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Palabras claves
Extractivismo. Sufrimiento ambiental. Ética del cuidado. Capital social.
Summary
The Chilean miner extractivism has generated, as working results, a degradation in the
lands and an environmental pain by the people who lives near these places, because of the
conditioning in their daily life. In this context, their inhabitants live without hope,
certainties and confusion due to the effects of the miner pollution in their places and bodies.
This sensation goes by the hand of feeling of abandonment by the government institutions
to solve and punish the responsible by this environmental damage.
Since the ecofeminism approaches is said that the environmental affected lands,
women are the protagonist in ask for geographical justice because women takes care ill and
dependant people.
According to this. The goal of this investigation is established how women are able
to joint and to coordinate collectively in Chañaral, to face the permanent pollution situation
that is given by the miner tailings in the bay.
Two groups of women are selected to make this investigation: the first is composed
by social leaders who have made actions to face the pollution situation in representation of
social groups are part. The second group is composed by women that cares others like
patients. They have a special knowledge and sensibility concerning the phenomenon, as
they are able to solve by their owns the daily problems.
This paperwork is limited in a qualitative approach, whose product process of
information is made by semi structured interview. The finding gets the importance that the
women collective works in Chañaral to activate a communal support network, yo help them
to solve their daily problems in a place that historically has not been assisted by the state
and has been impacted by the pollution.
However, its important to generate links in these contexts, because of the women of
these places feel difficult to activated social capital network, this difficulty has been seen in
the incapacity to face the pollution effects from a collective approach, becoming in a
endless waiting by the institutionality and the responsible company to improve the life
condition of the people of Chañaral
Key words:
Extractivisim, envieronmental pain. Cares ethics. Social capital