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Capitalism Nature Socialism / A Journal of Socialist Ecology / Volume 5, (Number) 4 / Whole Number Twenty / December 1994
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Published January 1, 1994
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December 22, 2025
i think the only article i really enjoyed was the Philippines one (the reason i picked up this book). the cuban sustainable farming one was cool too.
excerpts from PH article:
“Indeed, environmentalism today has become fashionable. Far from becoming a radical concept that challenges modes of production, consumption and constitution, it is romanticized as a common ideal for all people, regardless of their positions in society. Very recently, the "common property/planet/future" concept has excited many in the environmental movements in the North. But one must ask whether the novelty of this idea is only relative to a perception conjured in the industrialized societies in response to the environmental consequences of extreme forms of Western individualism. In the colonized environments of the Third World/South, the culture of "common property" is already a way of life for two simple and related reasons: the culture of reciprocity that pervades their modes of constitution, and the culture of poverty which makes reciprocity a necessary strategy for survival. The romanticization of a "commonality" by a Western discourse of environmentalism might lead to the blurring of the distinction between a strategy to foster unity against environmental destruction and a strategy to force unity despite unequal power relations.
This is dangerous since environmentalism is robbed of its resistive Politics. This denies the class, gender, and racial roots of environmental destruction and displaces the culpability of capitalism, patriarchy, and
colonialism.”
“Environmentalism in this context becomes a vehicle that could define new subject positionalities by deploying counter-ideologies that challenge the objectifying practices of capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. Here, deep and socialist ecology, eco-feminism, and indigenous ecology could provide resistor-subjects the logic for their struggles.
In the final analysis, it is not the environmental NGOs from the city formed by reformed elites that must take the leadership in these movements, even as it must be recognized that reformed elites are also necessary to broaden the scope of the struggle. It must be the Lumads" from Mindanao, the proud people of the "Gran Cordilleras," 2 the kaingineros, '3 the landless peasants, the marginalized fisherfolk, the urban poor, the silenced and battered women — the marginalized sectors of society that should take the reins and articulate a kind of environmentalism that would embody the convergence of movements of resistance with movements to protect the environment.”
in short, laban bayan. the most marginalized in the Philippines must be taken care of first and foremost. they are the most affected
excerpts from PH article:
“Indeed, environmentalism today has become fashionable. Far from becoming a radical concept that challenges modes of production, consumption and constitution, it is romanticized as a common ideal for all people, regardless of their positions in society. Very recently, the "common property/planet/future" concept has excited many in the environmental movements in the North. But one must ask whether the novelty of this idea is only relative to a perception conjured in the industrialized societies in response to the environmental consequences of extreme forms of Western individualism. In the colonized environments of the Third World/South, the culture of "common property" is already a way of life for two simple and related reasons: the culture of reciprocity that pervades their modes of constitution, and the culture of poverty which makes reciprocity a necessary strategy for survival. The romanticization of a "commonality" by a Western discourse of environmentalism might lead to the blurring of the distinction between a strategy to foster unity against environmental destruction and a strategy to force unity despite unequal power relations.
This is dangerous since environmentalism is robbed of its resistive Politics. This denies the class, gender, and racial roots of environmental destruction and displaces the culpability of capitalism, patriarchy, and
colonialism.”
“Environmentalism in this context becomes a vehicle that could define new subject positionalities by deploying counter-ideologies that challenge the objectifying practices of capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. Here, deep and socialist ecology, eco-feminism, and indigenous ecology could provide resistor-subjects the logic for their struggles.
In the final analysis, it is not the environmental NGOs from the city formed by reformed elites that must take the leadership in these movements, even as it must be recognized that reformed elites are also necessary to broaden the scope of the struggle. It must be the Lumads" from Mindanao, the proud people of the "Gran Cordilleras," 2 the kaingineros, '3 the landless peasants, the marginalized fisherfolk, the urban poor, the silenced and battered women — the marginalized sectors of society that should take the reins and articulate a kind of environmentalism that would embody the convergence of movements of resistance with movements to protect the environment.”
in short, laban bayan. the most marginalized in the Philippines must be taken care of first and foremost. they are the most affected
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