Of systemic chaos and civilization crisis: current territorial tensions

Abstract

In this article we reflect on the current historical-civilizing moment we are experiencing. It is a historic period in crisis, but a crisis that goes beyond the crisis of capitalism as a civilizing crisis. It is a period of systemic chaos or crisis of a pattern of power / knowledge that has governed us for 500 years. Therefore, a long-term crisis. The foundations on which this pattern of power / knowledge was sustained - domination of nature and all social groups that are assimilated to nature - the indigenous / savages, blacks, women, those who operate with their hands, whether proletarians or peasants - begin to be openly questioned by those who, despite fighting for more than 500 years, only now after 1950/1960 start to have a voice. Thus, they reinvent their relations with nature and culture, with the concept of denaturalizing territory. Thus, in the face of one of the most intense expropriation processes that humanity has ever lived, as in the last 50 years, other theoretical-political references emerge, signaling that we are facing other horizons of meaning that are not eurocentric.