Beyond the green new deal? Dependency, racial capitalism and struggles for a radical ecological transition in Argentina and Latin America

Féliz, Mariano; Melón, Daiana Elisa

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.10.010

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“…Despite the growth of the service and finance sectors, most Latin American countries, especially in South America, remain heavily dependent on the export of oil, minerals, and agriculture, which generates considerable economic and political instability and causes enormous socioenvironmental damage (Svampa, 2015). Meanwhile, new forms of dependency have emerged in the context of climate change and environmental crisis (Feliz and Melon 2023). The informal sector, which varies in size and composition across Latin America, has expanded during neoliberal capitalism, creating room for some creativity and autonomy but also generating considerable precarity and poverty (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2022; Millar, 2014).…”

Section: Decommodification Across the Centre And Peripherymentioning

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Uneven decommodification geographies: Exploring variation across the centre and periphery

Goodwin

2024

Environ Plan A

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The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed significant variation in the scale and form of decommodification across the capitalist world economy. To explore these uneven decommodification geographies this article develops a new conceptual framework that combines a critical Polanyian reading of decommodification with Latin American insights into centre-periphery structures and relations. The decommodification of land and labour in Britain (centre) and Ecuador (periphery) are then analysed from this conceptual perspective. The comparative analysis reveals significant variation in the scale and form of decommodification between the two countries during the pandemic. However, some important similarities are also observed, especially in relation to the (de) commodification of land. Here, the article draws on the corporate food regime literature to better understand similarities and differences between Britain and Ecuador. By revealing the uneven and shifting terrain of decommodification, this article makes a novel contribution to wider debates about the capitalist conjuncture and the intensifying crises of neoliberal capitalism.

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Section: Decommodification Across the Centre And Peripherymentioning

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Uneven decommodification geographies: Exploring variation across the centre and periphery

Goodwin

2024

Environ Plan A

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“…In countries of the Global South, especially in Latin America, vibrant grassroots movements and some scholars have proposed radical visions for environmental and climate justice. These visions inform and, in more recent iterations, are informed by GND proposals, and in some cases are identified as GNDs (Féliz & Melón, 2023). However, as yet, these appear to have made only limited inroads into professional politics.…”

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Green New Deals in comparative perspective

Green

2024

WIREs Climate Change

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In February 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio‐Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced into the US Congress a non‐binding resolution for a Green New Deal, with the aim to catalyze policies and programs to rapidly decarbonize the US economy while achieving wider progressive economic, social and environmental goals. This motion sparked widespread interest, in and beyond the US, in the potential for more ambitious and solidaristic climate policy under the banner of a Green New Deal (GND). This Overview, after introducing the history of the GND concept and exploring its dimensions in theory, provides a snapshot of GNDs proposed (or adopted/enacted) by politicians, candidates for political office, political parties and governments around the world in the period 2019–2022. Drawing on theories of comparative politics and comparative political economy, the Overview illuminates key patterns in the prevalence and content of this set of GND proposals, as well as their ideological underpinnings and implicit “theories of change.” Specifically, it ventures that: GND policies are more commonly proposed in high‐income, industrialized democracies; variation in GNDs' prevalence and content are associated with varieties of capitalism and electoral institutions; GND policies are more commonly proposed by left‐of‐center parties and candidates; and GNDs are being proposed at all levels of government, but their content is shaped by constraints on government powers. On the basis of this analysis, the concluding section proposes a detailed research agenda on GNDs, with an emphasis on comparative research.This article is categorized under: The Carbon Economy and Climate Mitigation > Benefits of Mitigation Policy and Governance > National Climate Change Policy Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance

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“…Land and water are reallocated to biofuels, dams, solar and wind farms, or transmission lines. Many of these projects take place within the territories of Indigenous peoples and traditional agrarian communities, exposing often‐racialised communities and workers to dispossession, exploitation, and health risks (Féliz and Melón 2023; Gooch 2022; Lorca et al. 2022; Ryser 2022).…”

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Green Transition's Necropolitics: Inequalities, Climate Extractivism, and Carbon Classes

Deberdt,

Le Billon

2024

Antipode

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This article theorises the processes of colonisation, wealth accumulation, and inequalities creation that the current paradigm of a resource‐hungry green transition enacts on the most vulnerable populations. We suggest that the extractivist logics and related technical fixes are leading to a “climate necropolitics”. In this, the socio‐economic system is increasingly defined by classes’ carbon exposure and consumption. Through the “green growth” of late capitalism, we theorise the advent of four carbon‐defined classes. Bounded by the access to climate tech capital and consumption of low‐carbon products, these include the ultra‐carbonised, decarbonised, still‐carbonised, and uncarbonised classes—with the first two acting as dominant classes and necropolitical agents sustained by the remaining lower classes. Inspired by Marxist scholars, we suggest that the current status quo is untenable and will result in class warfare during which coalitions between classes could reorient the “make live and let die” of the current green transition paradigm.

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Beyond the green new deal? Dependency, racial capitalism and struggles for a radical ecological transition in Argentina and Latin America

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

Uneven decommodification geographies: Exploring variation across the centre and periphery

Uneven decommodification geographies: Exploring variation across the centre and periphery

Green New Deals in comparative perspective

Green Transition's Necropolitics: Inequalities, Climate Extractivism, and Carbon Classes

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