How sovereignty claims and “negative” emotions influence the process of subject-making: Evidence from a case of conflict over tree plantations from Southern Chile

• Published in: Geoforum Vol. 78; pp. 61 - 73
• Main Authors: González-Hidalgo, Marien, Zografos, Christos
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2017; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Accumulation; Capital formation; Communities; Conflict; Discipline; Economic models; Emotional experiences; Emotions; Forestry; Local population; Mapuche; Plantations; Populations; Power; Power plants; Resistance; Self expression; Sorrow; Southern Hemisphere; Sovereignty; Subjectivation; Subjectivity; Sustainable development; Tree plantations; Chile; Tree plantations; Subjectivation; Mapuche; Conflict; Discipline; Emotions

•We analyse a conflict related to forestry extractivism in Southern Chile.•We enrich political ecology analysis of conflicts considering “the emotional”•Plantations reflect a long history of land control struggles for capital accumulation.•State and companies attempt controlling subjectivities to mi...