The Plea for the Reapropriation of Nature: Towards the New Forms of Biotechnological Capital
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2013-07-15
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Biotechnology, Capital, Nature, Discourse, Developmentalism EnvironmentalistMain Article Content
Abstract: This paper analyzes the relation between nature and society within the frameworkof the new biotechnological productions, through a critical assessment of modernbiotechnological interventions into Nature. Biotechnology allows a reinvention ofthe Capitalist System in the context of a strong Environmental Globalization and the requirementof a longed ecological balance. This reinvention emerges from a re-appropriationof Nature based in scientific knowledge and a symbolic operation which, throughthe discourse of sustainable development, reshapes the concept of nature to meet therequirements of standardization, control and capitalization, under market and capitalneeds.
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Valdebenito González MP. The Plea for the Reapropriation of Nature: Towards the New Forms of Biotechnological Capital. soc.eco [Internet]. 2013 Jul. 15 [cited 2026 Jan. 2];(25):55-73. Available from: https://sociedadyeconomia.univalle.edu.co/index.php/sociedad_y_economia/article/view/3964
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