Bude uncommon: extractivist endings and the unthinkable politics of conservation in Lafkenche territory

Tubul-Raqui, in the Lafkenche territory of Arauco, southern Chile, is a wetland for conservation scientists and state officials, but a bude for Lafkenche people. Wetland and bude sometimes coincide, but they are also radically divergent. This paper, a collaboration between two scholars and a Lafkenc...

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Autores principales:	Manuel Tironi, Denisse Vega, Juan Roa Antileo
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Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Materias:	conservation decolonization extinction indigenous politics chile Technology (General) T1-995 Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:347342fc76f0429d9f72e9b5e57f5da82021-12-01T14:41:00ZBude uncommon: extractivist endings and the unthinkable politics of conservation in Lafkenche territory2572-986110.1080/25729861.2021.1984639https://doaj.org/article/347342fc76f0429d9f72e9b5e57f5da82021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2021.1984639https://doaj.org/toc/2572-9861Tubul-Raqui, in the Lafkenche territory of Arauco, southern Chile, is a wetland for conservation scientists and state officials, but a bude for Lafkenche people. Wetland and bude sometimes coincide, but they are also radically divergent. This paper, a collaboration between two scholars and a Lafkenche longko, is about the existential and political consequences of this disjuncture for Lafkenche life projects and struggles for self-determination. By chronicling two recent events in Tubul-Raqui – the implementation of a sustainable plan for wetland conservation and the 2010 tsunami – we argue that liberal conservation programs under the rubric of “sustainability,” or what we call convivial conservation, only reinforce Indigenous disspossesion and extenuates Lafkenche lives. We show, as well, that the decolonization of conservation entails accounting for the plural meanings, practices, and temporalities of extinction – since death in Tubul-Raqui was not brought by the tsunami but by the extreme latency of extractivism, or what we call extractivist endings. We conclude by reflecting on the political trap faced by Lafkenche communities in Tubul-Raqui – the impossibilty to save the bude without converting it into a wetland – and to what extent this situation demands for a mode of politics that inhabits at the intersection between the plausible and the unconceivable – or what we call an unthinkable politics.Manuel TironiDenisse VegaJuan Roa AntileoTaylor & Francis Grouparticleconservationdecolonizationextinctionindigenous politicschileTechnology (General)T1-995Social sciences (General)H1-99ENTapuya, Vol 0, Iss 0 (2021)
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description	Tubul-Raqui, in the Lafkenche territory of Arauco, southern Chile, is a wetland for conservation scientists and state officials, but a bude for Lafkenche people. Wetland and bude sometimes coincide, but they are also radically divergent. This paper, a collaboration between two scholars and a Lafkenche longko, is about the existential and political consequences of this disjuncture for Lafkenche life projects and struggles for self-determination. By chronicling two recent events in Tubul-Raqui – the implementation of a sustainable plan for wetland conservation and the 2010 tsunami – we argue that liberal conservation programs under the rubric of “sustainability,” or what we call convivial conservation, only reinforce Indigenous disspossesion and extenuates Lafkenche lives. We show, as well, that the decolonization of conservation entails accounting for the plural meanings, practices, and temporalities of extinction – since death in Tubul-Raqui was not brought by the tsunami but by the extreme latency of extractivism, or what we call extractivist endings. We conclude by reflecting on the political trap faced by Lafkenche communities in Tubul-Raqui – the impossibilty to save the bude without converting it into a wetland – and to what extent this situation demands for a mode of politics that inhabits at the intersection between the plausible and the unconceivable – or what we call an unthinkable politics.
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title	Bude uncommon: extractivist endings and the unthinkable politics of conservation in Lafkenche territory
title_short	Bude uncommon: extractivist endings and the unthinkable politics of conservation in Lafkenche territory
title_full	Bude uncommon: extractivist endings and the unthinkable politics of conservation in Lafkenche territory
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Bude uncommon: extractivist endings and the unthinkable politics of conservation in Lafkenche territory

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