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Mapuche women caring with the Cholchol river: Defending Itrofill Mongen as an environmental struggle

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This article analyzes the socioenvironmental struggle waged to defend the Cholchol River in the Araucanía Region of Chile and more specifically the central role of women in this struggle. My analysis is structured around three main theoretical frameworks: the ethics of care, feminist political ecology, and the sociology of attachment. These perspectives allow us to read the ways in which extractive predation affects the river, subsistence activities, and networks of reciprocity. This struggle brings to light a specific way of doing politics based on care for living beings, relationships, and the material conditions of life’s reproduction.

Source: Current Sociology

DOI: 10.1177/00113921261497875

Author: Mélanie Antin

Institutions: Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces

Language: English

Topic: Environmental Movements and Political Ecology

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W7225453013

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Cites: 21

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