The multiple environmentalities of conservation mapping in Patagonia-Aysen

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dc.contributor.authorAstaburuaga, Juan
dc.contributor.authorLeszczynski, Agnieszka
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Michael E.
dc.contributor.authorGaillard, J. C.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:20:50Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:20:50Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we mobilise a multiple environmentalities framework that captures overlapping rationalities of governing nature to engage and identify the role of maps and mapping practices in Patagonia-Aysen, Chile, a peripheral region where government and institutional actors have embraced (eco)tourism as a conservation strategy in protected areas. Through interviews with key stakeholders situated in conservation and tourism institutions in both the public and private sector, we identify two dominant environmentalities at play in the relationship between protected area management and tourism development in Patagonia-Aysen: a neoliberal environmentality, which seeks to promote conservation through the commodification of nature as a tourism product, and an environmentality of truth predicated on a singular, pristine and beautiful nature as an object of conservation and advantage for tourism. Through an analysis of conservation maps and mapping rationalities specific to the Cerro Castillo protected area in Patagonia-Aysen, we trace how these multiple environmentalities are consolidated, rendered real and actionable through geovisualisations and cartographic practices. We argue that conservation maps and mapping emerge as an 'encounter point' wherein multiple environmentality strategies and rationalities converge, producing a form of governing the spaces of conservation - what we term a spatial environmentality - rooted in neoliberal and aesthetic logics. Spatial environmentality, we contend, constitutes a form of governing conservation spaces by inscribing and assigning (in)appropiate uses to nature that operationalises institutional interests in conditioning the active engagement of 'environment subjects' to control, administer, and take care of the spaces of conservation while in turn making environmental stewardship profitable.
dc.description.funderAgencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Chile ANID
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/25148486221125228
dc.identifier.eissn2514-8494
dc.identifier.issn2514-8486
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221125228
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92599
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000855518800001
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final1965
dc.pagina.inicio1940
dc.revistaEnvironment and planning e-nature and space
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectConservation
dc.subjectenvironmentality
dc.subjectPatagonia
dc.subjectmaps and mapping
dc.subjectneoliberal nature
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods01 No Poverty
dc.subject.ods02 Zero Hunger
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa01 Fin de la pobreza
dc.subject.odspa02 Hambre cero
dc.titleThe multiple environmentalities of conservation mapping in Patagonia-Aysen
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen6
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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