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Environmental struggles and insularity: The right to nature in Mallorca and Tenerife

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  • Alejandro Armas-Díaz
  • Ivan Murray
  • Fernando Sabaté-Bel
  • Macià Blázquez-Salom

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Islands worldwide experience commodification of land and natural resources that is closely related to touristic activity and urbanization. Islands represent the epitome of commodified represented spaces, power, and territorialization, and in this regard, focusing on islands may shed light on how the production of socio-natures shapes the dynamics of capital accumulation, dispossession, and resistance. We explore the contestation of urban-tourist development in Mallorca and Tenerife. Both have experienced an intense expansion of artificial land uses since the touristic boom in the mid-20th century, which has intensified with neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of everyday life elements. Environmental struggles in both islands have facilitated greater mobilization than other claims. An empirical survey of the spatio-temporal evolution of these two islands illustrates and helps to deepen the conceptual development of the right to the island and nature. The idea of the right to nature consists of the right to influence and rule the processes by which nature–society relationships are (re)shaped by urbanization and capitalism. The notion of the right to the island relies on the political action to foster a sustainable island future.

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  • Alejandro Armas-Díaz & Ivan Murray & Fernando Sabaté-Bel & Macià Blázquez-Salom, 2024. "Environmental struggles and insularity: The right to nature in Mallorca and Tenerife," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 42(4), pages 639-657, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:42:y:2024:i:4:p:639-657
    DOI: 10.1177/23996544231212294
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    1. Angela Hof & Macià Blázquez-Salom, 2013. "The Linkages between Real Estate Tourism and Urban Sprawl in Majorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)," Land, MDPI, vol. 2(2), pages 1-26, May.
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