Abstract

The presence of industries dedicated to the exploitation of natural resources in indigenous and human communities with smaller scale economies is a phenomenon of great interest not only for science but also to the bodies responsible for administration and policy management territories. Whether forest plantations or salmon in Chile, flowers, shrimp or bananas in Ecuador, or any other similar in the world, we are almost always productive processes involving specific social systems. When it comes to monoculture production of social relations become more important, since it implies to neighborhood stakeholders who represent different ways of thinking and acting on nature, and that has implications in the way of understanding the economy, development and human being. This article describes some of the results of an investigation financed for Fondecyt dedicated to describing the relationship between forestry companies and the Mapuche comunities in Chile. Through this case, attention is paid to systems of social and inter etnhics relations in contexts that require the articulation between transnational and local production systems.