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Testing the Limits

Neoliberal Ecologies from Pinochet to Bachelet

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ID4501332
AuthorsA Latta (0000-0003-3439-2885), Beatriz Eugenia Cid Aguayo (0000-0003-0105-3553)
Year2012
Volume39
Issue4
Pages163-180
Publication date2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x12439050
OpenAlexW2111639458
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited11

Chile's impressive record of economic growth over the past 20 years has come with significant impacts on the environment. Though Chile's postdictatorship governments have embraced a discourse of sustainable development and created new institutions to address environmental issues, ecological degradation has largely continued unchecked. The government of Michelle Bachelet promised a series of institutional and regulatory changes that would substantially renew and advance the state's commitment to greening Chile's development model. As did her predecessors, however, Bachelet governed in a milieu in which the ideology of neoliberal modernization and elite power resisted interference in the cycle of capital investment and accumulation. Two case studies, one concerning the salmon farming industry and the other hydroelectricity, reveal the ways in which apparently "green" intentions were transformed into institutional support for the continued unsustainable exploitation of Chile's social and ecological capital. Los impresionantes logros chilenos en materia de crecimiento en los últimos 20 años han tenido un impacto sustancial en el medio ambiente. Aunque los gobiernos posteriores a la dictadura han adoptado un discurso de desarrollo sustentable y creado nuevas instituciones para atender asuntos ambientales, la degradación ecológica ha continuado sin control alguno. El gobierno de Michelle Bachelet prometió una serie de cambios institucionales y de regulación que habrían de renovar y avanzar sustancialmente el compromiso gubernamental con un modelo de desarrollo más sustentable. Pero, al igual que sus predecesores, Bachelet ha gobernado en un medio dentro del cual la ideología neoliberal de la modernización y las élites en el poder han resistido cualquier interferencia en el ciclo de acumulación e inversión del capital. Dos estudios de caso, uno relacionado con la industria de granjas de salmón y otro con la producción hidroeléctrica, revelan las formas en las que las supuestas intenciones "ambientalistas" se transformaron en formas de apoyo institucional para la continuada e insustentable explotación del capital social y ecológico chileno

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Citations per year1,86
Citation span2012 - 2025 (14)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 25

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