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Collective action and imaginaries in contexts of environmental interest. An ethnography of the Pro-Sustainability Settlements in Chile

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  • Leonardo Cancino Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
No. 56 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2018.51555

Abstract

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the notion of social movement was associated with class structure and public conflict. From the 1960s in Europe and the 1980s in Latin America, this conception begins to be questioned, due to the emergence of actors and demands that privilege aspects of value or identity. As a consequence, the notion of social movement was broadened and began to address groups oriented towards the transformation of specific aspects of daily life. One of the actors visible during this mutation of the collective action was the environmental movement. Part of it, was intermingled with the tradition of the utopian colonies of the 19th century and the counterculture communes of the 1960s, to give rise to different types of settlements that hold speeches in favor of the environment or sustainability, such as ecovillages and ecological communities, gathered here, under the notion of Pro-Sustainability Settlements (ApS). In this article and through an ethnography carried out at these places, the forms taken by contemporary collective action in a context of environmental motivations are questioned. It is proposed that the ApS are configured as a sociocultural movement that intersects diverse identities and that finds, in “nature” and in its polysemy, a signifier with articulatory effects and potential.

Keywords:

Chile, Ecovillages, Nature, Social Movements, Territorialization

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Cancino, L. (2018). Collective action and imaginaries in contexts of environmental interest. An ethnography of the Pro-Sustainability Settlements in Chile. Investigaciones Geográficas, (56), 45–79. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2018.51555
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