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Desde el siglo pasado, los problemas medioambientales forman parte de los espacios de discusión de grupos ecologistas y de diversos movimientos socia-les. Sin embargo, en nuestro tiempo, la perspectiva ecológica no es suficiente para examinar la interrelación ontológica existente entre el hombre y la naturaleza, ya que se evidencia que la crisis y el deterioro medioambiental están determinados por un modelo económico, político y epistemológico, basado en la racionalidad eurocéntrica moderna, la cual cosifica la naturaleza, negándole todo tipo de derecho. La modernidad da apertura a la colonialidad de la naturaleza; ve en la misma un instrumento útil para la explotación y el avance social, dejando rezaga-da la visión ancestral, el sentir de la tierra y la el buen vivir como necesarios para un genuino desarrollo sostenible. Por esta razón, el artículo analiza las categorías de colonialidad de la naturaleza, desarrollo sostenible y buen vivir, frente a las pretensiones de la lógica moderna de colonizar todos los elementos de la vida misma. No se pretende que el trabajo sea conclusivo; por el contrario, es una perspectiva más que se suma a esta prolífica discusión ; Since the last century, environmental problems have been part of the discus-sion spaces of environmental groups and various social movements. However, in our time, the ecological perspective is not enough to examine the existing ontological interrelation between man and nature, since it is evident that the crisis and environmental deterioration are determined by an economic, political and epistemological model, based on modern Eurocentric rationality, which rei-fies nature, denying it all kinds of rights. Modernity opens up the coloniality of nature; he sees in it a useful instrument for exploitation and social advancement, leaving behind the ancestral vision, the feeling of the land and the need for good living as necessary for genuine sustainable development. For this reason, the article analyzes the categories of coloniality of nature, sustainable ...

Desde el siglo pasado, los problemas medioambientales forman parte de los espacios de discusión de grupos ecologistas y de diversos movimientos sociales. Sin embargo, en nuestro tiempo, la perspectiva ecológica no es suficiente para examinar la interrelación ontológica existente entre el hombre y la naturaleza, ya que se evidencia que la crisis y el deterioro medioambiental están determinados por un modelo económico, político y epistemológico, basado en la racionalidad eurocéntrica moderna, la cual cosifica la naturaleza, negándole todo tipo de derecho. La modernidad da apertura a la colonialidad de la naturaleza; ve en la misma un instrumento útil para la explotación y el avance social, dejando rezagada la visión ancestral, el sentir de la tierra y la el buen vivir como necesarios para un genuino desarrollo sostenible. Por esta razón, el artículo analiza las categorías de colonialidad de la naturaleza, desarrollo sostenible y buen vivir, frente a las pretensiones de la lógica moderna de colonizar todos los elementos de la vida misma. No se pretende que el trabajo sea conclusivo; por el contrario, es una perspectiva más que se suma a esta prolífica discusión. ; Since the last century, environmental problems have been part of the discussion spaces of environmental groups and various social movements. However, in our time, the ecological perspective is not enough to examine the existing ontological interrelation between man and nature, since it is evident that the crisis and environmental deterioration are determined by an economic, political and epistemological model, based on modern Eurocentric rationality, which reifies nature, denying it all kinds of rights. Modernity opens up the coloniality of nature; he sees in it a useful instrument for exploitation and social advancement, leaving behind the ancestral vision, the feeling of the land and the need for good living as necessary for genuine sustainable development. For this reason, the article analyzes the categories of coloniality of nature, sustainable development and good living, against the claims of modern logic to colonize all the elements of life itself. The work is not intended to be conclusive; on the contrary, it is one more voice that joins this prolific discussion.

At this particular historical conjuncture, human-made crises—from ecological disasters such as the BP oil spill or the Fukushima nuclear accident, to food shortages and national economic calamities—have rightly gained attention, and the prospect of real limits to consumption seem ever present on the horizon. According to David Harvey, such "[c]rises are moments of paradox and possibility out of which all manner of alternatives . . . can spring." It is these moments, or encounters, of paradox and possibility that I address in this article. I specifically consider novel ecological political articulations that have emerged out of indigenous movements that unmask the material foundations of world history and demonstrate cracks in a dominant ideology that commoditizes all matter—living and otherwise.

"This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North. CTC expresses the emergence and historical actuality of a set of intellectual fields aimed at denouncing domination and promoting emancipatory ideas at the borders of colonial capitalism. The book argues that the actuality of the CTC relies on the importance of valuing theoretical and methodological pluralism in the context of the necessary redefinition of the directions of global society. It reveals a plural reflection of scientific, moral, and aesthetic character in different areas of former planetary colonisation such as Asia, Africa and America but also on the borders of Europe. This book is aimed at researchers and students in the social sciences as well as in interdisciplinary studies. It is attractive to those who are interested in the plural development of theoretical criticism outside the European universe and who seek to understand how capitalist power has metamorphosed with planetary coloniality. Considering this book implies important reflections on topics such as development, modernity, tradition, imperialism, dependency and democracy, it is interesting to specialists in development issues, international relations and policy makers"--

The expansion of sugarcane monoculture for the production of agrofuels since the early 2000s has caused territorial reconfigurations in the Brazilian countryside. This territorial reordering represents both a lucrative way of employing idle capital and the geographical expansion of capital domains. In the process, new markets are created and leveraged by discourses of environmental conservation while air, soil, and water are depredated and indigenous people, peasants, and quilombolas are dispossessed and dragged into new circuits of accumulation. Linked to the continuous search for new fronts of accumulation and the increasing commodification of nature, Brazilian agrofuel production may be understood as an expression of the logic of coloniality. A expansão da monocultura açucareira com vistas a produção de agro combustíveis tem causado reconfigurações territoriais na área rural brasileira. Implementada desde o princípio dos anos 2000, essa reordenação territorial apresenta ao mesmo tempo o emprego lucrativo do capital ocioso e a expansão geográfica do domínio do capital. Nesse processo, novos mercados são criados e alavancados por discursos ambientalistas, enquanto ar, solo e água são devastados. Demais, a população indígena, os campesinos e os quilombolas sofrem destituição e são forçados a integrar novos circuitos de acumulação. Relacionados à busca de novas frentes de acumulação e à comercialização da natureza, a produção brasileira de agro combustível pode ser compreendida como expressão da lógica da colonialidade.

This book scrutinises the practice of humanitarian intervention to explore the extent to which racism and heteronormativity, rooted in colonial understandings of time and space, are enacted through the UK's responses, failed responses, and non-responses to atrocity crimes.

"The Coloniality of the Scientific Anthropocene" published on by Oxford University Press.

Contemporary and market-based conservation policies, constructed as rational, neutral and apolitical, are being pursued around the world in the aim of staving off multiple, unfolding and overlapping environmental crises. However, the substantial body of research that examines the dominance of neoliberal environmental policies has paid relatively little attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary and market-based conservation policies enacted in the Global South. It is only recently that critical scholars have begun to demonstrate how colonial legacies interact with market-based conservation policies in ways that increase their risk of failure, deepen on-the-ground inequalities and cement global injustices. In this article, we take further this emerging body of work by showing how contemporary,market-based conservation initiatives extend the temporalities and geographies of colonialism, undergird long-standing hegemonies and perpetuate exploitative power relations in the governing of nature-society relations, particularly in the Global South. Reflecting on ethnographic insights from six different field sites across countries of the Global South, we argue that decolonization is an important and necessary step in confronting some of the major weaknesses of contemporary conservation and the wider socio-ecological crisis itself. We conclude by briefly outlining what decolonizing conservation might entail.

This translation of Rita Segato's seminal book La crítica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on the coloniality of power as formulated by the Peruvian thinker Anibal Quijano. Segato begins with an overview of Quijano's conceptual framework, emphasizing the power and richness of his theory and its relevance to a range of fields. Each of the seven subsequent chapters present scenarios in which a persistent colonial structure or form of subjectivity can be identified. These essays address urgent issues of gender, sexuality, race and racism, and indigenous forms of life. They set the decolonial perspective to work, and are connected by two central preoccupations: the critical analysis of coloniality and the effort to reimagine anthropology as "anthropology on demand," answerable and useful to the communities previously regarded as the "objects" of ethnographic thought. A Critique of the Coloniality makes an important and original contribution to the understanding of colonial and decolonial processes, drawing the author's experience of feminist and antiracist issues and struggles for indigenous and human rights. This book will appeal to students and scholars working in anthropology, Latin American studies, political theory, feminist and gender studies, indigenous studies, and anticolonial, post-colonial, and decolonial thought.