COMMODIFICATION OF NATURE IN SILA

Year 2019, Issue: 44, 41 - 51, 30.06.2019

Aydın Görmez , Necip Karabulak

Abstract

When
different ecological movements are examined, the common view is that nature is
faced with various threats and needs conservation in a rapidly modernizing
world. Capitalism with its instruments constitutes a threat to ecology. In this
respect, commodification of nature is one of these threats, and frequently
analyzed in the context of eco-criticism, a literary theory, and linked with
politics and deep ecology as well. It is also of vital importance in society to
consider to what extent the moral dimension of the commodification of nature is
concerned or thoroughly evaluated. From this point of view, the share of reason
and will is inevitable for every individual of the society in seeking for a
solution against ecological problems in general. As a result of this reality,
in the industrialized world, where ecological interests are ignored, ecological
sensitivity and consciousness in the face of commodification of nature are
gradually diminishing. In this sense, Karl Marx's political ecology and deep
ecology, providing a philosophical point of view bring a different dimension to
commodification. The purpose of this study is to explore the commodification of
nature via politics and deep ecology in Sila
by Chantal Bilodeau.

Keywords

Sila, ecocriticism, commodification, political and deep ecology

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