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La Frontera - Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory (Hardcover)
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La Frontera - Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory (Hardcover)
Series: Radical Perspectives
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In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social
and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins
of today's forestry "miracle" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry
boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the
Pinochet dictatorship, La Frontera shows that forestry development
began in the early twentieth century when Chilean governments
turned to forestry science and plantations of the North American
Monterey pine to establish their governance of the frontier's
natural and social worlds. Klubock demonstrates that modern
conservationist policies and scientific forestry drove the
enclosure of frontier commons occupied by indigenous and
non-indigenous peasants who were defined as a threat to both native
forests and tree plantations. La Frontera narrates the century-long
struggles among peasants, Mapuche indigenous communities, large
landowners, and the state over access to forest commons in the
frontier territory. It traces the shifting social meanings of
environmentalism by showing how, during the 1990s, rural laborers
and Mapuches, once vilified by conservationists and foresters, drew
on the language of modern environmentalism to critique the social
dislocations produced by Chile's much vaunted neoliberal economic
model, linking a more just social order to the biodiversity of
native forests.
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