On the Environmental Society. An Attempt to Decolonizing the Franquismo and the Developmentalism from Europe

Abstract

In this paper, we will examine how was society able to reclaim changes into an authoritarian political system by analyzing environmental reasoning and actions against the productive and industrialist transformation of the environment during the Spanish dictatorship (1939-1979). These heterogeneous environmental actions and cultures appeared from different actors: urban, rural, and mountain people; workers, peasants and landowners; religious, intellectuals, trade unions, political parties, etc. As a result, a new environmental criticism of industrialist and developing authoritarian policies emerged. But, how much does environmental reclaim of changing universal was? And, what would this environmental mosaic configure in terms of society? The epistemic tool of decolonial thought, justified by data sources —likely widespread by applying a local and regional approach (Aragon)—, could permit new frames of reading and understanding emerging environmental societies and cultures.