Territorial Environmentalization in the Parana River Basin (Argentina): First Steps for a Foucaldian-Based Systematic Study 

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n53.04

Patricio Straccia
Universidad de Buenos Aires/Conicet, Argentina

Abstract:

This article aims to analyze the environmentalization process of the territory at the Paraná Delta (Argentina) from late 20^th century to our times. Following a data gathering and documentary analysis approach, we account for the set of devices that made possible to establish the Paraná Delta in environmental terms while arguing that this process embodies cementing a singular way of making land legible (the Paraná Delta as a natural space / a wetlands macrosystem worthy of preservation) along with denial, exclusion, or subjugation (as the case may be) of local populations. Thus, we analyze the increasing number of government technologies addressing wetland preservation and identify the events making their emergence possible. As a synthesis, we acknowledge a prevalence of sovereign governmentality environmental devices subsidiarily articulated with environmental governmentality disciplinary devices.

Keywords: environmental governmentality, wetlands, devices, readability, Paraná Delta, Parana River Basin.