Social inequality and environmental injustice

The effects of global Consumption on the Global South

authored by: Javier Alfonso Lastra Bravo
Abstract: This article focuses on analyzing the effects of Global Consumption on the territories of the Global South and how this process, the product of a global hegemonic crisis, generates inequalities and environmen-tal injustices in the territories affected by these consumption and production patterns. For this purpose, empirical examples from the Global South are analyzed, paying attention to the socio-ecological tensions produced by this phenomenon, linking the concept of neo-extractivism as an analytical category. Through this analysis, we also intend to show socio-historical structures of global inequalities and the effects they generate in historically displaced territories. The article concludes by pointing out that inequality is a glo-bal problem, not only because of its geographical scope, but also because of its interrelationships between the North and the South, which are strengthened and modified by global production networks and power asymmetries. Finally, it was pointed out that the current economic model, the production processes and the forms of consumption have multiplied the inequalities from the North to the South, revealing processes of deepening the structural dependence of the “peripheries” of the global production networks and the divi-sion labor international. In this way, the Global North thus controls production processes in other regions of the world, reinforcing the dynamics of appropriation of income, work, resources, and capital.
Organisation(s): Sociology Department
Type: Article
Journal: Pacha. Revista de Estudios Contemporaneros del Sur Global
Pages: 1-16
ISSN: 2697-3677
Publication date: 2023
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
Research Area (based on ÖFOS 2012): Cultural anthropology, Development policy
Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.46652/pacha.v4i11.188 (Access: Open)

BibTeX

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title = "Social inequality and environmental injustice: The effects of global Consumption on the Global South",
abstract = "This article focuses on analyzing the effects of Global Consumption on the territories of the Global South and how this process, the product of a global hegemonic crisis, generates inequalities and environmen-tal injustices in the territories affected by these consumption and production patterns. For this purpose, empirical examples from the Global South are analyzed, paying attention to the socio-ecological tensions produced by this phenomenon, linking the concept of neo-extractivism as an analytical category. Through this analysis, we also intend to show socio-historical structures of global inequalities and the effects they generate in historically displaced territories. The article concludes by pointing out that inequality is a glo-bal problem, not only because of its geographical scope, but also because of its interrelationships between the North and the South, which are strengthened and modified by global production networks and power asymmetries. Finally, it was pointed out that the current economic model, the production processes and the forms of consumption have multiplied the inequalities from the North to the South, revealing processes of deepening the structural dependence of the “peripheries” of the global production networks and the divi-sion labor international. In this way, the Global North thus controls production processes in other regions of the world, reinforcing the dynamics of appropriation of income, work, resources, and capital.",
keywords = "Globaler Konsum, Soziale Ungleichheit, Umweltgerechtigkeit, Neo-Extraktivismus, Globaler S{\"u}den, Global Consumption, Social Inequality, Environmental Injustice, Neoextractivism, Global South",
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year = "2023",
doi = "10.46652/pacha.v4i11.188",
language = "English",
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journal = "Pacha. Revista de Estudios Contemporaneros del Sur Global",
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