Socio-territorial Disputes and Violence on Fracking Land in Vaca Muerta, Argentina

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ID4500792
AuthorsMaría Gisela Hadad (0000-0002-6354-2910, corresponding author), Tomás Palmisano (0000-0001-8244-514X), Juan Wahren (0000-0001-5594-0831)
Year2021
Volume48
Issue1
Pages63-83
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x20975009
OpenAlexW3110762826
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited8

With the discovery of unconventional hydrocarbon deposits and the consequent expansion of the commodity frontiers in the past decade, a series of territorial disputes over the geological formation called Vaca Muerta has arisen in the province of Neuquén, Argentina, between oil companies, Mapuche indigenous communities, pastoralists, and the state. A general panorama of territorial conflict, state and parastate violence, tension, and negotiation among various actors in conflict in the department of Añelo suggests that violence in the territory is complex and multidimensional, since it supposes the superposition of its direct, structural, ecological, epistemic, and mercantilist forms. En la última década, con el descubrimiento de yacimientos de hidrocarburos no convencionales y la consiguiente ampliación de la frontera mercantil, se han generado en la provincia de Neuquén, Argentina, una serie de disputas territoriales en torno a la formación geológica denominada Vaca Muerta entre empresas petroleras, comunidades indígenas mapuche, crianceros y diferentes niveles del Estado. Un panorama general de la conflictividad territorial, violencias estatales y para-estatales, procesos de tensión y negociación entre los diferentes actores en pugna del departamento de Añelo sugiere que la violencia en el territorio es de carácter complejo y multidimensional pues supone la superposición de su forma directa, estructural, ecológica, epistémica y mercantil

Economics · Economy · Geography · Humanities · Indigenous · Political science · State (computer science · Ecology · Indigenous Cultures and History · Mining and Resource Management · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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