Enrique ALISTE, University of Chile, Chile
Andres NUÑEZ, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile
The protection of nature has been positioned as a necessary action against the levels of destruction and environmental deterioration on the planet, which has been especially reinforced in the face of climate change scenarios and their expected negative effects. Several institutions have been concerned with promoting and creating conditions that help to develop effective environmental protection measures, thereby installing a green discourse that has been widely visible and accepted across the board, especially to protect certain regions of the planet. One of them is Patagonia.
The present communication seeks to reflect and debate about the way and way in which these actions have stimulated territorial production mechanisms whose consequences are the creation of a green land market for environmental protection purposes, creating a “greening” of neoliberal practices and creating forms of territorial hegemony that have radically transformed the regional, social and cultural geography of Chilean Patagonia in the last 20 years.
Mots clés : green grabbing|Chilean Patagonia|green washing|social and cultural geography|green discourses
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