Testing the Limits
Neoliberal Ecologies from Pinochet to Bachelet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Latta (0000-0003-3439-2885), Beatriz Eugenia Cid Aguayo (0000-0003-0105-3553) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 163-180 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x12439050 |
| OpenAlex | W2111639458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 11 |
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
Art · Economics · Economy · Elite · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
La fiebre de las algas. Forma y dinámicas del extractivismo en la costa chilena
Mining and Defensive Mobilization
Social and political opposition to energy pricing reforms
Disentangling Environmental and Development Discourses in a Peripheral Spatial Context
Activists and regulatory politics
Weakness by design
Moving Beyond Co-Management
Social Underpinnings of Ecological Knowledge
Protest and Accountability without the Press
Vulnerability and resistance to neoliberal environmental changes
Green distributive politics
Contested value and an ethics of resources
Ecophilanthropy, Neoliberal Conservation, and the Transformation of Chilean Patagonia's Chacabuco Valley
Shadow ecologies of conservation
What the Gringos Brought
Making Maps on the Coast of Patagonia
(De)Financing remunicipalisation
Crisis and catastrophe on Chiloé
Routine Losses, Continuous Improvement, and Warming Oceans
Neoextractivism and Indigenous Water Ritual in Salar de Atacama, Chile
Markets, Nature, Neoliberalism, and Conservation through Private Protected Areas in Southern Chile
Failing forward
Enforcing Citizen Participation Through Litigation
Socios
Sanitary Crises and "No Contact" Aquaculture
Fishers who don't fish
Power, Nature and Neoliberalism
Neoliberal economics, democratic transition, and Mapuche demands for rights in Chile
Waiting for the Forest Law
Ecological Impacts of Chile's Neoliberal Policies, with Special Emphasis on Agroecosystems
Social multi-criteria evaluation of different development scenarios of the Aysén region, Chile
Environmental politics in Chile
The Chilean Model
Citizenship and the Politics of Nature
Protected Neoliberalism
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,86 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |