Contested value and an ethics of resources: Water, mining and indigenous people in the Atacama Desert, Chile

S Babidge - The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The question of value is fundamental to contexts of resource scarcity given that contest over
use and distribution of scarce resources centres on judgments about rights, interests and …

Neoextractivism and indigenous water ritual in Salar de Atacama, Chile

S Babidge, P Bolados - Latin American Perspectives, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Latin American governments are neoextractivist: they promote exploitation of natural
resources as central to economic development while acting to mitigate some of the excesses …

Vulnerability and resistance to neoliberal environmental changes: an assessment of agriculture and forestry in the Biobio region of Chile (1974–2014)

R Torres, G Azócar, J Rojas, A Montecinos, P Paredes - Geoforum, 2015 - Elsevier
This article examines the dynamics of double exposure, vulnerability, and resistance to
neoliberal globalization and environmental change in the Chilean agricultural region of …

Markets, nature, neoliberalism, and conservation through private protected areas in southern Chile

G Holmes - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
A vibrant literature has emerged in recent years exploring moves towards neoliberal forms of
conservation, with a reduced role for the state and an enhanced role for markets and private …

Corporate reporting and conservation realities: Understanding differences in what businesses say and do regarding biodiversity

T Smith, J Paavola, G Holmes - Environmental Policy and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Businesses are increasingly called on to participate in tackling biodiversity loss, but the
extent of corporate commitments to act is unclear. We have a limited understanding of …

Mining and defensive mobilization: Explaining opposition to extractive industries in Chile

M Akchurin - Sociology of Development, 2020 - online.ucpress.edu
Opposition to the social and environmental impacts of large-scale mining has become more
visible in Chile since the early 1990s, yet not all mining projects catalyze mobilization …

“Socios”: The contested morality of “partnerships” in indigenous community–mining company relations, Northern Chile

S Babidge - The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In 2007 in northern Chile, an Atacamanian community and a multinational copper mining
company renewed a ten‐year deal relating to the company's use of territory and the impact …

Disentangling environmental and development discourses in a peripheral spatial context: The case of the Aysén Region, Patagonia, Chile

P Bachmann-Vargas… - The journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In places with a predominantly natural heritage, environmental and development discourses
are intertwined and often competing. A key dimension is the social construction of socio …

Weakness by design: Neoliberal governance over mining and water in Chile

I Gentes, P Policzer - Territory, Politics, Governance, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the consequences of Chile's neoliberal governance regime on the
heartland of the mining industry in the Atacama region, especially regarding access to and …

Activists and regulatory politics: Institutional opportunities, information, and the activation of environmental regulation

PA Haslam, J Godfrid - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
This article asks why civil society groups appear to have been more successful in activating
regulatory institutions in Chile, than in San Juan province, Argentina. The analysis …