El sentipensar extractivo colonial: Geografías emocionales de la extracción en Gülumapu, el territorio mapuche en el sur de Chile

Extractivisms, existences, and extinctions

“…However, there is much work that can still be done to expand the scope and coverage of studying the extractivisms that are linked to tree planting and plantations. As a promising example of a new wave of forestry extractivism scholarship, González-Hidalgo, López-Dietz, and Pacheco-Pailahual (2019) show how emotional violence and remedies to the inflicted pain are essential for expanding forestry extractivism onto Mapuche lands, thus uniting political ecological analysis with an assessment of emotional dynamics. Such notions are important aspects when considering the quality of life, and how that is affected by extractivist advances.…”

Conflicto, territorio y extractivismo en Chile. Aportes y límites de la producción académica reciente

“…Finalmente, otro aspecto interesante que podemos notar es que el concepto de extractivismo no sólo denota procesos físicos o tangibles asociados a ciertas actividades económicas, sino también en estrecha conexión con sus consecuencias socioculturales o simbólicas en la construcción de espacios (Romero-Toledo, 2019) y en la profundización de un proyecto culturalmente colonizador (González et al, 2019).…”

“…El resto minoritario de los trabajos se dividen entre los que usan técnicas cuantitativas (Rivera et al, 2016;Akchurin, 2020) o mixtas (Romero-Toledo, 2019). Cabe mencionar que sólo uno de los trabajos revisados reconoce fundamentarse en la tradición de la Investigación Acción Participativa (González et al, 2019).…”

The ambivalent political work of emotions in the defence of territory, life and the commons

“…My research in southern Chile showed how emotions are constitutive of the programmes of state and private enterprises that 'accumulate through disciplining', where the educational campaigns, negotiations and extortions to prevent fires by state and private institutions revealed how extractivism consciously, strategically and deliberatively designs strategies for disciplining subjectivities and ensures the continuity of their extractivist project (Gonza´lez-Hidalgo and Zografos, 2017;Gonza´lez-Hidalgo et al, 2019). Emotional compensations or 'painkillers' (as one interviewee named them, such as offering football courts or hairdressing services) are strategies used by the state and the private sector to convince locals of the benefits of living in between tree plantations, and thus encouraging that locals engage emotionally with tree plantations and the project of building Chile as a 'forest-extractive country'.…”