Responsabilidad Social Empresarial, ritual y extractivismo

El caso de la Fiesta de la Vendimia de Toconao en el Salar de Atacama, norte de Chile

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ID2990670
AuthorsRodrigo Azócar-Duarte (0000-0002-7599-2812, Universidad Católica del Norte, corresponding author), Théo Milin (0000-0003-0761-186X, Université Rennes 2)
Year2025
Volume70
Pagese6108
Publication date2025-04-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEstudios Atacameños Arqueología y antropología surandinas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0716-0925 • E-ISSN: 0718-1043
PublisherUniversidad Catolica del Norte - Chile (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2024-0018
OpenAlexW4404679896
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited26

Lithium mining has engaged in different types of relations with Indigenous communities since arriving in the Salar de Atacama between the 1980s and 1990s. One such relations strategy, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), was deployed in several regions worldwide in the 1990s as a joint effort by the mining industry to improve its image and focus on the episteme of 'sustainable mining.' This research looks at Ayllu Wine and the Toconao Harvest Festival, organized by the winemakers' cooperative and SQM, to analyze CSR in relation to the concepts of extractivism and ritual. On the basis of qualitative research using ethnographies, interviews, press archive reviews and secondary sources, this paper concludes that, in the midst of the current lithium boom, the Harvest Festival is, in spatial and temporal terms, a SQM governability strategy that produces tension in the community. Behind the festivity, discourse and iconography of 'responsible mining' lies booming extractivist production

Boom · Corporate social responsibility · Economy · Ethnography · Indigenous · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Sustainability · Anthropology · Indigenous Cultures and History · Mining and Resource Management · Ecology

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