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DOI	10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102194
	Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert: 19th and early 20th century mining/water extraction in The Taltal district, northern Chile
	Mendez, Manuel; Prieto, Manuel; Godoy, Milton
通讯作者	Prieto, M
来源期刊	POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
ISSN	0962-6298
EISSN	1873-5096
出版年	2020
卷号	81
英文摘要	The Chilean water model imposed by the Chilean dictatorship in 1981 is broadly known as a radical example of neoliberal water management. Several studies have focused their analyses on this model, and its relation to mining, from a political ecology perspective; however, this has minimized the broader historical context. In this paper, we followed a geohistorical standpoint to gain an extensive understanding of the processes of mining development and the related water extraction in the Atacama Desert. By analyzing different official documents, historical sources and scientific discourses of the 19th and early 20th centuries, we aimed to denaturalize the idea of the Atacama Desert as hyper-arid space, rich in mineral resources. By doing so, from a political ecology perspective, and with a critical approach to territory, we interrogated the mining development in the Taltal district (1840-1920). This exercise led us to understand the Atacama Desert as a socially-produced mining territory, or miningscape, where foreign actors have produced hegemonic discourses and uneven materialities. Here, water, minerals, global markets, scientific knowledge, political and legal discourses, and colonialism have inevitably become interwoven in a territorial long-standing production process. Thus, we propose that the production of miningscapes and waterscapes are entangled process in the Andes mining territories. In turn, this process has enabled the reproduction of the Chilean state, capital accumulation, and the consolidation of a modern project at the expense of local populations and rationalities, which have been invisibilized.
英文关键词	Miningscapes Waterscapes Subterranean territory Northern Chile Atacama desert
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000557635300003
WOS关键词	WATER ; SCIENCE ; POWER ; TERRITORIALIZATION ; POLITICS ; STATE ; LAND ; LOA
WOS类目	Geography ; Political Science
WOS研究方向	Geography ; Government & Law
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/325517
作者单位	[Mendez, Manuel] Univ Rennes 2, Lab CReAAH LAHM, Av Gen Leclerc CS 74205, F-35042 Rennes, France; [Mendez, Manuel] Univ Catolica Norte, Inst Arqueol & Antropol IAA, Gustavo Le Paige 380, San Pedro De Atacama 1410000, Chile; [Prieto, Manuel] Univ Tarapaca, Dept Ciencias Hist & Geog, 18 Septiembre 2222, Arica 1010069, Chile; [Godoy, Milton] Univ Tarapaca, Gen Velasquez 1775, Arica 1000007, Chile
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mendez, Manuel,Prieto, Manuel,Godoy, Milton. Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert: 19th and early 20th century mining/water extraction in The Taltal district, northern Chile[J],2020,81.
APA	Mendez, Manuel,Prieto, Manuel,&Godoy, Milton.(2020).Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert: 19th and early 20th century mining/water extraction in The Taltal district, northern Chile.POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY,81.
MLA	Mendez, Manuel,et al."Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert: 19th and early 20th century mining/water extraction in The Taltal district, northern Chile".POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 81(2020).