From rural haven to civil political project

Utopian ideals and environmental protection in the precordillera, Santiago, Chile

Bibliographic Data

ID4760093
AuthorsConsuelo Biskupovic (0000-0003-0829-7606, Universidad de Los Andes, Chile, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume22
Issue1
Publication date2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Ecology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1073-0451 • E-ISSN: 1073-0451
PublisherUniversity of Arizona (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2458/v22i1.21084
OpenAlexW2765124940
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited10

This article describes the origin and development of local political culture in the La Florida commune (Lo Cañas neighborhood), located in the foothills of the Andes, on the edge of Santiago, Chile. It presents an ethnography of la Red, a civil association created in 2006 to 'protect' the foothills from real estate development. First, this work analyses how nature's destruction is experienced as a threat to the way of life and utopian project of residents and Red members. The construction of the neighborhood is intimately related to the configuration of this political project. Different ideals of what the environment means were studied in order to analyze the construction of, and the engagement with, this space. Through this case study, we consider two different utopias: the community project as a common savoir-vivre in the precordillera and, later, the creation of a civil-political project aimed at producing political changes and maintaining a way of life

Cartography · Foothills · Geography · Haven · Political science · Politics · Real estate · Real estate development · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Work (physics) · Engineering · Latin American Urban Studies · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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