Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of Capital
This paper examines theoretical issues surrounding how conservation efforts are reproduced within contemporary capitalism drawing on two cases: Brazil’s eastern Amazon and the forested regions of southern Chile. Drawing on a critical approach to analyze the data from the respective cases, we analyze...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2018-05-01
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| description | This paper examines theoretical issues surrounding how conservation efforts are reproduced within contemporary capitalism drawing on two cases: Brazil’s eastern Amazon and the forested regions of southern Chile. Drawing on a critical approach to analyze the data from the respective cases, we analyze the ways in which conservation efforts have been territorialized and loaded with symbolism and diversity, which express different ideological geographies. We argue that in the contemporary crisis of capitalism (which has been misunderstood by many observers as an environmental crisis), an array of new commodities have emerged. These processes of commodification have been marked by the commodification of “environmental services” and the creation of more private nature reserves creating value in new ways marked by scarcity and unique natural attractions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e1fdb3cc8d714290bd936fc9a25143eb2022-12-22T03:20:51ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede EcuadorÍconos1390-12492224-69832018-05-01226111513310.17141/iconos.61.2018.2984Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of CapitalLuis Fernando De Matheus0 Andrei Cornetta1 Universidad de La Frontera, ChileUniversidade Metropolitana de Santos, BrasilThis paper examines theoretical issues surrounding how conservation efforts are reproduced within contemporary capitalism drawing on two cases: Brazil’s eastern Amazon and the forested regions of southern Chile. Drawing on a critical approach to analyze the data from the respective cases, we analyze the ways in which conservation efforts have been territorialized and loaded with symbolism and diversity, which express different ideological geographies. We argue that in the contemporary crisis of capitalism (which has been misunderstood by many observers as an environmental crisis), an array of new commodities have emerged. These processes of commodification have been marked by the commodification of “environmental services” and the creation of more private nature reserves creating value in new ways marked by scarcity and unique natural attractions.http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/2984Capitalist accumulationthe production of naturegeographic ideologiesscarcityrarityBrazilian Amazonsouthern Chile |
| spellingShingle | Luis Fernando De Matheus Andrei Cornetta Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of Capital Íconos Capitalist accumulation the production of nature geographic ideologies scarcity rarity Brazilian Amazon southern Chile |
| title | Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of Capital |
| title_full | Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of Capital |
| title_fullStr | Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of Capital |
| title_full_unstemmed | Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of Capital |
| title_short | Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of Capital |
| title_sort | geographical ideologies and nature the re making of forests and the crisis of capital |
| topic | Capitalist accumulation the production of nature geographic ideologies scarcity rarity Brazilian Amazon southern Chile |
| url | http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/2984 |
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