Marcos Mendoza

Green capitalism offers a salvific counterpoint to business-as-usual capitalism while underscoring the perils of environmental degradation and unsustainable development. Focusing on Latin America and drawing on the work of James Ferguson, this article examines how green capitalism is established, legitimized, and negotiated among marginalized rural populations through what we call "green distributive politics." Green distribution refers to value transfers that link state, capital, and civil-society actors in ways that promote environmental protection and green development. Different forms of distribution-such as markets, reciprocity, redistribution, and sharing-are mobilized by state and capital actors as they transfer value to marginalized populations and seek to legitimize new socioeconomic arrangements. Green distributive politics refers to efforts to build consent through distributive programs that both cultivate citizen-subjects with environmental responsibilities and open up longerterm fields of contested sociopolitical interactions with rural populations. The argument is developed comparatively across case studies from Chile (Aysén), Brazil (Acre), and Mexico (Michoacán) focused respectively on sustainable fishing, forest emissions reductions, and pine resin plantations. The article contributes to scholarship on capitalist environmentalisms by critiquing "green marketization" approaches as insufficiently attentive to the sociopolitical dynamics and varied distributive forms employed by state and capital actors to generate consent for green capitalist initiatives. It also elaborates a conceptual framework for green distributive politics that can be applied to other domains within and beyond Latin America.

This article examines financial media discourses and representations of the Greek debt crisis from 2010 to 2015. The analysis is based on financial media texts published by six major news outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom. This paper argues that the Anglo-American media generated a financial discourse of the Greek debt crisis based on an analogical framework to contemporary Argentina. The discussion highlights three aspects of this media discourse: the classification of the unfolding crisis type (liquidity, solvency, or political), the use of Argentine financial histories to understand the crisis type and predict its possible futures, and the modes of financial difference and sameness posited between Argentina and Greece. This article contributes to the global study of financial cultures by highlighting the politics of geo-cultural difference making that informs media financialization. The Argentina-Greece analogy becomes a proxy for the formation of European selfhood in relation to Latin American otherness.

This paper examines how Southern Andean Patagonia has been increasingly incorporated within networks of global capital since the 1990s. Once defined by military violence against indigenous societies, white settler colonialism, and livestock farming, this remote region has become an iconic center for green development in Latin America. This article develops the argument that a regional territorial imaginary—grounded in a history of borderland geopolitics—has facilitated this recent shift towards green development across the resource domains of land conservation, hydropower, and forestry. The discussion addresses the different ways in which forests, waterways, and protected areas (public and private) have been integrated into a hegemonic vision promoting eco-regionalism among state, corporate, and civil society actors. This analysis thus contributes to scholarship on global capitalism, natural resource governance, and green development in Latin America by developing the concept of the regional territorial imaginary to describe these dynamics. This analytic highlights how processes of capitalist specialization and region-alization occur through the open-ended consolidation of master images that build upon spatial histories, transnational regimes of representational value, and political struggles