Eco-extractivism and discourses of nature in Patagonia-Aysén: new geographical imaginaries and renewed territorial control processes

Abstract

This article presents a series of impacts or change processes that have emerged in the new culture-nature relationship in Patagonia-Aysén. We argue that (new) Nature does not exist in itself just as a projection of value and identity of socio-temporal processes that reflect significant consensus. We formulate that the new geographical rhetoric that socially expresses Patagonia-Aysén since 1990 represents a re-appropriation of Nature and a new interpretative matrix around it. This matrix is not alien to logics of power and the development of capitalist mechanisms which see in this "new" Green Nature an opportunity for specific businesses, a support of capitalist production that we call eco-extractivism.