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Political ecology, justice, and critical environmental education: perspectives of a counter-hegemonic alliance



Abstract

The purpose of this article is to raise a few arguments and make theoretical contributions to support the pertinence of the link between the so-called critical environmental education and the environmental justice movement due to the approach in how they define the causes of the current crisis, establish social struggle strategies, and defend the anti-capitalistic corporate project. This link is not only timely for the process of overcoming the destructive, alienated social relations of nature, but also underpins a perspective of the political ecology for which the determinations are material and of class. In the three movements - critical environmental education, environmental justice and political ecology - there is an ongoing argumentative process of ideological resignification of the environmental issue, acting as a counterpoint for the hegemonic interpretations of the common sense on the socioenvironmental phenomenon. They all have elements in common that form the amalgamation through which one can critique and, yet, operate politically on behalf of social transformation.

Keywords

political ecology,
social movements,
environmental justice,
critical environmental education,
environmentalism

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