The Plea for the Reapropriation of Nature: Towards the New Forms of Biotechnological Capital

https://doi.org/10.25100/sye.v0i25.3964

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Published: Jul 15, 2013
Issue: No. 25 (2013): Sociedad, economía y ambiente
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María Paz Valdebenito González Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile-Chile
Abstract
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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  • Biotechnology
  • Capital
  • Nature
  • Discourse
  • Developmentalism Environmentalist
Author Biography

María Paz Valdebenito González, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile-Chile

Investigador Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago de Chile
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Valdebenito González, M. P. (2013). The Plea for the Reapropriation of Nature: Towards the New Forms of Biotechnological Capital. Sociedad Y Economía, (25), 55–73. https://doi.org/10.25100/sye.v0i25.3964
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