Could the Search for Sustainability Reinforce Socio-ecological Conflict?: The Mining Industry in Chile and Its Impact at the Local and Regional Level

Medina, Fernando Campos

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“…La explotación intensiva de minerales ha sido un factor de transformación institucional, presión ambiental, conflicto social y proletarización muy fuerte en la región desde su industrialización a principios del siglo xx. Destacan al respecto la sobreexplotación del agua, la presencia de relaves, la contaminación atmosférica, de suelos, agua, entre otros factores (Bolados, 2014;Campos-Medina, 2015;Prieto, 2017;Yáñez & Molina, 2011). En zonas rurales, las comunidades indígenas se han visto afectadas por la minería.…”

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Nuevas aproximaciones teóricas a las regiones-commodity desde la ecología política

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Prieto

2019

EURE (Santiago)

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resumen | Las transformaciones territoriales impulsadas por la apertura de la economía chilena al libre mercado hace cuarenta años han sido analizadas desde múltiples perspectivas. Una de ellas fue propuesta el año 2003 por Antonio Daher, al describir ciertas regiones como "regiones-commodity", refiriéndose a aquellas cuya actividad económica se concentra en la exportación de una o dos mercancías, como vía de inserción en los mercados globales. En este trabajo revisitamos este concepto y lo problematizamos desde la ecología política, a partir del análisis de cuatro dimensiones: producción, ciclos de boom y crisis, materialidad de la naturaleza comoditizada e identidad, aplicándolo a dos casos: las regiones de Antofagasta (minería del cobre) y de Los Lagos (salmonicultura). Nuestro argumento es que, para entender la transformación territorial que han vivido estas regiones, debemos primero reconocer el proyecto de neoliberalización territorial; y en segundo lugar, politizar el análisis de dicho proyecto mediante la consideración de la materialidad de la naturaleza que será comoditizada. palabras clave | economía regional, reestructuracón territorial, regionalización. abstract | The territorial transformations driven by the opening of the Chilean economy to the free market forty years ago have been analyzed from multiple perspectives. One of them was proposed in 2003 by Antonio Daher, describing certain regions as "commodity-regions", referring to those whose economic activity focuses on the export of one or two goods, as a way of insertion in global markets. In this work we revisit this concept and problematize it from the perspective of political ecology, based on four dimensions (production, boom and crisis cycles, materiality of commoditized nature, and identity) applied to two cases: Antofagasta Region (mining of the copper) and Los Lagos Region (salmon farming). Our argument is that, to understand the territorial transformation that these regions have experienced, we must first recognize the project of territorial neoliberalization; and second, politicize the analysis of the project by considering the materiality of nature that will be commoditized.

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Nuevas aproximaciones teóricas a las regiones-commodity desde la ecología política

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2019

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“…Civil society and local authorities stress ecological modernization as an engine for nature's subjugation and commodification. Meanwhile, local community representatives shed light on the social conflict provoked by exponential growth from extractive industries (Campos-Medina, 2015). In this scenario, conflicts are evidence of the lack of real debate between actors as well as meaningful forms of social deliberation.…”

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Ecological modernization from the actor’s perspective: Spatio-temporality in the narratives about socio-ecological conflicts in Chile

Medina

2018

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Studies on ecological modernization have produced a fruitful discussion concerning the connection between society and nature based on the evolution of socio-political institutions. However, the question from the individual’s perspective and their evaluation of the environmental institutions’ modernization remains unsystematically explored. This paper introduces the actor’s narratives on what I called time and space restructuration to define a sensitive method to explore the socio-ecological controversies produced by the enactment of a new environmental institution at the national level. The paper reconstructs the social discourse in relation to the exponential growth of Chilean extractive industries, which run in parallel with the government’s intent to ensure high levels of sustainability through institutional changes that occurred between 1990 and 2015. The main argument proposes that rendering the ecological modernization as a final stage of institutional improvement obscures a controversial reorganization of actions and roles at the environmental level. From this perspective, the clash between different organizations of time and space at the environmental level, among different social actors, offers a valid perspective on the re-emergence of socio-ecological conflicts.

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Measuring the effect of university students’ psychological resilience on their valuation of sustainability in entrepreneurship

Barrera-Verdugo

2023

Cogent Social Sciences

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Could the Search for Sustainability Reinforce Socio-ecological Conflict?: The Mining Industry in Chile and Its Impact at the Local and Regional Level

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Nuevas aproximaciones teóricas a las regiones-commodity desde la ecología política

Nuevas aproximaciones teóricas a las regiones-commodity desde la ecología política

Ecological modernization from the actor’s perspective: Spatio-temporality in the narratives about socio-ecological conflicts in Chile

Measuring the effect of university students’ psychological resilience on their valuation of sustainability in entrepreneurship

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