Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile: Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance [Hardcover]

Alejandro Mora-Motta holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn, Germany. His transdisciplinary research focuses on the social effects of extractivism, climate change, and socio-ecological transformation.

1.     Introduction

2.     The making of a logging enclave

3.     Extractivisms, territorial transformation, and well-being alternatives in Latin America

4.     Tree plantations and territorial transformation in rural La Uni?n

5.     Living within tree plantations: fundamental human needs in a transformed territory

6.     Emerging resistances and territorial planning in Los R?os

7.     Conclusion

8.     Annexe

This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile.

The book argues that pine and eucalyptus monoculture plantations in southern Chile are a form of extractivism representing a mode of nature appropriation that captures large amounts of natural resources to produce wooden-based raw materials with little processing and an export-oriented focus. The book discusses the nexus of extractivism, territorial transformations, well-being, and emelÓÈ