Fabricar la crisis, gobernar la inestabilidad: la ecología política de la migración, el poder y el ecocidio
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https://doi.org/10.14422/mig.23582.004Palabras clave:
ecología política de la migración, régimen de crisis, capitalismo racial, gubernamentalidad, apartheid climático, ecocidio, (in)movilidadResumen
La movilidad humana no es una anomalía, sino una constante histórica que ha sido sistemáticamente gobernada, estratificada y racializada. Este artículo reconceptualiza la “crisis migratoria” no como un acontecimiento excepcional, sino como un régimen de crisis político-ecológica que fabrica la crisis, organiza la inestabilidad y legitima la violencia en y más allá de las fronteras. A partir de la ecología política, la ecología-mundo, la gubernamentalidad y los debates sobre capitalismo racial, desarrolla un marco analítico para examinar cómo la guerra, el extractivismo, el ecocidio y el apartheid climático producen entornos invivibles y regímenes estratificados de (in)movilidad. El argumento se operacionaliza mediante casos paradigmáticos de la Amazonía ecuatoriana, el delta del Níger, Gaza, la cuenca del Kafue y las arquitecturas del apartheid climático, mostrando cómo las infraestructuras jurídicas, económicas y humanitarias producen desposesión, inmovilización y movilidad selectiva. Al tratar la crisis como un régimen duradero más que como un episodio, el artículo vincula los espectáculos fronterizos con formas más lentas de violencia ambiental y colonial y esclarece cómo las vidas de las personas migrantes se gobiernan como una inestabilidad gestionada.
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