On the Necessity for a New Political Ecosystem

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Over the course of its history, political ecology has undergone an increasingly pronounced split between its ideal finalities and the means it uses to get there. Its forms of praxis and initial modes of organization, founded on activism, experimentation and diversified, networked forms of social embodiment, have broadly given way to normalized practices and institutionalized forms, such as the major international NGOs and the green parties. Faced with the new challenges of globalization and the multitude, political ecology bears witness to a lack of adaptation that could threaten its future. It must therefore offer itself a new political ecosystem, able to reactivate its resources and permit the establishment of dynamic links to neighboring political cultures and forms of social incarnation that do not necessarily belong to its original biotope. This overall restructuring implies the development of a dynamics of “deterritorialization-reterritorialization” in two dimensions: one spatial (the topos), involving the geographical levels to which its reflection, organization and intervention seek to apply themselves; and the other thematic (the topics), referring to specific fields of thought and of human activity which it must appropriate in order not to be confined to an environmental approach.