Political Ecology: Deconstructing Capital And Territorializing Life

Preface......Page 6
Prologue......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Contents......Page 16
1: Unbinding the Sustainability of Life on Earth......Page 18
Bibliography......Page 34
Valuing Nature in Ecological Economics......Page 37
Ecological Distribution and Capitalization of Nature......Page 42
Political Ecology: Ontological Difference, Environmental Incommensurability and Social Conflict......Page 47
Reappropriating Nature: Cultural Diversity, Social Equity, and Environmental Justice......Page 52
Environmental Common Rights: Autonomy, Self-management and Democracy......Page 57
Bibliography......Page 62
3: Space, Place and Time: The Local Construction of an Environmental Rationality......Page 66
Bibliography......Page 83
Introduction......Page 86
Environmental Ethics and the Naturalization of Society......Page 87
Negating Natural Dialectics: Ecological Reductionism and Ontological Monism......Page 92
Dialectic and Totality. Ecology and Systems......Page 97
The Monist/Dualist Dilemma: Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Naturalism......Page 102
Dialectical Thinking, Political Ecology, and Environmental Rationality......Page 109
Bibliography......Page 115
Introduction......Page 118
Value Marxist Theory: Technical Reduction to Simple-Direct labor as a Quantum of Value......Page 119
The Indeterminacy due to Technological Change of Social Labor Time......Page 122
The Theory of Surplus Value and the Laws of Supply and Demand......Page 125
Surplus Value and the Organic Composition of Capital......Page 128
Capital Expanded Reproduction, Technological Innovation and Value Formation......Page 130
Intellectual Labor and Scientific-Technological Productive Forces......Page 137
The Law of Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit and the Revaluation of Value......Page 139
From Quantitative to Qualitative Theory of Value: The Capitalistic Appropriation of Nature......Page 142
Final Remarks......Page 152
Bibliography......Page 154
Value Theory and the Question of Peasants’ Poverty and Persistence......Page 156
The Poverty of Theory: Seasonality of Labor and the Historicity of Marxism......Page 158
Energy-Value, the “Simple Reproduction Squeeze” of Peasants’ Labor and the Unvalued Forces of Nature......Page 165
Peasants’ Persistence/Resistance/Rexistence: The Struggle for Life......Page 171
Bibliography......Page 177
The Ontological Grounds of Historical Materialism......Page 180
Bibliography......Page 220
8: De-growth or Deconstruction of the Economy: Towards a Sustainable World......Page 224
Bibliography......Page 233
Introduction......Page 235
Flows and Flaws in the Thermodynamics of Economics......Page 240
The Negentropic Potential: Photosynthesis and Primary Productivity of Biological Resources......Page 250
Bibliography......Page 258
The Emergence of Political Ecology......Page 262
Precursors of Political Ecology in Latin America......Page 269
Deconstruction/ Decolonization of Knowledge, Recognition of Nature and Reinvention of Life Territories......Page 274
Ecological Episteme and Political Ecology......Page 281
Political Ecology/ Environmental Epistemology......Page 286
Embodied/ Embedded Knowledge/ Savoirs......Page 291
Ecological Economics/ Political Ecology......Page 295
Denaturalization and Reconstruction of Nature......Page 298
Cultural Politics, Politics of Cultural Difference and Otherness......Page 300
Un-difference of Ecological Consciousness......Page 305
Ecofeminism and Gender: Phallocracy, Difference, and Otherness......Page 309
Ethics, Emancipation, Sustainability: Towards a Dialogue of Knowledge/ Savoirs......Page 317
Bibliography......Page 322
11: Power–Knowledge Relations in the Field of Political Ecology......Page 332
The Politicization of Ecology and the Epistemic Regionalism of Political Ecology......Page 341
Strands and Slopes in the Regional Geography of Political Ecology......Page 350
Bibliography......Page 365
Emergence of the Environmental Crisis: The Political-Epistemic Debate......Page 372
The Geopolitics of Sustainable Development......Page 376
Territories, Territorialities and Territorialization......Page 381
Existential Emancipation, Cultural Rexistence and Reinvention of Life-Territories......Page 384
The Rexistence of Indigenous Peoples: Tradition and Modernity......Page 387
The Rexistence of Ecosystem’s Peoples: The Case of the Seringueiros......Page 388
The Rexistence of Black Populations......Page 390
The Rexistence of Babassu Coconut-Breaker Women......Page 392
Fishing Reserves of Amazon River Dwellers......Page 394
Experiences of Community Forestry in Mexico......Page 397
Social Actors for the Construction of Sustainable Territories......Page 399
The Social Enownment of Nature and the Construction of Environmental Rationality......Page 407
Final Remarks......Page 409
Bibliography......Page 410
Epilogue......Page 414
Bibliography......Page 422
Index......Page 446