A Political Ecology of the South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501426 |
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| Authors | Juan Martinez-Alier, Juan Martínez‐alier, Lori Ann Thrupp |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 148-152 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x9201900108 |
| OpenAlex | W2001966105 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Enrique Leff's Ecologia y is a product of Third World radical ecology, representing views of leftist greens who are emerging as theorists and activists not only in Mexico but in many other countries of South (see, e.g., publication series State of India's Environment). book is shaped by two main influences: Marxism and Sachs's (1980) doctrine of ecodevelopment. It is Marxist in sense that it employs a historical-ecological and materialist perspective and links ecological themes with social struggles: Historical materialism provides basis for explaining process of articulation between nature and society as a form of incorporation of natural processes into production, accumulation, and reproduction of capital (1986: 32, our translation here and elsewhere). It integrates Marxist constructs with ecological principles in conceptualizing conditions of production (e.g., productivity of natural resources; see also O'Connor, 1988, among others). In his explanation of capitalist crises, for example, Leff emphasizes not contradiction between growth and exploitation of working class but constraints imposed on accumulation of by scarcity of resources and pollution: The relations of production that permit exploitation and appropriation of surplus labor produce surplus value, but conditions of productivity of natural resources and forms of property affect rate and differential distribution of that surplus value (1986: 37). Leff suggests that the imminent exhaustion of some resources . . . in process of production and consumption caused by capitalist development has reduced relative endowments of natural use values, raising their prices and increasing costs of production. In other words, crises of due to impairment of conditions of production are perceived only through
Appropriation · Biology · Capitalism · Contradiction · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Marxist philosophy · Natural resource · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Productivity · Reproduction · Sociology · Surplus value · Value (mathematics) · Ecology · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
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The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
Stone Age Economics
Theories of Value and Distribution since Adam Smith
Stratégies de l'écodéveloppement
The Tragedy of the Commons
The Choice of Agricultural Techniques in Underdeveloped Countries
Capitalism, nature, socialism a theoretical introduction∗
| Highly cited | No |
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