A THEORETICAL LOOK AT THE DIALECTICAL UNITY OF NATURE-SOCIETY IN POLITICAL ECOLOGY: SOCIALNATURE AND THE CAPITALIST PRODUCTION OF NATURE THESIS
Journal Title: Kastamonu Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2017, Vol 17, Issue 3
Abstract
Political ecology is an approach argues that nature and society are produced together in a political economy that includes humans and non-humans. Many theorists define the field in opposition to “apolitical” analyses of dominant human–environment relationships: analysis of ways in which social relationships with the environment are always political, always shaped by power relationships, and structured by and reproductive of social difference and inequality, have been major and distinguishing arguments in political ecology. Political ecology is normative in its approach, that seek not just to explain social and environmental processes, but to construct an alternative understanding of them, with an orientation toward social justice and radical politics. In western thought, there have been three major approaches to nature society relationships: technocentric, ecocentric and social. The first two see in a dualist way, as external and universal. This dualism, found in the technocentrism of environmental economics as well as in the radical ecocentrism of greens. Technocentrism, prioritise instrumental reason and sees the control of nature as a means to the human happiness. By contrast, ecocentrism place nature rather than humanity first. But the third, the social production of nature approach has distinct advantages over former conceptualisations. It denies an ontological separation between society (capitalism) and nature. Its claim is that in a capitalist world, nature is no longer natural, but instead, actively produced at a discursive and material level in the service of capital accumulation. The production of nature thesis suggests that we can best explain environmental questions and their solution through an understanding of the realities of capitalist political economy. In this article social nature approach and the production of nature thesis analysed critically.
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Nejdet ÖZBERK
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