Abstract

FERNANDEZ, Ernesto Martínez. The accents of the environment: processes of environmentalisation, social force and discursive articulation in the Andalusian Sierra Morena. Etnográfica [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.1, pp.49-68. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.8206.

The embracing of environmental practices and languages by the agrarian sectors that inhabit natural protected areas is a phenomenon broadly confirmed by anthropological literature. This article analyses the specific version of that process encountered among farmers of a natural park located in the Andalusian Sierra Morena. That “environmentalisation,” it is argued, is closely linked to the weight that state interventions - and its transformations - have on the shaping of local reality. Moreover, the phenomenon takes place mainly within the arenas of confrontation between farmers and agents of those interventions. The article explores the relationality of the environmental significant within those struggles and highlights the relevance of its articulation with key elements of “common sense” (in a Gramscian sense). These discourses, it is argued, are able to re-signify the premises of “institutionalised” environmental narratives, thus shaping new grassroots environmentalisms.

Keywords : environmentalisation; natural protected areas; discursive articulation; sustainable development; ethnography; Spain.

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