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In southern Chile, the forest serves as a catalyst for the extractive economy’s encroachment on the Mapuche Indigenous cultural ecosystem—both human and plant-based. Through encounters with the Lafkenche community, their botanical knowledge, and the paper-pulp tree cloning laboratories, three interwoven photographic investigations reaffirm the urgency of adopting a cross-cutting and embodied perspective on the struggle for biodiversity.
In southern Chile, the temperate rainforests of Araucanía have gradually been replaced by monocultures of pine or eucalyptus trees produced through large-scale cloning, in order to develop the pulp and paper industry. The Mapuche (“People of the Land”) lived there long before the country was founded. Today, they are fighting to preserve biodiversity, particularly medicinal plants, as the exploitation and trafficking of resources spark violence between nationalist organizations, private militias hired by industrialists, and the army’s special anti-terrorist forces. Two worldviews clash: one based on the free-market economy, the other viewing the relationship with the environment as a spiritual matter. Ritual Inhabitual’s photographic investigation thus reveals the ecological and political consequences of monoculture forestry and opens a debate on our consumption; photos in black-and-white and color.
Published by Actes sud, 2022
27.5 cm 22.5 cm, 200 pages, like new
ISBN 9782330166915
In southern Chile, the forest serves as a catalyst for the extractive economy’s encroachment on the Mapuche Indigenous cultural ecosystem—both human and plant-based. Through encounters with the Lafkenche community, their botanical knowledge, and the paper-pulp tree cloning laboratories, three interwoven photographic investigations reaffirm the urgency of adopting a cross-cutting and embodied perspective on the struggle for biodiversity.
In southern Chile, the temperate rainforests of Araucanía have gradually been replaced by monocultures of pine or eucalyptus trees produced through large-scale cloning, in order to develop the pulp and paper industry. The Mapuche (“People of the Land”) lived there long before the country was founded. Today, they are fighting to preserve biodiversity, particularly medicinal plants, as the exploitation and trafficking of resources spark violence between nationalist organizations, private militias hired by industrialists, and the army’s special anti-terrorist forces. Two worldviews clash: one based on the free-market economy, the other viewing the relationship with the environment as a spiritual matter. Ritual Inhabitual’s photographic investigation thus reveals the ecological and political consequences of monoculture forestry and opens a debate on our consumption; photos in black-and-white and color.
Published by Actes sud, 2022
27.5 cm 22.5 cm, 200 pages, like new
ISBN 9782330166915
