THE TRAGEDY OF THE ENCLOSURES: AN ECO-FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE OF THE SALE OF OXYGEN AND PROSTITUTION IN COSTA RICA

 

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Autor: Isla, Ana
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data wydania:2006
Opis:This paper develops the premise that capitalism and patriarchy, which understandconservation in terms of enclosure, use it as another instrument of colonization of the ThirdWorld, women’s work, and nature. This paper connects two aspects of this process: the firstis the enclosure of the forest for as an oxygen generator/carbon sink; and the second is theenclosure of women’s labour through prostitution. As biodiversity and women’s non-wagelabour comprise the support system that local communities use for survival, selling oxygenand prostitution have become a war on subsistence and, consequently, an expansion ofpoverty. The author concludes that Costa Rica’s debt crisis provides grounds forrestructuring accumulation in the industrial world by selling oxygen/carbon sink capacity asthe technological solution to environmental destruction, and provides grounds for repairingmasculine anxiety, or “masculation,” by selling its women’s and children’s bodies as a resultof the inequality crisis
Kraj:Portal de Revistas UCR
Instytucja:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Język:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/51890
Dostęp online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/sociales/article/view/51890
Słowo kluczowe:ECOLOGY
CAPITALISM
MERCANTILISM
TRASNATIONALS COMPANY
NATURAL RESOURCES
OXYGEN
WOMEN
SEXUAL TRADE
RURAL SECTOR
ECOLOGÍA
CAPITALISMO
MERCANTILISMO
EMPRESAS TRASNACIONALES
RECURSOS NATURALES
OXIGENO
MUJERES
EXPLOTACIÓN SEXUAL
SECTOR RURAL