THE EXTRACTIVE DYNAMICS OF CAPITAL AS A THREAT TO THE REPRODUCTION OF LIFE. SOME REFLECTIONS FROM POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND MARXISM AROUND THE NOTION OF "DEATH PROJECTS"

Authors

  • Francisco Javier Hernández Hernández Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/conflu.v21i2.35179

Keywords:

Metabolism. Political Ecology. Marxism. Life. Death.

Abstract

Over the last decade, the notion that classifies the different projects under the common label of “death projects” and, therefore, to the extractive industry as something antagonistic to the life, it has become relevant in both ways, in its use and its extension in almost all the countries of Latin America, mainly by communities, organizations and colectives that oppose to the minning, the fracking, the hydroelectric or some other extractive project. It is worth reconsidering the importance of the life-death dichotomy in the context of the struggles against the so-called “megaprojects” not only as a category of struggle or a politicized category, but also a key to the analysis of the socio-ecological repercussions that extractive projects cause on different forms of life. In this sense, the present work consist of a series of theoretical reflections from political ecology and Marxism about how the dynamics of capital radically transforms human and non-human life to make it susceptible to being subsumed to the logic of value re-functionalizing the matter-energy flows of living labor, the values of use and nature.

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Author Biography

Francisco Javier Hernández Hernández, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)

Graduado em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2007), Especialista em Direito Público pela Universidade Cândido Mendes (UCAM), Mestre em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), com foco em jurisdição, direitos humanos e políticas públicas. Atuou como bolsista de iniciação científica na Fundação Getúlio Vargas no período de 2003 a 2005. Atuou como advogado em empresas públicas e privadas na área consultiva, contratual e contenciosa. Atualmente é Chefe do Setor de Publicações do Centro Cultural Justiça Federal (CCJF) e Editor-Gerente das revistas LexCult: Revista Eletrônica do CCJF e Auditorium: Revista da Seção Judiciária do Rio de Janeiro. Atuou nas áreas da Administração Pública, Direito Constitucional, Políticas Públicas, Direito Administrativo, Direito Bancário e Direito Contratual.

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Published

2019-09-03

How to Cite

Hernández Hernández, F. J. (2019). THE EXTRACTIVE DYNAMICS OF CAPITAL AS A THREAT TO THE REPRODUCTION OF LIFE. SOME REFLECTIONS FROM POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND MARXISM AROUND THE NOTION OF "DEATH PROJECTS". Confluências | Interdisciplinary Review of Sociology and Law, 21(2), 209-225. https://doi.org/10.22409/conflu.v21i2.35179

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2019): Special Dossier - POR UNA SOCIOLOGÍA DESDE ABAJO

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Dossiê

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