Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile: Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance

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Alejandro Mora-Motta

Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile

Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance

Alejandro Mora-Motta

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English

Routledge
29 March 2024

Rural communities; Human geography; Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques

Series: Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development

This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile.

The book argues that pine and eucalyptus monoculture plantations in southern Chile are a form of extractivism representing a mode of nature appropriation that captures large amounts of natural resources to produce wooden-based raw materials with little processing and an export-oriented focus. The book discusses the nexus of extractivism, territorial transformations, well-being, and emerging resistances using a participatory action research methodological approach in the Region of Los Ríos, southern Chile. The findings show how the configuration of an extractivist logging enclave generated a substantial and irrevocable reordering of human-nature relations, resulting in the territorial and ontological occupation of rural places that disrupted the fundamental human needs of peasants and indigenous people. The book maintains that Chile's green growth development approach does not challenge the consolidated tree plantation enclave controlled by large multinationals. Instead, green growth legitimises the extractivist logic. The book draws parallels with other countries and regions to contribute to wider debates surrounding these topics.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, development studies, political ecology, and natural resource governance.

By: Alejandro Mora-Motta
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032488561
ISBN 10: 1032488565
Series: Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 29 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. The making of a logging enclave 3. Extractivisms, territorial transformation, and well-being alternatives in Latin America 4. Tree plantations and territorial transformation in rural La Unión 5. Living within tree plantations: fundamental human needs in a transformed territory 6. Emerging resistances and territorial planning in Los Ríos 7. Conclusion 8. Annexe

Alejandro Mora-Motta holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany. His transdisciplinary research focuses on the social effects of extractivism, climate change, and socio-ecological transformation.