Territoriality of Disease. Devastated Territories and Bodies Diseased by the Toxic Geography of Capital in the Neoliberal Era
Keywords:
living conditions; social inequality; environmental impact; environmental policy; environmental health.Synopsis
In a time marked by environmental devastation and the commodification of life, this book reveals, from the critique of political economy, that illness is not an isolated or merely biological fact, but the epidemiological correlate of devastated territories and expendable populations under the logic of capitalist accumulation in its specifically neoliberal phase. Within this framework, hyper-urbanized cities, contaminated agro-industrial fields, and environmental emergency zones configure a destructive capitalist technoscientific metabolism that articulates sick bodies and territories; and in the face of hegemonic discourses of sustainability and mercenary science, this work critically questions how capital organizes life and death in the 21st century, showing that the current socio-environmental and health crisis is not accidental, but the necessary historical expression of the logic of capitalist accumulation in its specifically neoliberal phase, an epochal pattern that organizes devastated territories and sickened bodies as a condition for its own reproduction and development.
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