The political economy of resentment: A result of public policies that become government policies?

Abstract

The mechanism responsible for the shift of public policies into government policies is a neocolonialist political cosmology which, through the manipulation of representations of time and space, has crystallized social identities which were constructed in a top down fashion. Life histories, which were sustained by naturalistic traditions and forms of knowledge - geared towards probabilities - became confronted with knowledge forms that were oriented towards the future, towards universalism, and towards predictability. Places that were lived in with affective ties with the material environment became indeterminate spaces, goods subject to the diffuse interests of a surrounding society that is planetary in scale. The result is, then, a shift from public socioenvironmental policies - understood as policies rooted in society at large - to government development policies - seen as policies supported, implemented, or endorsed by government.