RITUAL INHABITUAL : Geometric Forests ; Struggles in Mapuche Territory - González García Tito, Grisanti Florencia
In southern Chile, the forest is the catalyst for the extractivist economy's assault on the Mapuche indigenous culture, both human and plant. Through encounters with the Lafkenche community and their botanical knowledge, as well as with paper tree cloning laboratories, three photographic surveys reaffirm the urgency of adopting a transversal and embodied reading of the fight for biodiversity.
In southern Chile, the temperate rainforests of Araucania have been gradually replaced by monocultures of pine and eucalyptus, the result of massive cloning to develop the pulp and paper industry. The Mapuche ("People of the Land") lived here long before the country was founded. Today, they fight to preserve biodiversity, particularly medicinal plants, while the exploitation and trafficking of resources provoke violence between nationalist organizations, the private militias of industrialists and the army's special anti-terrorist forces. Two visions of the world clash: one based on free-market economics, the other making the relationship with the environment a spiritual issue. Ritual Inhabitual's photographic investigation reveals the ecological and political consequences of monoculture forestry, and opens a debate on our consumption; b&w and color photos.
Published by Actes sud, 2022
27.5 cm × 22.5 cm, 200 pages, new
ISBN: 9782330166915
In southern Chile, the forest is the catalyst for the extractivist economy's assault on the Mapuche indigenous culture, both human and plant. Through encounters with the Lafkenche community and their botanical knowledge, as well as with paper tree cloning laboratories, three photographic surveys reaffirm the urgency of adopting a transversal and embodied reading of the fight for biodiversity.
In southern Chile, the temperate rainforests of Araucania have been gradually replaced by monocultures of pine and eucalyptus, the result of massive cloning to develop the pulp and paper industry. The Mapuche ("People of the Land") lived here long before the country was founded. Today, they fight to preserve biodiversity, particularly medicinal plants, while the exploitation and trafficking of resources provoke violence between nationalist organizations, the private militias of industrialists and the army's special anti-terrorist forces. Two visions of the world clash: one based on free-market economics, the other making the relationship with the environment a spiritual issue. Ritual Inhabitual's photographic investigation reveals the ecological and political consequences of monoculture forestry, and opens a debate on our consumption; b&w and color photos.
Published by Actes sud, 2022
27.5 cm × 22.5 cm, 200 pages, new
ISBN: 9782330166915
In southern Chile, the forest is the catalyst for the extractivist economy's assault on the Mapuche indigenous culture, both human and plant. Through encounters with the Lafkenche community and their botanical knowledge, as well as with paper tree cloning laboratories, three photographic surveys reaffirm the urgency of adopting a transversal and embodied reading of the fight for biodiversity.
In southern Chile, the temperate rainforests of Araucania have been gradually replaced by monocultures of pine and eucalyptus, the result of massive cloning to develop the pulp and paper industry. The Mapuche ("People of the Land") lived here long before the country was founded. Today, they fight to preserve biodiversity, particularly medicinal plants, while the exploitation and trafficking of resources provoke violence between nationalist organizations, the private militias of industrialists and the army's special anti-terrorist forces. Two visions of the world clash: one based on free-market economics, the other making the relationship with the environment a spiritual issue. Ritual Inhabitual's photographic investigation reveals the ecological and political consequences of monoculture forestry, and opens a debate on our consumption; b&w and color photos.
Published by Actes sud, 2022
27.5 cm × 22.5 cm, 200 pages, new
ISBN: 9782330166915
