ABSTRACT
The chapter introduces the main concepts related to environmental statehood and gives an overview of the socioecological repercussions of state interventions. The state is situated at the centre of complex interconnections, as the main entity responsible for the production of socionature and the biased mediator of politicised environmental issues. The contemporary, capitalist state encapsulates powerful anti-commons institutions, which were critical to secure the growth of commodity production and capital accumulation. The chapter, therefore, calls for a rapprochement between state theory and ecological politics. This means addressing state interventions from a politico-ecological perspective and crafting a political ecology framework of the state.
