Invasores, colonizadores y autóctonos

This essay tries to present some ideas about symbolic and conceptual framework of the narrative scheme of biological conservationism, especially the classic nativist duality that categorizes animals as introduced (invaders)/native; of its limitations, contradictions, and rhetorical strategies, and well as its recent transformation forced by the experience of the processes unleashed by globalization. In this way, I will attend to the corporate and paradigmatic dispute that underlies the controversy between conceptual frameworks and between proposals for action: that struggle between 'originist' (or nativist) conservationists and pragmatists, and between the former and other groups for the prevalence in public and institutional opinion of its own imaginary, narrative and normative proposals, about the nature and regulation of the relationships between human (cultural) action and the environment. I will pay attention to what such a dispute may imply as a struggle to deploy biopower on a large scale.