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Political Ecology and Bioregionalism: New Directions for Geography and Resource-Use Management

정치생태학과 생물지역주의 - 지리학과 자원이용관리를 위한 새로운 방향 -

  • Published : 2004.12.01
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Abstract

This paper provides an overview of political ecology, a body of theory that focuses on the links between political and economic inequality on the one hand, and environmental degradation on the other. Adopting a tripartite classification scheme that identifies three political ecology traditions -'classical', 'democratic' and 'poststructuralist'- the discussion shows the need for a move within the poststructuralist tradition away from a narrow and quasi-idealistic focus on discourse to a more robust philosophical engagement with ontological and epistemological issues grounded in Gilles Deleuze's development of Nietzschean materialism. From there. the author draws on numerous examples from Canada, and surveys the available literature on 'bioregionalism', a relatively new intellectual tradition evolved from the North American environmental social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. The so-called 'bioregional approach' stresses that administrative units need to reflect (rather than transect) eco-geographical and cultural features. Bioregionalism is described and assessed as a potential pragmatic research framework for geographers and other planners wishing to respond proactively to the call for a revamped, poststructuralist political ecology. The paper concludes that a bioregional approach to political ecology avoids the weaknesses identified by certain critics, provides scope for consideration of fundamental philosophical ideas, and as such, represents a practical development of a poststructuralist political ecology.

이 논문은 정치생태학이론을 정치적 및 경제적 불균등 간의 연계측면과 환경파괴에 초점을 맞춘 측면을 동시에 개략적으로 검토한 것이다. 본 논문에서는 정치생태학 전통을 '고전적', '민주적', '탈 구조주의적'으로 나누는 3가지 분류 도식을 채택하였다. 탈 구조주의 전통은 협의의 준(準)이상적인 담론으로부터 존재론적이고 인식론적인 이슈에 더 강한 철학적 참여로 나아갈 필요가 있다. 후자의 견해는 니체의 유물론에서 발전된 Gilles Deleuze의 것에 입각한다. 이러한 배경에서. 본 논문은 1970 및 80년대에 북미의 환경운동으로부터 발달된 비교적 새로운 지적 전통인 '생물지역주의'에 관한 문헌들을 검토한다. 또한 이른바 '생물지역적 접근'은 행정단위는 생태-지리적 및 문화적 현상을 갈라놓기보다는 반영할 필요가 있다. 생물지역주의는 탈 구조주의적 정치생태학의 수정 필요성에 동조하는 지리학자와 계획가들에게 잠재적인 실용적 연구의 개념적 틀로서 평가된다. 결론적으로 정치생태학에 대한 생물지역적 접근은 비평에 의해 확인된 약점들을 회피하면서. 기초적인 철학적 관념의 고려사항의 범위론 제공하고. 그로부터 탈 구조주의적 정치생태학의 실용적 발달을 이룰 수 있다.

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