NATUREZA, SOCIEDADE E DESENVOLVIMENTO: Da crise metabólica do capital às formações etnoeconômicas de resistência

Abstract

Development models have fulfilled their role in the logic of expansion and accumulation of capi- talist production mode on a global scale. In the peripheral tissue, the performance of these processes immediately affects the structural reconfiguration and social fabric aiming at optimizing mecha- nisms for expropriation of the productive surplus, and gradually regarding the articulation and im- plementation important cultural policies and patterns for the functioning of the material dynamics of the hegemonic system, totally clashing from local realities. The present study is a critique of the development subordinated to the sign of capital that proves to be shapeless, unstable and contra- dictorily dependent on the asymmetries itself that causes in the material order and in the social fabric and which, when serving as an instrument of conducting the sociometabolic reproductive order of the governing entity, incites transformations that violently affect conditions of existence, especially among the poorest and most marginalized populations that lose access to the material means of production of the material life and which abruptly have their conditions of social exist- ence implicitly reduced to the mere highly exploitable cheap workforce and consumption unit. Starting from a cross-sectional reading between the theoretical and methodological domains of economics, ecology and anthropology, an investigation is proposed here on how to develop as a tool subservient to such an order of sociometabolic reproduction of the capital has altered the con- ditions of existence and the very social production of nature among populations living on the pe- riphery of the system. In addition to a contextualization about the process of historical formation of development until its appropriation by the capitalist mode of production and its manifestation in the peripheral context, the study also focused on the impact caused by the phenomenon on rela- tionships social production of material life and in the social construction of nature itself between cultures and populations situated on the sidelines of such events, which paves the way for specu- lation about collective resistance organizations guided by a so-called ethno-economics – local forms of use and appropriation of common resources defined by unique production, consumption and distribution practices and rationalities integrated with a certain ecosystem dynamics.