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Este trabajo examina la violencia asociada a la conflictividad socioambiental en contextos de megaminería en el continente americano. A través de un análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de fuentes secundarias, identificamos 372 conflictos en todo el continente, lo que representa 65% de los conflictos mineros a nivel global. Además, 90% de los casos documentados ocurren en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Nuestros hallazgos revelan una asociación estadísticamente significativa, con 99% de confianza, entre la presencia de pueblos indígenas en la resistencia a proyectos megamineros y una mayor incidencia de criminalización, represión y asesinato, destacando cómo la megaminería amenaza principalmente a territorios rurales. Este estudio aporta a la comprensión de las dinámicas de poder en la conflictividad socioambiental, subrayando la urgencia de reimaginar nuestras sociedades hacia modelos que prioricen la justicia social y ambiental.

Este artículo conceptualiza las ecologías del deseo. Lo hace acompañando la heterogénesis de la silla Canoa, un proyecto que cose en una red deseante doméstica, que emancipa a aquellos actantes implicados en sus políticas de diseño. El dispositivo que conforma la silla Canoa es concebido para el disfrute e independencia doméstica de la modista Madame Mathieu-Levy, siendo la arquitecta Eileen Gray quien la construye para su apartamento de la rue Lotta en 1919. En la arquitectura se canalizan dichas ecologías del deseo desde la domesticidad hacia lo social, la silla Canoa encabeza y anticipa discusiones de la contemporaneidad porque despliega un conjunto de modos de vida domésticos caleidoscópicos y alternativos. Las ecologías del deseo se conceptualizan utilizando la metodología generativa de Félix Guattari (1989), quien amplía la percepción de la ecología en dichos términos generativos y ahonda en la producción de subjetividades a través del deseo, desde el procedimiento de heterogénesis. Hay tres discusiones de la ecología del deseo: la primera discusión es la ecología del deseo seductora, la cual desarrolla un estudio sobre la subjetividad del “ladeo erotizado”; la segunda es la ecología del deseo queer que desmenuza el “dispositivo giratorio” de Paul B. Preciado (2010); la tercera discusión es la ecología del deseo activista, que debate como el biodiseño del dispositivo activa nuevas micropolíticas de lo femenino. Las capas generativas de la silla Canoa ensamblan nuevas urdimbres de contemporaneidad en la construcción política, social y cultural de los dispositivos de control hasta ahora domesticados. Las contribuciones que se plantean amplían la documentación crítica existente sobre la icónica silla Canoa. Este trabajo, aporta a la conceptualización de las capas de ecología del deseo a través de la resignificación de otras políticas de ideación de proyectos de arquitectura. La silla Canoa abre una puerta a la mujer contemporánea desde su salón hacia la ciudad.

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Este texto ofrece una lectura eco-fisiológica de la relación entre la inmunidad y el metabolismo capitalista, ofreciendo a los debates de la inmunología política contemporánea un lecho biofísico en el que aterrizar. El argumento central del texto es que ambos procesos, metabólico e inmunológico, son esenciales para la conservación de la homeodinámica del capital: su tendencia adaptativa al crecimiento permanente. Desde este enfoque, el texto analiza las dependencias anatómicas y circulatorias del metabolismo capitalista tras la Gran Aceleración, y dialoga con Byung-Chul Han, Inge Mutsaers y Laura Quintana para esclarecer la naturaleza de los procesos que sirven a la inmunización del crecimiento ilimitado.

Entre 1920 y 1921 se puso en marcha la GOELRO o Comisión Estatal para la Electrificación de Rusia. Dicha institución presentó un ambicioso plan de electrificación del país que pronto se convirtió en una verdadera política de Estado. Uno de sus principales defensores e impulsores fue Lenin. Sus motivaciones eran: industrializar la URSS, conquistar apoyos en la comunidad científica y técnica, integrar al campesinado en el poder soviético y explotar los recursos naturales del gigantesco territorio. Ahora, cien años después de la muerte del líder bolchevique, cabe preguntarse por los aspectos políticos y culturales de aquel gran proyecto tecnológico. Cuestiones como el peso que tuvieron ciertos planteamientos tecnocráticos o determinadas visiones de dominio sobre la naturaleza nos ayudan a analizar la electrificación liderada por Lenin en términos de ecología política.

We argue for a radical reconfiguration of existing theorizations of the "lively commodity"—beings captured, cultivated, and traded for their very lives—on more inclusive terms. Specifically, we advocate the inclusion of animals intended for dietary consumption, in recognition of the demonstrable centrality of encounters between human beings in their role as consumers and the animals and animal parts offered for sale in Hong Kong's many wet markets to the processes of commodification. Based on semistructured interviews with vendors and consumers (n = 86) and a variety of modes of ethnographic observation (including narrative, photography, and several forms of videography), we analyze three groups of practices and strategies for structuring and negotiating productive encounters (which we label provoking motion, stimulating appetite, and maintaining life) observed in twenty-seven different wet markets across Hong Kong between June and September 2022. Our analysis also suggests critical issues and directions for future research rooted in, at minimum, crucial differences in the scalar, temporal, ecological, and ethical dimensions of diverse processes of lively commodification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Air pollution now affects 92 percent of the global population and is responsible for one out of nine deaths, nearly two thirds of which occur in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Emerging work on the political ecology of air pollution examines how its noxious effects are unevenly distributed across social categories such as race and class. Geographers know much less about the social mechanisms through which air pollution and its risks and mitigation efforts are calculated, however. Situated within northern Thailand's haze crisis and its broader agrarian transitions, we employ ethnographic and geospatial methods to theorize air pollution as a boundary object. Throughout the region, uncertainty over the causes and constitution of air pollution and its flexible interpretation have driven the development of civil society sensor networks and the adoption of portable Air Quality Index monitors and hot spot locating apps. These increasingly widespread technologies not only democratize data but also play a growing role in shifting environmental narratives of seasonal air pollution. By homing in on the boundary work of air pollution, however, we argue that although new, more widely accessible modes of knowledge production can seemingly reduce uncertainty and shift environmental policy, they can also obscure the long-standing political-economic inequalities on which environmental problems are based. This article advances current debates at the nexus of political ecology and science and technology by demonstrating how particulate matter matters differently within and between social groups and the role of sociality in environmental change and the production of political space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how indigenous ontologies of gold, land, and rivers shape extractive practices, based on ethnographic field work in Ghana. I draw from political ecology to account for how invisible properties of the subsoil become entangled with social realities. In Ghana, understandings of the subsoil as more-than-material worlds inform rituals, taboos, and other protocols. Through such protocols, chiefs, spiritualists, and others emerge to govern subterranean access. This research shows that subterranean sovereignty extends beyond the state to include invisible forces of extractive landscapes, presenting ontological challenges to neoliberal land acquisition and gold privatization processes. The study also shows that mineral matters have resisting and intentional capacities that are constituted through resource making. Such resisting capacities contradict dominant views of resources, generating new understandings of resources as things that do not always become. The study suggests the need to attend to complicated forces of extraction and mining regulations. Such an approach is not merely epistemological intervention for addressing the subsoil's invisible properties but provides important insights to reimagine contemporary extractive practices as ontological struggles over the subsoil wherein indigenous persons produce and challenge claims to land through more-than-material relationships with the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Gran parte de los conflictos ambientales ocurridos en Colombia tienen relación con la extracción de bienes naturales como el petróleo, oro y carbón. Aunque el panorama pareciera tornarse brumoso, las respuestas sociales que emergen en este país y se extienden en los territorios frente al modelo entregan nuevos horizontes de sentido. En este artículo, se trata de visibilizar cómo diversas comunidades que están siendo afectadas por los proyectos mineros, por las rondas petroleras, por los proyectos hidroeléctricos o de agrocombustibles se levantan contra esta política, en Boyacá́, Santander, Guajira, Casanare, Meta, Putumayo, Caqueta, Cauca, Antioquia, Caldas, y muchos otros departamentos, donde la pobreza y el deterioro ambiental se han incrementado en la medida que se desarrollaban los proyectos mineros o petroleros. La confluencia de los diferentes sectores sociales, de organizaciones nacionales étnicas y campesinas en torno a un pliego unificado de negociación con el gobierno y ante todo para la defensa integral del territorio, alientan nuestros esfuerzos para intentar contribuir a la construcción del país digno y para la vida digna de quienes lo habitamos.

A globalização da suinocultura industrial, impulsionada pela modernização, tem gerado diversos conflitos socioambientais na América Latina, opondo cosmopolíticas e cosmotécnicas locais ao sistema produtor de mercadorias. Este artigo analisa a ecologia política das paisagens e lutas na suinocultura nos EUA, México, Brasil e Argentina. Nos EUA, a suinocultura industrial explora desproporcionalmente populações negras, submetendo-as à contaminação nas bordas das CAFOs, enquanto universaliza sua prática na América Latina. Os efeitos da consolidação da produção suinícola sobre o México nos anos 1990, o Brasil nos anos 2000 e a Argentina nos anos 2020 territorializaram disputas inerentes à integração produtiva, que subjuga ecologias e camponeses às corporações, externalizaram riscos sanitários oriundos da produção de gigantes como a China, etc. Estes lugares compõem um front em uma guerra de mundos (Krenak, 2017), cuja conflitualidade pode ser compreendida a partir das disputas socioecológicas do colapso da modernização e da natureza em torno da trincheira dos porcos, exigindo uma rede crítica e de resistência multiespécies para fortalecer as lutas territoriais.

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O desenvolvimento econômico em curso na borda oeste da metrópole fluminense gera impactos socioambientais para o trabalho da pesca artesanal. No entorno da Baía de Sepetiba, vem-se formando nas últimas décadas um eixo logístico-portuário, com empreendimentos que favorecem a produção e circulação de mercadorias para o mercado internacional. O funcionamento desses empreendimentos altera a materialidade do território, impactando diretamente na atividade da pesca artesanal. O presente artigo objetiva contribuir com o debate ambiental problematizando a racionalidade ambiental que vem se consolidando com o desenvolvimento sustentável. Como resultado, foi observado que os impactos socioambientais provocados pelo desenvolvimento alteraram as condições de territorialidade dos pescadores artesanais, provocando mudanças nas técnicas de pesca e nas relações sociais de trabalho. Esses trabalhadores estão enfrentando cada vez mais restrições no uso do território, resultando na perda dos recursos dos quais eles historicamente dependem há várias gerações.

Resumo Este artigo busca compreender a disputa entre diferentes visões de mundo por meio da análise das propostas de reordenamento socioambiental formulado para uma megametrópole. Moralidades ecocêntricas e antropocêntricas coexistem na estrutura do instrumento político de enfrentamento da emergência climática: Plano Municipal de Arborização Urbana da Cidade de São Paulo – Pmau (2019-2020). A perspectiva da teoria do convivialismo contemporâneo foi utilizada para lapidar as emergentes categorias do campo da ética climática: pluralidade decisória, naturalidade planejada e benefício temporal. O resultado demonstra que o conteúdo estrutural do Pmau ainda é frágil para o enfrentamento da emergência climática. Todavia, ressalta-se a relevância da inclusão da dimensão ética climática na avaliação e formulação eficaz de instrumentos públicos de mitigação das mudanças climáticas para regiões cosmopolitas.

Durante la segunda mitad de la década de 1990, el polo petroquímico de Bahía Blanca atravesó un proceso de privatización, extranjerización y ampliación por medio del cual, así como su volumen de producción se incrementó en un 450 %, el consumo de agua del complejo se multiplicó por más de tres veces. En el presente trabajo, nos proponemos trazar una ecología política de la apropiación y distribución de este bien común vital ante la expansión del polo industrial, como parte del re-ordenamiento neoliberal del territorio durante los años noventa. El enfoque teórico de la investigación es construido con las herramientas conceptuales forjadas al calor de la relación entablada entre la ecología política y la cuestión hídrica, conformando el campo de estudios de la ecología política del agua. Simultáneamente, la estrategia metodológica se centra en el análisis cualitativo de fuentes primarias y secundarias, en tanto la información relevada es organizada y sistematizada mediante un esquema narrativo-histórico, donde la historia se reúsa a ser definida por su referencia exclusiva al pasado (re)creándose, en cambio, como un modo de acceso a problemáticas sociales de persistente actualidad.

El presente artículo analiza cómo el conflicto político alrededor de la regulación ambiental sostenible por parte del Estado ha incidido en el diseño institucional de la Secretaría Técnica Nacional Ambiental (SETENA) y de las Evaluaciones de Impacto Ambiental (EIA), a través del estudio del proceso político de creación de la SETENA. La investigación se fundamentó en la ecología política como ‘macro-teoría’ y el institucionalismo histórico como teoría de alcance medio. Asimismo, se empleó un enfoque exploratorio y cualitativo. El análisis se realizó a través de técnicas de investigación como el análisis de coyuntura, las entrevistas semiestructuradas y el análisis documental. Finalmente, la investigación concluyó que, durante el periodo de estudio, se privilegió a ciertos grupos en cuanto a su participación en los espacios donde se ha definido el funcionamiento de la SETENA y el sistema de las EIA en Costa Rica. La manera en la que se diseñó esta institución y el sistema de EIA reflejan las tensiones propias de la definición del uso del medio ambiente y el desarrollo sostenible.

Desde 2013, la paralización de la pesca de arrastre de camarón en Costa Rica ha generado una importante conflictividad, entre un sector social que exige el cierre total de la pesquería por sus impactos socioambientales, y otro que aboga por su aprovechamiento sostenible en favor del desarrollo socioeconómico. Esta conflictividad ilustra cómo los océanos están siendo cada vez más problematizados como espacios de preocupación ambiental y, en general, sobre qué es un océano sostenible. Se analiza cómo los diversos actores involucrados en este conflicto, a través de prácticas discursivas, problematizan la degradación y el agotamiento de los sistemas marino-costeros en Costa Rica, y cómo este proceso genera una nueva reconfiguración de la gobernanza con consecuencias sociomateriales desiguales para sus habitantes. Se muestra cómo el discurso, que logró su institucionalización, posicionó sus ideas sobre la sostenibilidad del golfo de Nicoya, relacionadas con nuevos recursos económicamente rentables y sostenibles, al mismo tiempo que estigmatizó el recurso camarón y la pesca de arrastre como actividad productiva. Esta nueva reconfiguración ha tenido como principales perdedores a los actores más vulnerables: los pescadores asalariados y sus familias, profundizando las relaciones desiguales de clase y criminalizando sus medios de vida. Since 2013, the cessation of shrimp trawling in Costa Rica has produced a significant conflict between fishing-related actors supporting the total closure of the fishery due to its socio-environmental impacts, and others advocating for its sustainable use to foster socioeconomic development. This conflict illustrates how the oceans are increasingly contested as spaces of environmental concern and, more generally, about what is considered to be a sustainable ocean. Through discursive practices, we analyze how the various actors involved in this conflict contested the degradation and depletion of coastal environments in Costa Rica, and how this process reconfigured governance, with unequal socio-material consequences. It shows how the discourse that institutionalized these new forms of governance framed new economically profitable activities in the Gulf of Nicoya as sustainable, while at the same time positioning the shrimp resource and its trawling as a productive activity that was unsustainable. The reconfigured governance has most negatively affected the most vulnerable actors, namely salaried fishermen and their families, by exacerbating unequal class relations and criminalizing their livelihoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article synthesizes literatures on political ecology and racial capitalism to interrogate the historical development and contemporary conditions of extreme heat and farm labor in Georgia. Challenging the extent to which agriculture is considered "naturally" exceptional as an industry, I argue that ecological volatility has been discursively deployed to justify Georgia's racialized, devalued agricultural labor regime. Drawing on Du Bois's concept of "the shadow," I link early settler anxieties about extreme heat, violent nature, and the ideal settler-subject to current demands for immigrant farm labor through the H-2A temporary agricultural guestworker program. Although the exceptional "nature" of agriculture is overstated, the biophysical realities of extreme heat pose embodied risks for farmworkers who are treated as disposable in a constructed labor system dependent on exposure and vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under the neo-extractivist capitalist mode of production, borders are being dissolved without first disintegrating territories, cultures and worlds. Transformations accumulate in ecology and among peoples, both within national territorial boundaries and at borders between countries, as exemplified by the Venezuela-Brazil border. In the Amazon, this process involves the presence of capital and the state, with widespread diffusion of large projects for the appropriation of natural resources, forging a contradictory and conflict-ridden dynamic. Thus, the research aims to understand the private appropriation of natural resources, as well as the risks and conflicts produced by large projects that (de)structure borders. For this purpose, the research methodology is based on a political ecology approach, utilizing bibliographic and documentary data. For the case of the Mother Maria Indigenous Land (MMIL), data from the MapBiomas platform were used and processed with geoprocessing tools. The results showed that the surrounding area, or the internal border, of MMIL underwent an intense process of vegetation replacement, driven by large cattle ranching, road, and railway projects. Regarding the Yanomami Indigenous Land, the findings indicate the pressure from large mining and road projects, with the integration of an illegal gold extraction circuit that has resulted in environmental pollution, explicit violence, and health issues on both sides of the Brazil-Venezuela border. Therefore, the essay suggests alternatives such as the creation of buffer zones, strengthening of the demarcation of indigenous areas, and the reconstruction of environmental management at both national and Pan- Amazonian levels. Over a longer timeframe and with increased intensity in social activism, it points to the necessity of a structural shift away from the predatory economic model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A necessidade de conservar o que resta da biodiversidade do planeta tornou-se um consenso tácito ao longo dos últimos 40 anos, colocando a questão de forma definitiva no rol da agenda de problemas ambientais globais a serem socialmente resolvidos. Entretanto a decisão sobre os melhores caminhos para a conservação segue sendo alvo de intensas disputas políticas e a necessidade de compatibilização entre efeitos socioculturais e ecossistêmicos na implementação de projetos de conservação permanece atual. O presente artigo tem como intuito apresentar as bases conceituais da proposta da ‘conservação convivial’, identificando contribuições desta para a construção coletiva de alternativas realistas centradas nas dimensões político-econômicas do desafio de promover a diversidade da vida humana e não humana no planeta. Realizamos uma genealogia do contexto discursivo, histórico e atual, onde a proposta emergiu. Em primeiro lugar, situamos a emergência da conservação convivial no contexto da literatura das ‘transformações para sustentabilidade’, destacando especificamente a contribuição das ciências sociais críticas para a transformação da conservação da biodiversidade. Em seguida, apresentamos as características das principais tendências e linhas paradigmáticas que guiaram as ações e políticas para a conservação da biodiversidade historicamente no Brasil e no mundo, a saber, a ‘conservação fortaleza’, a ‘conservação participativa’ e a ‘conservação neoliberal’. Ademais, avaliamos o estado da arte das atualizações destas linhas no debate global atual, ao apresentar as características principais das tendências ‘neoprotecionista’ e da ‘nova conservação’, em seus distanciamentos e aproximações em relação à ‘conservação convivial’. Por fim, apresentamos os princípios da conservação convivial e as ações que materializam a proposta, em sua interface com o contexto brasileiro e latino-americano. Esperamos que esta apresentação sistemática e criteriosa da conservação convivial possa contribuir para a construção de ferramentas transdisciplinares e democráticas de pesquisa e intervenção em conservação da biodiversidade, especialmente no Brasil.

El presente artículo aborda la problemática de acceso al agua en una sección del Departamento Capital de la provincia de Mendoza y se enmarca dentro de la tesis de grado “El acceso al agua para consumo humano en La Favorita. Entre la ausencia estatal y la organización barrial” . Los interrogantes que guiaron la investigación fueron: ¿Cuáles son las formas actuales de aprovisionamiento que tiene La Favorita? Y ¿qué actores intervienen en el aprovisionamiento de agua? La investigación se encuentra enmarcada en la perspectiva de la geografía crítica y la ecología política. Para ello se utilizó una metodología cualitativa y herramientas de la investigación acción-participativa. Se pudo identificar que el problema de la falta de agua es una realidad de todos los barrios, independientemente de su forma de aprovisionamiento y que en muchos casos no se encuentra relacionada con la antigüedad o consolidación del mismo.

La crisis ambiental es el principal desafío del siglo XXI. Para la ecología política latinoamericana, se trata de una crisis civilizatoria, que se corresponde con la cultura occidental moderna. Es decir, una visión objetivada de la naturaleza que ha permitido la acumulación económica capitalista. En este marco, algunas corrientes ecologistas ven en las culturas no-occidentales (indígenas, orientales) una fuente de inspiración para una relación más saludable con el ambiente. No obstante, en el área de los estudios japoneses, publicaciones destacadas han elaborado una refutación absoluta al «mito de la armonía con la naturaleza» de Japón o al tópico del «noble oriental ecológico». Este ensayo parte de una perspectiva intercultural niquey para promover el potencial que tiene el estudio de los japonismos para la interpretación de la crisis ambiental. De esta forma, valoramos que la gramática discursiva japonista presenta nuevas sensibilidades sobre las naturalezas, que podrían problematizar el doble dualismo moderno. En este sentido, el giro ecológico en las ciencias sociales y humanidades ofrece una justificación epistemológica a los estudios de área, como análisis del eco-sistema-mundo en la era del capitaloceno. Así, el caso de las representaciones sobre Japón contiene un valor heurístico para investigar e imaginar otros mundos posibles.

A partir del análisis de dos experiencias colectivas del arte conceptual como fueron Tucumán Arde (1968) y la exposición Information en el MOMA (1970), este artículo pretende aportar desde la ecología política una nueva perspectiva al capítulo que la historia del arte dedica al conceptualismo. A pesar de las diferencias existentes entre los ecosistemas del arte en los que ambas experiencias participaban, las propuestas de sus artistas compartieron elementos críticos inspiradores para promover transformaciones en la disciplina de la historia del arte que respondan a la crisis ecosocial. Las conexiones con el azúcar en el caso de la experiencia argentina y la condición fósil de la institucionalidad artística del capitalismo avanzado en la que se inscribe Information constatan el carácter bifronte (Norte/ Sur) de la modernidad energética y sus conexiones con las experimentaciones artísticas de vanguardia. Los artistas autogestionados en torno a la experiencia tucumana ensayaron la conversión del arte en información sin pasar por los canales y espacios comunicativos del arte globalizado. Por su parte, algunos de los que participaron en la muestra neoyorkina se resistieron a la asimilación acrítica y espectacular de sus prácticas en la maquinaria institucional al servicio de la industria cultural, cómplice con el mercado de la guerra y la extracción fósil.

What might it mean to "unsettle" our disciplinary understanding of race, nature, and the environment? In this introduction to the 2023 Special Issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers—focused on Race, Nature, and the Environment—we reflect on the meaning and practice of unsettling in a time of climate crisis, toxic legacies, uneven development, state violence, mass extinctions, carceral logics, and racial injustices that shape—and are shaped by—the (re)production of nature. We note the ascendancy of critical scholarship on race and racialization in Anglo-American geography; its uneven diffusion and unmet challenges; and the unstoppable force of insurgent thinking, abolition geography, critical race theory, Black and Indigenous geographies, scholar activism, and environmental justice praxis in taking hold and transforming the discipline. The sixteen articles in this special issue embody different ways to "unsettle" disciplinary thought across the vibrant fields of political ecology and human–environment geography. We discuss how the articles collectively grapple with timely questions of land, water, territory, and place-making; render visible the spatial and socioecological reproduction of power and violence by capital and the state; and make space for the enduring politics of struggle on multiple registers—body, home, classroom, park, city, community, region, and world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Foreign land control and Afro-Panamanian women domestics are mutually constituted and embedded in tourism development in Panama. In this article, I center the racial and patriarchal logics of dispossession informing land control, a process that connects twenty-first-century residential tourism development to twentieth-century U.S. imperial formations in the making of the Panama Canal. My approach blends ethnographic research with historical data collection, newspapers, and development-related policy documents drawn across a variety of research sites in Panama, Spain, and North America. To begin, I briefly trace the contemporary context of tourism-induced land dispossession and the growing tenure insecurities for Afro-Panamanian communities living on the shores of the Panamanian Caribbean. Here I show how residential tourism development reproduces settler colonial landscapes. Further, I place in conversation the concepts of postcolonial intersectionality and cuerpo-territorio (Cabnal 2015) to illustrate how land control and domestic service are interconnected, punctuating how land is not the only site of colonial governance. I then historicize tourism in Panama through tracing the discursive narratives of imperial formations in the early period of U.S. empire and the construction of the Panama Canal. I trace elite travel narratives, newspapers, and memoirs to link the racialized labor regimes of the Canal to the domestic spaces of the Canal Zone. Finally, I argue that foreign land acquisitions and domestic service are inextricably entangled in tourism development across time and space in Panama. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a political ecology perspective, this article reports on the existing barriers to environmental governance in the Sierra de La Macarena. This type of governance, which refers to participatory and democratic management in environmental management, is implicit in the comprehensive rural reform agreed to in the 2016 peace process. However, the emerging violence following the signing of the agreements has meant that overlapping socio-environmental conflicts are deepening. The indiscriminate logging and burning of huge portions of the Amazonian forest by cattle ranching companies and the militarized response, by affecting mainly peasant communities, conflict has been the main expression. The article proposes analytical elements that allow not only to understand, but also to establish strategies that permit readjustment of the ecological management of the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This volume includes texts by authors who are explicitly inspired by the ecosophical pragmatics of Félix Guattari or who resonate with it. Published in a blend of English and Spanish, the thirteen articles were written by researchers, artists, art historians, philosophers, and schizoanalysts from Asia, America, and Europe. Their methods, ideas, and approaches highlight the ability of creative practice to map and engender complex, relational, singularized, transversal, and constitutive forms of life. Departing from bold analyses of capitalism’s mechanisms of subjection, their contributions describe how art is able to resist the repressive politics of dominant representations and mobilize processes of existential heterogenesis through molecular becomings. The origin of this publication is the IV International Symposium Mutant ecologies in contemporary art: machinic capitalism, molecular beings, and subsistence territories that took place online on November 25-26, 2020, which had as special guest the philosopher and art theorist Gerald Raunig. This special issue of the Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art builds on the project started with the book Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona) which investigated the conjunction of the ecological turn in contemporary art and Guattarian ecosophy to inquire about the role of art in light of the challenges posed by the environmental degradation and the socio-political crises of today. Thirty years after Guattari’s death and the publication of Chaosmosis (1992), this collection of texts testifies that Guattari’s clinical and critical analyses continue to infuse artistic, ecological, and political practice with a revolutionary potential.

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The relationship between environmental thinking and the Psychoanalysis thought by Freud still needs to be better thematized. It requires complex and interdisciplinary theoretical assumptions, not only from Environmental Sciences, but also from Humanities. This essay aims to point some reflections in this direction. It is understood that the environmental crisis, in its most emerging facet, climate change, should not be reduced to the perspective that the environment is in crisis, because what is really at stake is a way of being, a collective way of life, that is, the subjectivity of a civilization. In view of this, the environmental crisis unveils an unconscious process in the psychic economy, something that has been well appropriated by the capitalist way of life and that, by definition, has no proper, natural, immanent relationship with the world of nature.

Com as políticas nacional-desenvolvimentistas do pós-guerra e, sobretudo, depois do golpe militar de 1964, vieram os projetos grandiosos de ocupação e colonização da Amazônia. Vários dos cinejornais produzidos pela Agência Nacional apresentaram os planos do governo para desenvolver e “integrar a região à nação”, pregando o desmatamento em grande escala e promovendo um apagamento das histórias indígenas. Este artigo analisa três filmes brasileiros do período que se debruçaram sobre a Amazônia, incluindo o curtametragem documental de Glauber Rocha Amazonas, Amazonas (1965), o “documentário-ficção” de Jorge Bodanzky e Orlando Senna Iracema, uma transa amazônica (1974) e o documentário média-metragem Jari (1979), de Bodanzky e Wolf Gauer. Enquanto o filme de Glauber contribuiu para reforçar a imagem da Amazônia como um lugar vazio e subdesenvolvido, calcada num discurso teleológico, os filmes experimentais de Bodanzky dos anos 1970 contestaram o consenso desenvolvimentista e criaram outras formas de pensar a região, projetando a Amazônia não apenas no Brasil, mas em escala global.

Considerando a consecução de um modelo de desenvolvimento no campo brasileiro baseado na exploração dos bens naturais mediante expansão do agronegócio, o artigo busca compreender as ações de resistência dos movimentos socioterritoriais na defesa da agroecologia e contra o uso de agrotóxicos. Adotou-se como referencial teórico a perspectiva da ecologia política, contribuindo para evidenciar práticas e narrativas insurgentes e emancipatórias. As informações foram coletadas pelo banco de dados da Rede DATALUTA, as quais versam sobre as ações dos movimentos socioterritoriais veiculadas em portais de notícias entre os anos de 2020 e 2021. A partir da análise dessas notícias, evidenciou-se experiências que se articulam na luta contra os agrotóxicos e na resistência produtiva em defesa da agroecologia, por exemplo, fortalecendo a ecologia política da resistência no espaço rural brasileiro.

El conflicto entre la alianza indígena awajún-wampis y el Estado peruano, ocurrido en la provincia amazónica de Bagua (región de Amazonas, Perú) en 2009, marcó un hito en la historia reciente entre la Amazonía y los estados-naciones de América del Sur. A raíz de este enfrentamiento, que tuvo como principal motor al Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) entre Perú y los Estados Unidos, surgió en 2016 el documental When Two Worlds Collide. Esta coproducción peruana-británica cuenta la historia del conflicto denominado Baguazo a través del testimonio del líder indígena Alberto Pizango. Este ensayo examina a nivel ontológico los distintos elementos que componen a la colisión entre el paradigma amazónico jíbaro encarnado por la alianza awajún-wampis y discurso neocolonial empleado por las instituciones del estado-nación Perú para imponer una colonialidad del poder. Este choque pone en evidencia la incompatibilidad entre el proyecto de modernidad extractivista y la cosmovisión amazónica jíbara a través de nociones como la territorialidad, la constitución cosmológica de la naturaleza y la divergencia de ecologías políticas.

Resumo Este texto objetiva analisar o desenvolvimento da política ambiental urbana do município de Vila Velha-ES nos dois mandatos de gestão municipal entre 2009 e 2016. Busca, assim, verificar de que forma o município situado na Região Metropolitana da Grande Vitória-RMGV ocupa sua agenda política ambiental urbana numa ótica de sustentabilidade urbana com elementos de justiça ambiental e ecologia política, baseado no debate de racionalidade ambiental ecocêntrica. Tal análise se perfaz nos dois planos de gestão municipal e em entrevistas com autoridades que ocuparam cargos de relevância em Vila Velha-ES, para verificar a preocupação quanto àa maneira como a administração pública trata a ocupação desordenada do território e os conflitos sociais na distribuição dos impactos da degradação ambiental em seu ambiente urbano.

En este texto se presentan algunos avances de investigación sobre lo que definimos como ecología política de la microprivatización hídrica, a partir del acercamiento a algunos lugares de la periferia de la Ciudad de México. En ese sentido, se analiza con base en estadísticas oficiales y sistemas de información geográfica, cómo en la alcaldía Iztapalapa hay una correlación significativa entre la carencia del agua en la vivienda y la presencia de micropurificadoras/embotelladoras, las cuales usufructúan el sufrimiento hídrico de la población que vive en este lugar, que concentra el mayor número de hablantes de alguna lengua indígena. Finalmente, se define como éstos microactores privatizadores del agua, trazan los territorios de la escasez hídrica en la ciudad, particularmente en las zonas urbanas pobres

The reductionism promoted by modernity enabled a common sense as to what water was to be molded in the discrete form of H2O. Questioning that unique conception reproduced in studies of water resources and their governance, to the detriment of their multiple ontologies, was the starting point of this article. An analytical structure is proposed based on the reflections made by Political Ecology and the concept of the hydrosocial cycle. Unlike the naturalization of the hydrological cycle, it contemplates the multiple socionatural relations that constitute water. The aim of the proposed structure is to enable the apprehension of the hydrosocial cycle in time and space, in other words, its application in case studies. The reflection on a hybrid nature of water, duly considering the interactions between human and non-human agencies, provokes a critical look at modern reductionism on water, paying attention to the need to include other practices and epistemes, thereby contemplating a plural perspective on the issue.

Desde 2016, la comunidad indígena Shuar de Congüime en la Amazonía ecuatoriana tiene la concesión para extraer oro en su territorio mediante su empresa comunitaria Exploken Minera. Con su misión de una minería socio-ecológicamente responsable, invirtiendo los ingresos en la comunidad y sin usar químicos o metales pesados, este modelo único se contrasta con la extracción minera transnacional e ilegal en territorios indígenas. Con inspiración teórica y metodológica de la ecología política, justicia ambiental y el post-desarrollo, así como la conceptualización de utopías reales, este estudio etnográfico trata de las experiencias de gobernanza y justicia socioambiental de la empresa comunitaria y los dilemas, disputas y desafíos que emergen en la comunidad con esta nueva situación. El resultado indica que varios desafíos estructurales siguen sin resolverse. Si bien las experiencias de responsabilidad socioecológica de Exploken constituyen una opción ante el extractivismo destructivo y considerando la mejora de las condiciones de vida de muchas familias Shuar, surgieron nuevas tensiones sociales en Congüime, incluso transformaciones de las estructuras de poder social

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