Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This work takes stock of the recent trajectory of the environmental issue in Argentina and explains how the government of Javier Milei has produced a qualitative leap in environmental policy there. I present a summary of the experience of environmental activism, detailing its specific contribution to the debate on the role of extractivism and the problems for democracy. I explore the different ways in which legislative activism has had consequences at the institutional level. I also present some of the reforms promoted by the government of Javier Milei to show their regressive nature in the environmental field. Finally, I address environmental denialism and its role in justifying a frontal attack on acquired environmental rights; this will allow me to reflect more generally on the anti-environmental rhetoric of the right wing in Latin America.
DOI: 10.1086/737786
Author: María Gabriela Merlinsky
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4415527161