that are reshaping social relations and rural territories. This edited collection addresses these tensions by unpacking environmental governance as a complex process of formulating and contesting values, procedures and practices shaping the access, control and use of natural resources. Contributors from various fields address the challenges, limitations, and possibilities for a more sustainable, equal, and fair development. In this book, environmental governance is seen as an overarching concept defining the dynamic and multi-layered repertoire of society-nature interactions, where images of nature and discourses on the use of natural resources are mediated by contextual processes at multiple scales.
In this book Carmen Martinez-Vargas explores how academic participatory research and the way it is carried out can contribute to more, or less, social justice. Adopting theoretical and empirical approaches, and addressing multiple complex, intersectional issues, this book offers inspiration for scholars and practitioners to open up alternative pathways to social justice, viewed through a Global South lens. Martinez-Vargas examines the colonial roots of research and emphasises the importance of problematising current practices and limitations in order to establish more just and democratic participatory research practices. Although practitioners have been challenging the Western roots of research and participatory research for decades, their goals can be compromised by pluralities and contradictions in the field. This book aims not to replicate past participatory research approaches, but to offer an innovative theoretical foundation—the Capabilities Approach—and an innovative participatory practice called ‘Democratic Capabilities Research’. Democratising Participatory Research is not only timely and relevant in South Africa, but also in the Global North owing to the current crisis of values jeopardising the peaceful existence of diverse societies. The book gives essential recommendations for capabilities and human development scholars to reframe their perspectives and uses of the Capabilities Approach, as well as for participatory practitioners to critically reflect on their practices and their often limited conceptualisation of participation.
Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept. However, there is a great deal of variety in terms of definitions and interpretations, as well as different methodologies around this concept, which prevents the consolidation of a unified field of new knowledge. The fundamental aim of the book is to conduct a review of the past and present usage of the concept of social metabolism, its origins and history, as well as the main currents or schools that exist around this concept. At the same time, the reviews and discussions included are used by the authors as starting points to draw conclusions and propose a theory of socio-ecological transformations. The theoretical and methodological innovations of this book include a distinction of two types of metabolic processes: tangible and intangible; the analysis of the social metabolism at different scales (in space and time) and a theory of socio-ecological change overcoming the merely “systemic” or “cybernetic” nature of conventional approaches, giving special protagonism to collective action.
The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region. It will help readers make connections between Latin American and other regions’ perspectives, experiences, and environmental concerns. Latin America has seen an acceleration of environmental degradation due to the expansion of resource extraction and urban areas. This Handbook addresses Latin America not only as an object of study, but also as a region with a long and profound history of critical thinking on these themes. Furthermore, the Handbook departs from most treatments on the topic by studying the environment as a social issue inextricably linked to politics, economy, and culture. The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for those wanting not only to understand the issues, but also to engage with ideas about environmental politics and social-ecological transformation. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics organized according to three areas: physical geography, ecology, and crucial environmental problems of the region. These are key theoretical and methodological issues used to understand Latin America’s ecosocial contexts, and institutional and grassroots practices related to more just and ecologically sustainable worlds. The Handbook will set a research agenda for the near future and provide comprehensive research on most subregions relative to environmental transformations, challenges, struggles and political processes. It stands as a fresh and much needed state of the art introduction for researchers, scholars, post-graduates and academic audiences on Latin American contributions to theorization, empirical research and environmental practices.
Zusammenfassung: The books aims to discuss and present an alternative epistemology of human rights, against the background of the globalization from below. The interdependent network of transnational networks, ranging from social movements, NGOs, and other groupings, questions the neoliberal paradigm and a particular set of human rights. This book wishes to transform this discourse on human rights and amplify the subaltern voices. The book also aims to highlight alternative practices of freedom that decenter human rights as a liberation discourse. Following Julia Suarez-Krabbe in "Race, Rights and Rebels", the authors aim to amend to practices of freedom that center different orders of knowledge on subjectivity and agency. The proposed book, first, situates the problem of representation of the marginalized voices in contemporary legal and political discourse. Second, it offers critiques in theory, and, third, followed by alternative practices that emanate from marginalized localities. In particular, this book wishes to reflect upon alternatives rooted in legal and non-legal responses to address human rights grievances. In the end, this book envisages, along the lines of Frantz Fanon, to vision the possibility of the human by a new concept, addressing the concerns in various ways: As Fanon argued for "a new start", "a new way of thinking", and for the creation of a "new man", it is pertinent to trigger a human rights project from the below
Available in English for the first time, a masterwork by Enrique Dussel, one of the world's foremost philosophers, and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.