Territorialities in struggle surrounding a wind farm in Argentina

Authors

  • Laura Kropff Causa IIDYPCA, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro/CONICET https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2016-3176

    Doctor in anthropology (University of Buenos Aires, 2008), independent researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council and professor at the National University of Río Negro where she is the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Anthropology (2020-2024). She has published in journals from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Portugal and the United States and is editor of Mapuche Theatre: Dreams, Memory and Politics and co-editor of The Land of Others: The Territorial Dimension of indigenous Genocide in Río Negro, and the Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies. She was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University (2006).

     
  • Ana Spivak L'Hoste CIS, IDES/CONICET https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7989-8305

    Doctor in social science (State University of Campinas, 2008), independent researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council. She has published in journals from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile and France and is author of The Balseiro. Memory and emotion in an Argentine scientific institution, and co-editor of Nature and knowledge in tension. Contributions to the environmental debate from the social sciences. She was CNRS Scholar at PACTE laboratory (20010).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202201.008

Keywords:

territoriality, renewale energie, indigenous rights, Mapuche, Patagonia

Abstract

This essay addresses territorial tensions that emerged within negotiations related to a wind farm project aimed to be located in a rural setting in Río Negro province (Argentina). The project is promoted by a Chinese company and was accepted due to an Environmental Impact Assessment that missed to mention that there was a Mapuche community where the wind farm was intended to be located. Therefore, the community requested the development of a consultation process. In this process, different territorial logics were put into play, however within asymmetrical relations. The essay approaches these logics based on empirical evidence that was gathered through ethnographic fieldwork and archive research. The argument focuses on the territorial assumptions expressed in the Environmental Impact Assessment in comparison with those sustained by the community emphasizing on the ontological dimension of the problem.

renewable energies – indigenous rights – mapuche – Patagonia – territoriality

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Published

2022-08-29

How to Cite

Kropff Causa, L., & Spivak L'Hoste, A. (2022). Territorialities in struggle surrounding a wind farm in Argentina. Anthropologica Del Departamento De Ciencias Sociales, 40(48), 227–254. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202201.008

Issue

Vol. 40 No. 48 (2022): Experience and experimentation: qualitative and audiovisual methodologies for doing etnography nowadays

Section

Territorial tensions

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