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- Title
POLİTİK EKOLOJİDE DOĞA-TOPLUM DİYALEKTİK BİRLİĞİNE KURAMSAL BİR BAKIŞ: TOPLUMSAL DOĞA ve DOĞANIN KAPİTALİST ÜRETİMİ TEZİ.
- Authors
ÖZBERK, Nejdet
- 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.
- Publication
Kastamonu University Journal of Economics & Administrative Sciences Faculty / Kastamonu Üniversitesi Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 3, p71
- ISSN
2147-6012
- Publication type
Article