Capital against nature: accumulation by dispossession and externalization in the Mar Menor

Soto Carrasco, David

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Capital against nature: accumulation by dispossession and externalization in the Mar Menor

dc.contributor.author	Soto Carrasco, David
dc.contributor.department	Filosofía
dc.date.accessioned	2025-02-20T11:36:20Z
dc.date.available	2025-02-20T11:36:20Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	This chapter examines the ecological and social crisis unfolding in the Mar Menor, a coastal lagoon in Spain’s Murcia Region, largely stemming from intensive agricultural practices and the agro-extractivist sector. The intricate relationship between neoliberal capitalism, territory, and the Mar Menor crisis is explored, drawing on Jason W. Moore’s theory of the Four Cheaps. This theory emphasizes the exploitation of labor-power, food, raw materials, and energy as foundational to capitalist accumulation. Kohei Saito’s ecosocialist framework is introduced to bridge the economy-ecology divide and foster a more symbiotic relationship between society, nature, and the territorial dynamics at play. Saito highlights capitalism’s triple externalization: environmental costs, social costs, and temporal factors. Additionally, inspired by cultural critic Mark Fisher, a fourth form of externalization is proposed: internalization, associated with the impacts of externalization on the mental health of individuals. This perspective would link pollution and resource depletion to heightened stress and anxiety, privatizing costs onto affected individuals. Ultimately, this chapter underscores the Mar Menor’s status as a “sacrifice zone”. This situation illustrates how the capitalist logic of accumulation promotes excessive resource exploitation, externalizing costs and generating negative impacts on the ecosystem and local communities. It reveals environmental injustice and the prioritization of private profit over community well-being.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	14	es
dc.identifier.isbn	978‑1‑032‑78696‑4
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/150709
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group	es
dc.relation	This publication is part of the R&D&i projects “Climate crisis, mental health and wellbeing in the Anthropocene. An approach from historical ontology (ANT‑mentalhealth)” (PID2021‑124477OA‑I00) and “Study and criticism of Italian Theory” (PID2021‑123958N), funded by CIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and ERDF “A way of making Europe”.	es
dc.relation.ispartof	The History of Environmental Degradation in Mar Menor: a Case Study. Edited by Juan Manuel Zaragoza, David Soto and Malena Cantero, p.p.175-188
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.routledge.com/The-History-of-Environmental-Degradation-in-Mar-Menor-A-Case-Study/Zaragoza-Soto-Cantero/p/book/9781032786964?srsltid=AfmBOorYbs0MubMeZ4TE6DZV075oYdjXN5oWm03MShBVslDIJQBlhT99	es
dc.relation.requires	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003489078-15	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess	es
dc.subject	Crisis ecosocial	es
dc.subject	Mar Menor	es
dc.subject	Acumulación por desposesión	es
dc.subject	Externalización	es
dc.title	Capital against nature: accumulation by dispossession and externalization in the Mar Menor	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es