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FOA TORRES, Jorge Gabriel. LOGICS OF ENVIRONMENTALLY ADEQUATE MANAGEMENT AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN: THE EMBLEMATIC ISSUE OF THE HAZARDOUS WASTE POLICIES IN ARGENTINA IN THE 90's. Luna Azul [online]. 2016, n.42, pp.293-318. ISSN 1909-2474.  https://doi.org/10.17151/luaz.2016.42.18.

This article presents a discursive-political analysis of the greening process experienced by the markets and Latin American States during the 90's through the study of the emblematic issue of the environmentally sound management policies of hazardous waste in Argentina. The perspective of this article is the post-Marxist analysis of policies that seeks to put emphasis on the founding moments of significant processes involved in public policies. To understand and critique such greening process, it was necessary to identify the logic of the adequate environmentally sound management as a category that allowed condensing a cluster of discursive practices aimed at: reducing the State to mere market operator, self-restrict its sovereign powers, and limit its work around hazardous waste to the information recording function towards favoring strategies of business self-control. The explanation of the research problem constructed from the logic of the environmentally sound management led, in turn, to the identification of a central explanatory hypothesis of the greening process in the 90's in Argentina and Latin America: sustainable development as development pattern and central reference point in the decade when it comes to signify environmental problems and their most adequate solutions. The idea of pattern implies in this case, rather than any supposed international humanitarian-ecological intervention for the technical protection of the natural environment, the most adequate, on one hand, for the radicalization of structurally heterogeneous conditions of peripheral economy such as the Argentinian economy and, on the other hand, to go deeper into the asymmetries between the North and South countries as well as the transnationalism of the national productive.

Palabras clave : Post-Marxism; environmental public policies; hazardous waste.

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