TY - JOUR

T1 - Social inequality and environmental injustice

T2 - The effects of global Consumption on the Global South

AU - Lastra Bravo, Javier Alfonso

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Globaler Konsum

KW - Soziale Ungleichheit

KW - Umweltgerechtigkeit

KW - Neo-Extraktivismus

KW - Globaler Süden

KW - Global Consumption

KW - Social Inequality

KW - Environmental Injustice

KW - Neoextractivism

KW - Global South

U2 - 10.46652/pacha.v4i11.188

DO - 10.46652/pacha.v4i11.188

M3 - Article

SP - 1

EP - 16

JO - Pacha. Revista de Estudios Contemporaneros del Sur Global

JF - Pacha. Revista de Estudios Contemporaneros del Sur Global

SN - 2697-3677

ER -