Extractivist droughts: Indigenous hydrosocial endurance in Quillagua, Chile

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorAcuna, Valentina
dc.contributor.authorTironi, Manuel
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T21:04:35Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T21:04:35Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractExtractivism is intensifying climate-induced water tensions in indigenous communities. As a response, climate sciences have acknowledged the capacity of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) for the design and application of ad-hoc adaptation techniques and interventions. However, the mainstream literature on indigenous water-related adaptation has often presented TEK in ways that neglect the knowledge flexibility and its political role in community perseverance and indigenous resurgence. To expand on this analysis, we examine the case of the Aymara community of Quillagua in northern Chile in the context of "extractivist droughts," or water dispossession caused by the mining complex. Specifically, we describe how Quillaguenos and Quillaguenas articulate multiple strategies to resist against, co-exist with, and flourish in the face of the entwined effect of extractivism and colonialism on water, or what we call indigenous hydrosocial endurance. Drawing upon an ethnohistorical approach, we reconstruct the history of indigenous hydrosocial interventions articulated in Quillagua. Our results suggest that the Aymara community of Quillagua has resorted to four strategies to endure water dispossession over time: endurance by invention, reappropriation, ethnification, and tweaking. Each of these strategies responds to the specific and evolving hydro-political conditions produced by mining extraction that have affected indigenous livelihoods in the Atacama Desert since the 19th century. We conclude the article by arguing that adaptation literature and policy should acknowledge the embodied condition of indigenous knowledges; otherwise, it may be disempowering indigenous struggles against settler-colonialism.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.exis.2021.101027
dc.identifier.eissn2214-7918
dc.identifier.issn2214-790X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.101027
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/93250
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000820878200003
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaExtractive industries and society
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectDrought
dc.subjectIndigenous knowledge
dc.subjectIndigenous hydrosocial endurance
dc.subjectExtractivism
dc.subjectClimate Change
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.ods06 Clean Water and Sanitation
dc.subject.ods11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods14 Life Below Water
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.subject.odspa06 Agua limpia y saneamiento
dc.subject.odspa11 Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa14 Vida submarina
dc.titleExtractivist droughts: Indigenous hydrosocial endurance in Quillagua, Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen9
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
Files
Collections
Artículos de revistas