Political Ecology in Latin America. A field in construction

Abstract

The author argues that political ecology not only explores and acts in the field of power which is established within the conflict of interests for the appropriation of nature; but also makes it necessary to rethink politics from a new vision of relations between nature, culture and technology. He then places political ecology in the direction towards dissolution of power concentrated on a privileged minority, action cultivated by the social movements that take shelter under its foliage: a tree with branches that connect different languages, a ‘Babel’ where we can understand each other from our differences. To substantiate his claims, he covers the theoretical and practical components of his discipline.