Enfoques críticos en la comprensión de los problemas ambientales: la crisis del paradigma del desarrollo

Abstract

The environmental conflicts in Colombia represent, almost like no other, a field of questioning at the orders of war and capital. This article of reflection aims to point out the urgency of approaching its study from the perspective of criticism and resistance to better understand the historical configurations that explain the specific forms that they acquire today, and as a key to the constitution of other ways of conceiving the relationships of communities with nature as a creative bet for the construction of a stable and lasting peace in the current post-agreement context. Against the backdrop of what Foucault called biopolitics, the first part of this article shows how the normalizing character of contemporary capitalism reduces nature, the living and the non-living, to being a mere instrument of human progress; In the second part, the disruptive character of the conflicts that emerge, in the areas not co-opted by the capital and war machine, around the understanding, use, appropriation and exploitation of nature, the living and the I do not live; and in the third part, by way of conclusions, it is presented how the perspective of the critical and the resistant in the post-agreement context in Colombia challenges the study of environmental conflicts as the setting, par excellence, of the interpellation of persistent logic of accumulation and violence.