Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Drawing on the experiences of caring in agriculture and forestry among Mapuche landholders of Chile, this article advances a definition of care as an act of relating intervening mutual articulations of vitality. Caring for nonhumans entails a reflexive awareness of the ontological and ethical limits of human care, limits made visible by the nonhumans’ potentials to respond to our actions and affect us. Reflections on the limits of care foster an attentiveness to the conditions responsible for nonhumans’ ability of enchantment, a term that in Bennett’s proposal concerns an awareness on the singularness and surprising character of life. First, this article characterizes care as a human intentional action targeting dependent nonhumans, such as crops. Second, it illustrates the recalcitrance of some nonhumans to human care, as in the case of forests in Indigenous southern Chile. Third, it shows how care emerges from ethical aspirations and concerns, such as those at the core of Mapuche engagements with cultural reclamation and conservation.
Source: Environmental Humanities
Author: Piergiorgio Di Giminiani
Institution: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: G2235896620, G3200345194, BECOMING ENTREPRENEURS AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO MICRO-ENTREPRENEURSHIP NEOLIBERALISM AND STATE ACTION IN MARGINALIZED SECTORS OF CHILEAN SOCIETY, CENTRO INTERDISCIPLINARIO DE ESTUDIOS INTERCULTURALES E INDIGENAS (CIIR), INTERCULTURALIDAD Y CIUDADES INTERMEDIAS PRACTICAS DE MOVILIDAD Y LA CONSTRUCCION DE TERRITORIALIDADES. EL CASO DE LA ARAUCANIA (CHILE), ASPIRATION AND EVERYDAY LIFE UNDER NEOLIBERALISM A MULTI-SITED ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF SELF-MAKING IN CHILE, G8398019017, G938773944
OpenAlex ID: W4289532041