How to Manage a Forest: Environmental Governance in Neoliberal Chile

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dc.contributor.authorDi Giminiani, Piergiorgio
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-23T21:27:44Z
dc.date.available2025-01-23T21:27:44Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractKnowledge transfer is a central feature of environmental governance worldwide. Over the last three decades, state action targeting small land holders has been increasingly shaped around managerial ideals of natural resource use and conservation. By drawing on ethnographic research among farmers and forest officers in Chile, this article highlights the intersections between knowledge and monitoring in forest governance. In a departure from rigid narratives of power/knowedge in environmental governance, I show that forest management programs do not lead to the formation of uniform environmental subjects among farmers as functions of state discourses on natural resource use. Yet, forest management is far from being a neutral instance of knowledge transfer. By inserting farmers' and officers' actions within complex auditing systems, environmental programs serve to promote new strategies of monitoring through which ecological knowledge among both groups is marginalized in favor of legal regulatory frameworks and understandings of forest livelihood. Environmental auditing targeting small landholders constitutes a governmental solution to the restructuring of state intervention under neoliberalism, which aims at favoring the inclusion of smallholders in the global market in line with the principles of individual accountability and self-realization.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.eissn1534-1518
dc.identifier.issn0003-5491
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/101389
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000388652800002
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final751
dc.pagina.inicio723
dc.revistaAnthropological quarterly
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subjectChile
dc.subjectenvironmental governance
dc.subjectneoliberalism
dc.subjectaudit culture
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjectforest
dc.subjectlandscape
dc.subjectsettler society
dc.subject.ods01 No Poverty
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.ods02 Zero Hunger
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.odspa01 Fin de la pobreza
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.subject.odspa02 Hambre cero
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.titleHow to Manage a Forest: Environmental Governance in Neoliberal Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen89
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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