Water as moral substance in Chilean Patagonia

“Water is life” is a key slogan for anti-extractivist movements, particularly in the Americas. In a project that examines a dam conflict in the remote Aysén region of Chilean Patagonia, Professor Carlota McAllister explores how gauchos living in river valleys threatened with damming draw on this substance and the histories of its use on this “last frontier”

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