It is proposed a political ecology that complements the notion of territorial projects, apprehended by the analysis of disputes among different political strategies conducted by economic activities that articulate social actors and environments, it enables the analysis of conflicts and processes of environmental change. The study of socio-environmental conflicts should come from intensive analysis of historical cases in order to elucidate how social actors in dispute are bound together by specific modes of mutual dependence, interlined by a moving equilibrium of tensions, which result in territorialization processes, understood as transformations in the forms of appropriation of territory and their natural resources, which are constantly structured, unstructured and restructured by the practices of social groups and the established interdependent relationships, that bind them to each other by networks of interests relating to social figuration.
Political ecology; Socio-environmental; Social figurations; Territorialization processes