La Cuestión agraria y el cobre en la Provincia de El Loa (1929/30 – 2006/07). Andes centro-sur, norte de Chile

Calderón, Matías; Prieto, Manuel

doi:10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2020-0042

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“…Their inhabitants have been dedicated to agriculture, grazing, and smallscale mining since the pre-colonial period (Adán & Uribe, 2005;Aldunate et al, 1986;Castro, 2016;Castro & Uribe, 2004). Although agricultural and livestock activities have undergone profound transformations (Calderón & Prieto, 2020;Castro & Martínez, 1996;Gundermann, 1998;Villagrán & Castro, 1997), they continue to this day, albeit with different levels of intensity throughout the basin (Figure 2). The main trends of change involved: a general weakening of pastoralism and subsistence agriculture, the limited emergence of market agriculture, the deagrarianisation of rural income, rural-urban migration, and the targeted retention of the rural population.…”

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“…However, rural demographic dynamics have not been homogeneous among the different localities over time. This dynamic has presented population growth trends according to market boom and bust cycles or when the extractive use of water has intensified, among other factors (Calderón & Prieto, 2020; Consecol Ltda., 1988). Caspana has its unique dynamics, which we will review later.…”

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Productive practices in Andean rural areas and their relationship to extractive markets (Atacama Desert, northern Chile, 1915–2019)

Calderón-Seguel

Prieto

2023

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Extractivism has marked the history of Latin America whose operations are in rural territories inhabited mainly by indigenous populations. Mining has had a remarkable expansion in rural territories of the Andes. Critical studies of these processes have focused on the disruptive aspects and conflict between companies, local populations, and States. However, mining has also been intertwined with the territories based on contradictory relationships at different timescales. To examine this issue, we carried out a historical reconstruction of the productive practices of the Caspana community indigenous (northern Chile) and their different forms of connection with mining development. We combine diverse data sources and methodological approaches: oral histories obtained from ethnography, censuses, explorers’ records, and academic literature. We identify different types of relationships over time, according to the different forms of indigenous participation in the extractive markets and the deployment and rearrangement of diverse economic strategies by the indigenous population.

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Productive practices in Andean rural areas and their relationship to extractive markets (Atacama Desert, northern Chile, 1915–2019)

Calderón-Seguel

Prieto

2023

Rural History

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Andean peatlands at risk? Spatiotemporal patterns of extreme NDVI anomalies, water extraction and drought severity in a large-scale mining area of Atacama, northern Chile

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International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinfor

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Mining Extractivism, Commodification of Nature and Indigenous Peasantry in the Atacama Desert: The Political Economy of Yareta (Azorella Compacta) in Historical Perspective (1915-1960)

Calderón-Seguel,

Prieto

2024

Latin American Perspectives

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Studies on the agrarian question in Latin America have dealt with the role of capital in the area of agriculture and forestry while paying scant attention to its role in other areas, such as mining. Research on mining extractivism, for its part, has privileged recent socio-environmental conflicts without delving into the configurations of social classes and labor relations as it relates to agriculture. This article integrates these topics, analyzing the connections between copper extractivism, the commodification of the yareta plant, and indigenous peasant labor. We studied the medium-upper basin of the Loa River, in northern Chile, where one of the most important copper mines in the world (Chuquicamata) has been operating since 1915. Using ethnography and bibliographic analysis, we provide an account of how the expansion of extractivism requires a mixture of properly capitalist labor relations mixed with customary Andean practices. The latter are subsumed by capital and have played a key structural role during certain periods.

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La Cuestión agraria y el cobre en la Provincia de El Loa (1929/30 – 2006/07). Andes centro-sur, norte de Chile

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Productive practices in Andean rural areas and their relationship to extractive markets (Atacama Desert, northern Chile, 1915–2019)

Productive practices in Andean rural areas and their relationship to extractive markets (Atacama Desert, northern Chile, 1915–2019)

Andean peatlands at risk? Spatiotemporal patterns of extreme NDVI anomalies, water extraction and drought severity in a large-scale mining area of Atacama, northern Chile

Mining Extractivism, Commodification of Nature and Indigenous Peasantry in the Atacama Desert: The Political Economy of Yareta (Azorella Compacta) in Historical Perspective (1915-1960)

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