La captura corporativa del desarrollo sostenible y su transformación en un bloque histórico del "buen antropoceno"

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2019.2.31970

Palabras clave:

Desarrollo sostenible. El Antropoceno. Bloques históricos. Captura corporativa. Clase capitalista transnacional.

Resumen

Inspirado por el análisis de Antonio Gramsci sobre la hegemonía burguesa y su formulación teórica de bloques históricos, este artículo intenta explicar cómo el concepto y la práctica del desarrollo sostenible fueron captados por intereses corporativos en las últimas décadas del siglo XX y cómo se transformaron en lo que podemos nombrar un bloque histórico del ‘buen Antropoceno’ a principios del siglo XXI. Esta captura corporativa se teoriza en términos de la clase capitalista transnacional representada por las fracciones corporativas, estatistas/políticas, profesionales y consumistas que operan en todos los niveles de un mundo cada vez más globalizado. En este ensayo, propongo el término “narrativa antropocena crítica”, destacando los peligros planteados por el Antropoceno y la necesidad de un cambio radical de sistema que conlleve el fin del capitalismo y el estado jerárquico. La narrativa crítica del Antropoceno, por lo tanto, se opone radicalmente a la narrativa del “buen Antropoceno”, que, según sostengo, se inventó como una estrategia para defender el status quo socioeconómico por parte de los defensores del desarrollo sostenible y sus sucesores en la era del Antropoceno, a pesar de buenas intenciones de muchos ambientalistas que trabajan en corporaciones, gobiernos, ONG y organizaciones internacionales. El texto concluye con algunas sugerencias sobre cómo enfrentar las posibles amenazas existenciales para la supervivencia de la humanidad.

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Biografía del autor/a

Leslie Sklair, London University, London School of Economics (London, Great Britain).

Emeritus professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London (London, Great Britain).

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2019-08-09

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Sklair, L. (2019). La captura corporativa del desarrollo sostenible y su transformación en un bloque histórico del "buen antropoceno". Civitas: Revista De Ciências Sociais, 19(2), 296–314. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2019.2.31970

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¿Desarrollo sostenible? Conflictos sociales y ambientales