The Limits of Care Vitality, Enchantment, and Emergent Environmental Ethics among the Mapuche People

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dc.contributor.authorDi Giminiani, Piergiorgio
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T21:01:06Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T21:01:06Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractDrawing on the experiences of caring in agriculture and forestry among Mapuche landholders of Chile, this article advances a definition of care as an act of relating intervening mutual articulations of vitality. Caring for nonhumans entails a reflexive awareness of the ontological and ethical limits of human care, limits made visible by the nonhumans' potentials to respond to our actions and affect us. Reflections on the limits of care foster an attentiveness to the conditions responsible for nonhumans' ability of enchantment, a term that in Bennett's proposal concerns an awareness on the singularness and surprising character of life. First, this article characterizes care as a human intentional action targeting dependent nonhumans, such as crops. Second, it illustrates the recalcitrance of some nonhumans to human care, as in the case of forests in Indigenous southern Chile. Third, it shows how care emerges from ethical aspirations and concerns, such as those at the core of Mapuche engagements with cultural reclamation and conservation.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1215/22011919-9712489
dc.identifier.issn2201-1919
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712489
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92828
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000846877300013
dc.issue.numero2
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final437
dc.pagina.inicio419
dc.revistaEnvironmental humanities
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectcare
dc.subjectenchantment
dc.subjectMapuche
dc.subjectdomestication
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectconservation
dc.subjectChile
dc.titleThe Limits of Care Vitality, Enchantment, and Emergent Environmental Ethics among the Mapuche People
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen14
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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