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Political ecology emerged as the field of power relations related to hierarchical and class structures in human–environment interactions, in the processes of production and the social appropriation of Nature, triggered by the environmental crisis. Political ecology is the social response to the oblivion of Nature by political economy, to political conflicts over ecological distribution and the social struggles for Nature. It is a field where the ontology of life encounters the techno-economic world order, where controversies over the relations between humanity and Nature grapple with the submission of cultures under capitalism and the global world-system. It involves the deconstruction and decolonization of knowledge, recognition of Nature and reinvention of life territories through power strategies within the geopolitics of sustainable development, for the construction of an environmental rationality.

Published in Leff, E. (2015), Political ecology: a Latin American perspective, in Leff, E., Floriani, D., and de Oliveira Cunha, L. H. (Eds.), dossier temático, Pensamento Ambiental Latino-americano: movimentos sociais e territórios de vida, Revista Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente No. 35, Programa de Pós-Graduação de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Universidade Federal do Paraná (Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For a discussion of Bookchin’s social ecology see Light 1998; for a critique of Bookchin’s ontological monism and dialectical naturalism, see Leff 1998a and Clark 2008. Cf. Chap. 4.

  2. 2.

    For an account of the Anglo-Saxon political ecology literature, see Peet and Watts 1996; Biersack and Greenberg 2006; Escobar 2010; Peet et al. 2010; Robbins 2012; for an overview of French contributions to political ecology, see Debeir et al. 1986; Ferry 1995; Latour 2004; Lipietz 1999; Whiteside 2002.

  3. 3.

    For a compendium of Latin American critical political thinking, see Marini, R.M. and dos Santos, T. (Coords.) (1999), El pensamiento social latinoamericano en el siglo XX, Caracas: UNESCO, 2 Vols.; Leff, E. (2012), Latin American environmental thinking: a heritage of knowledge for sustainability, Environmental ethics, Volume 34:4, Winter, pp. 431–450; Svampa, M. (2016), Debates latinoamericanos. Indianismo, desarrollo, dependencia y populismo, Buenos Aires y Bolivia: Edhasa/CEDIB.

  4. 4.

    For a compendium of Latin American critical social thinking see Marini and dos Santos 1999 and Svampa 2016.

  5. 5.

    For a critique of Bookchin’s ecological dialectics, see Chap. 4.

  6. 6.

    The meaning of the syntagm lack in being is knitted into the whole of Lacanian psychoanalytic discourse. Regarding my own appropriation and use of this concept, see Leff, E. (2020a), El conflicto de la vida, Mexico City: Siglo XXI Editores.

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Leff, E. (2021). Political Ecology: A Latin American Perspective. In: Political Ecology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63325-7_10

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