On systemic chaos and civilization crisis: current territorial tensions
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https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_27-2_1Keywords:
Systemic chaos, metabolic disruption, anthropocene/capitalocene, territory-territoriality-territorialization.Abstract
In this article we reflect on the current historical-civilizing times we are experiencing. It is a historic period in crisis, but a crisis that goes beyond that of capitalism as a civilizing crisis. It is a period of systemic chaos or crisis of a pattern of power/knowledge that has governed us for 500 years. Therefore, a long-term crisis. The foundations which underpinned this pattern of power/knowledge - domination of nature and all social groups that are regarded as similar to nature - the indigenous/savages, blacks, women, those who work with their hands, whether proletarians or peasants – are beginning to be openly questioned by those who, despite fighting for more than 500 years, only now after 1950/1960 are finding they have a voice. Thus, they are reinventing their relationship with nature and culture, with the concept of denaturalizing territory. Thus, faced with one of the most intense expropriation processes that humanity has ever lived through, as in the last 50 years, other theoretical-political references emerge, signalling that we are facing other horizons that are not eurocentric in direction.
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