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Testing the Limits: Neoliberal Ecologies from Pinochet to Bachelet

Latta, Alex, Aguayo, Beatriz E. Cid·2012·Latin American Perspectives
DOI 10.1177/0094582x12439050
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Chile’s impressive record of economic growth over the past 20 years has come with significant impacts on the environment. Though Chile’s postdictatorship governments have embraced a discourse of sustainable development and created new institutions to address environmental issues, ecological degradation has largely continued unchecked. The government of Michelle Bachelet promised a series of institutional and regulatory changes that would substantially renew and advance the state’s commitment to greening Chile’s development model. As did her predecessors, however, Bachelet governed in a milieu in which the ideology of neoliberal modernization and elite power resisted interference in the cycle of capital investment and accumulation. Two case studies, one concerning the salmon farming industry and the other hydroelectricity, reveal the ways in which apparently “green” intentions were transformed into institutional support for the continued unsustainable exploitation of Chile’s social and ecological capital. Los impresionantes logros chilenos en materia de crecimiento en los últimos 20 años han tenido un impacto sustancial en el medio ambiente. Aunque los gobiernos posteriores a la dictadura han adoptado un discurso de desarrollo sustentable y creado nuevas instituciones para atender asuntos ambientales, la degradación ecológica ha continuado sin control alguno. El gobierno de Michelle Bachelet prometió una serie de cambios institucionales y de regulación que habrían de renovar y avanzar sustancialmente el compromiso gubernamental con un modelo de desarrollo más sustentable. Pero, al igual que sus predecesores, Bachelet ha gobernado en un medio dentro del cual la ideología neoliberal de la modernización y las élites en el poder han resistido cualquier interferencia en el ciclo de acumulación e inversión del capital. Dos estudios de caso, uno relacionado con la industria de granjas de salmón y otro con la producción hidroeléctrica, revelan las formas en las que las supuestas intenciones “ambientalistas” se transformaron en formas de apoyo institucional para la continuada e insustentable explotación del capital social y ecológico chileno.

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  • The Ley Indigena (No. 19.253 of 1993) included the provision for recognition of waters as owned in the name of titled indigenous communities where these waters appear on the surface and such waters are inalienable.

    “At that time they also introduced environmental legislation (Law 19.300 of 1994) and the Ley Indigena (No. 19.253 of 1993) or Indigenous Law, which included the provision for recognition of waters as owned in the name of titled indigenous communities where these waters appear on the surface and such waters are inalienable (Ministerio De Justicia Republica De Chile 2008;Latta and Cid Aguayo 2012).”

    From Contested value and an ethics of resources: Water, mining and indigenous people in the Atacama Desert, Chile (2016) · cites this paper as Latta and Cid Aguayo 2012

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Authors
Latta, A., & Aguayo, B. E. C.
ORCID
Latta, Alex
Venue
Latin American Perspectives
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2012-03-13
Volume
39
Issue
4
Pages
163-180
ISSN
  • 0094-582X (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-678X
DOI
10.1177/0094582x12439050
OpenAlex
W2111639458
Cited by
37
References
14
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
7.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Latin American Perspectives (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Natural Resources and Economic Development
Keywords
environmental degradation, sustainable development, neoliberalism, ecological capital, social capital, salmon aquaculture, hydropower, environmental regulation, elite power, Chile, Michelle Bachelet

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