Resumen

STRACCIA, Patricio H  y  ISLA RAFFAELE, María L. Laws on minimum standards for environmental protection: Glaciers, wetlands and the emergence of the political character of de-politicized categories. Ecol. austral [online]. 2020, vol.30, n.1, pp.85-98. ISSN 1667-782X.

In this article we analyze the ways in which certain categories are re-politicized in the processes of formulation of laws on minimum standards for environmental protection in Argentina. To do so, we focus our study on two specific environmental regulations: the “Glaciers Law” and the “Wetlands Law”. We resume the perspectives that highlight the fact that any conservation process is not only ecological, but also political, and through a documentary analysis supplemented with ethnographic interviews and instances of participant observation we show how the political nature of diverse categories linked to the domain of ‘the natural’, such as ‘glacier’, ‘periglacial environment’ or ‘wetland’, emerge in the processes of formulation of environmental regulations. If the post-political condition aims to empty the political arena of any disagreement or radical critique, we agree with those who maintain that the reemergence of the political character of this type of category demonstrates the omnipresence of power relations and their immanence in a political field. And we argue that it constitutes a necessary first step in order to think about alternatives that could modify the social relations that make possible the current regimes of appropriation of nature.

Palabras clave : Glacier Law; Wetlands Law; Politicization of nature; Law on Minimum Standards for Conservation.

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