Disasters and the critical environmentality of capitalism

Abstract

The text discusses some possible articulations between the notions of ecological crisis and disaster and the capitalist processes of reproduction and crisis. Taking a critical point of view regarding conceptions that reifies technology and consider that the ecological crisis is due to the destructive power of technologies, the text develops the hypothesis that the indicators of climatic change and the disasters associated to it result from a certain form of coordination of spatial practices based on an unequal distribution of environmental and technological risks.  

Keywords: Capitalismo. Disaster. Crisis. Deregulation. Risk.