Nitrate ruins
The photography of mining in the Atacama Desert, Chile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise Purbrick (0000-0001-8603-6810, University of Brighton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 253-278 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2017.1313205 |
| OpenAlex | W2611622011 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
A photographic album entitled Oficina Alianza and Port of Iquique 1899 illustrates the industrial development of nitrate mining in Chile. From the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, British capitalists dominated the extraction of Chilean nitrate and its export as a fertilizer and an explosive. The Oficina Alianza, a nitrate works at the centre of British monopoly of the trade, is, as other oficinas 10 across the Antofagasta and Tarapaca ́ regions of the Atacama Desert, a ruin. This article considers the correspondences between Alianza’s photographic album, a record of a working nitrate oficina, and its abandoned industrial structures. It examines the ruin and the photograph as Benjaminian allegories
Archaeology · Art · Desert (philosophy · Economics · Geography · Monopoly · Nitrate · Photography · Political science · Port (circuit theory · Visual arts · Engineering · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Ecology
The Fertilizer Commodity Chains
Industrial Ruins
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Capitalism and Underdevelopment
Spaces of Global Capitalism
The British in the Atacama Desert
Ecological Imperialism and the Global Metabolic Rift
Irresistible Decay
Smokestack Nostalgia," "Ruin Porn" or Working-Class Obituary
The Enganche in the Chilean Nitrate Sector, 1880-1930
Chile in the Nitrate Era
Nitrate Crises, Combinations, and the Chilean Government in the Nitrate Age
The Chilean Nitrate Railways Controversy
From nitrate town to internment camp
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |