Conflicts for control of Mapuche-Pehuenche land and natural resources in the Biobío highlands, Chile

Azocar, G.; Sanhueza R.; Aguayo, M; Romero, H.; Munoz M.D.

Keywords: rights, chile, population, america, conflict, south, indigenous, territory, land, use, Bio-Bio

Abstract

This paper analyzes the impact that the Chilean government's land-ownership policies have had on the Mapuche-Pehuenche communities, especially with respect to the control of their territory and natural resources. The results show a tendency towards non-protection of their rights to control their territories with an increasing loss of autonomy and control over land. State intervention, together with large private investment projects, has generated socio-economic and territorial impacts in the indigenous areas, such as the migration of young persons, socio-cultural changes, and conflicts over access and use of ecological zones. The territorial re-ordering of the original Mapuche space, combined with its increasing appropriation by private actors and the Chilean government, has produced a subordinated integration of the indigenous communities with respect to national society.

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Título de la Revista: JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY
Volumen: 4
Número: 2
Editorial: University of Texas Press
Fecha de publicación: 2005
Página de inicio: 57
Página final: 76
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-28244465696&partnerID=q2rCbXpz