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Political Ecology Deconstructing Capital and Territorializing Life
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Political Ecology [electronic resource] : Deconstructing Capital and Territorializing Life / by Enrique Leff.
ISBN
9783030633257
Edition
1st ed. 2021.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XX, 446 p.)
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Summary
This book offers a conceptual framework for the critical understanding of the present socio-environmental conflicts. It reflects on the evolution of subject and thought, a shift in environmental thinking triggered by the development of eco-territorial conflicts and the social responses given to the environmental question. Bringing together 40 years of the authors writing and research, the book explores the transition from ecological economics and historical materialism to ecological Marxism. It unpacks the forging of political ecology from value theory in political economy, to ecological distribution and ecologies of difference; a transition to an environmental rationality grounded in the ontology of diversity, a politics of difference and an ethics of otherness. This evolution in thinking gives consistency to a theoretical discourse able to respond to the territorial conflicts generated by the radicalization of the environmental question as a key social issue of our times. The book is a call to respond to the urgent challenge of reversing the tendency towards the entropic death of the planet and to building a sustainable world order. Enrique Leff is Senior Researcher for the Social Research Institute and a professor in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is an environmental theorist working in the fields of Political Ecology, Environmental Epistemology and Philosophy, Ecological Economics and Environmental Education. He was UNEP's Coordinator of the Environmental Training Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (1986-2008) and UNEP's Coordinator for Mexico (2007-2008). .
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Language
English
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March 03, 2021
Contents
1. Unbinding the Sustainability of Life on Earth
2. The Social Re-appropriation of Nature
3. Space, Place and Time: The Local Construction of an Environmental Rationality
4. Environmental Rationality and the End of Natural Dialectic
5. Marx's Theory of Value, Technological Change and the Forces of Nature
6. Revaluing Nature: : From Exploitation of Peasantry in Capitalism to Emancipation of Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability of Life on Earth
Chapter 7. Marxism and the Environmental Question: Towards an Environmental Rationality for Sustainability
Chapter 8. De-growth or Deconstruction of the Economy: Towards a Sustainable World
9. Bioeconomics, Negentropic Productivity and Eco-social Sustainability
10. Political Ecology: A Latin American Perspective
11. Power-Knowledge Relations in the Field of Political Ecology
12. The Social Enownment of Nature, the Reinvention of Territories and the Construction of an Environmental Rationality; Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves and Enrique Leff.
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