Environment as a Political Object: Contributions from Political Culture for Building a Post-normal Political Science in Latin America

We discuss, based on a narrative theoretical review, the basis for the development of post-normal political culture studies for a better understanding of the environment as a political object in Latin America. To this end, we conduct a historical reconstruction of approaches to the environment as a...

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Autores: Vizcarra Castillo, Sofía Isabel, Capistrano, Daniel, Alves dos Santos, Mariana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/28415
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/debatesensociologia/article/view/28415
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Political culture
Anthropocene
Environment
Post-normal science
Cultura política
Antropoceno
Medioambiente
Ciencia posnormal
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Sumario:We discuss, based on a narrative theoretical review, the basis for the development of post-normal political culture studies for a better understanding of the environment as a political object in Latin America. To this end, we conduct a historical reconstruction of approaches to the environment as a political object and its arrival in the discipline of political science. Despite the absence a of a "green" subfield in the behaviourist tradition of political science, the environment has been the object of various political culture studies, mainly from the Global North. We review these studies and recognise their theoretical and methodological contributions but point out that they can only explain the phenomenon in Latin America to a limited extent. Likewise, we show how the characteristics of Latin American hybrid political culture and the lines of development of State-society relations in the region are explanatory elements to understand what we could call the paradox of the ecological imagination in the region.