Politische Ökologie: nicht-deterministische, globale und materielle Dimensionen von Natur/Gesellschaft-Verhältnissen
Political ecology is a research field comprising studies with a critical perspective on human/nature-relations – critical in both a political and an epistemological sense. Fundamental questions of political ecology, here, are related to just and equal access to resources, their contributio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/71/341/2016/gh-71-341-2016.pdf |
| Summary: | Political ecology is a research field comprising studies with a critical
perspective on human/nature-relations – critical in both a political and an
epistemological sense. Fundamental questions of political ecology, here, are
related to just and equal access to resources, their contribution and
control, and to the regimes of regulation. The article specifies the
empirical and epistemological approaches within political ecology in the
last decades. It does not tell a linear history or a single story, because
political ecology emerges out of a continuous process of mutual inspirations
of academic debates and activist practices. The research strands in
political ecology operate with different ideas on how to conceptionalize
nature: as social product, technonature, hybrid, or as actant. These
conceptualisations are related to different approaches of neo-Marxist and
post-structural epistemology. This article discusses the present debate of
political ecology in two steps. After introducing a broader perspective of
what critique means in political ecology, it gives an account of the various
approaches for analysis of both, geographies and materialities of uneven
development. The early studies of political ecology explain
human/nature-relations as socially produced, related to a Marxist
understanding of historical materialism. In recent debates of political
ecology, this approach was confronted with a new materialist thinking of
more fluid interrelations between nature and non-nature; it also addresses
postcolonial studies' claim to decentralize the perspectives on history and
geography in order to understand new forms of connectivity of nature and
culture. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |