Ecologia Política

Uma Perspectiva Latino-Americana

Bibliographic Data

ID5280091
AuthorsEnrique Leff (0000-0002-9910-5608, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume27
Issue0
Publication date2013-06-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDesenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1518-952X • E-ISSN: 2176-9109
PublisherUniversidade Federal do Parana (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.5380/dma.v27i0.32510
OpenAlexW4234893108
LanguagePT
Citations received8

Political ecology explores the power relations between society and nature embedded in social interests, institutions, knowledge and imaginaries that weave the life-worlds of the people. It is the field where power strategies are deployed to deconstruct the unsustainable modern rationality and to mobilize social actions in the globalised world for the construction of a sustainable future in the entwining of material nature and symbolic culture. It is founded in emancipatory thinking and political ethics to renew the meaning and sustainability of life. Political ecology roots theoretical deconstruction in the political arena; beyond recognizing cultural diversity, traditional knowledge and indigenous peoples’ rights, environmentalism contests the hegemonic unification power of the market as the fate of human history. Political ecology in Latin America is operating a similar procedure as the one achieved by Marx with Hegelian idealism, turning the philosophy of post-modernity (Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida) on its own feet: territorializing thinking on being, difference and otherness in environmental rationality, rooted on the politics of cultural diversity, territories of difference and ethics of otherness. Decolonizing knowledge and legitimizing other knowledge/savoir/wisdom open alternative ways of understanding reality, nature, human life and social relations: different ways of constructing human life in the planet

Geography · Political science · Environmental Sustainability and Education

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