Abstract
AbstractThis chapter elaborates conceptual and theoretical insights to advance a conflict- and power-oriented perspective for a critical conceptualization of environmental communication. To this purpose, the chapter develops and builds upon insights from the anthropology of power and the epistemologies of the South. Within this context, the chapter focuses on the theoretical contributions of Paulo Freire and Eric Wolf to critically approach the relations between communication, power, and conflicts within social-ecological relations. Empirically, the chapter offers an analysis of struggles for water justice and water democracy in Chile which is based on interviews, observations, and analysis of documents conducted during fieldwork in three regions and rural areas of Chile. The chapter argues for a critical theorizing of environmental communication to better understand and explain the meanings of normative views of environmental communication, and to also understand how such normative views cannot be separated from the interests of subjects situated in contingent social-ecological relations and conflicts.
Highlights
IntroductionThis second form of resistance is represented by agroecological movements in the region, which have confronted the water crisis by elaborating and implementing agroecological systems that allow less water-intensive agriculture and the use of species that consume less water (Interviews and observations in the Ñuble Region, December 2019)
This chapter aims at advancing a conflict- and power-oriented conceptualization of environmental communication to analyze and explain struggles for water justice in Chile
By drawing insights from Paulo Freire, Eric Wolf, the contemporary anthropology of power, and the epistemologies of the South, I have attempted to forge some conceptual links between environmental communication and anthropology
Summary
This second form of resistance is represented by agroecological movements in the region, which have confronted the water crisis by elaborating and implementing agroecological systems that allow less water-intensive agriculture and the use of species that consume less water (Interviews and observations in the Ñuble Region, December 2019) When these water conflicts are taken together, the material and communicative articulation of popular movements defending water resources and demanding rights to water use reveal themselves to be a distinctive aspect of the struggles for water justice in Chile. I would argue that this provides important grounds for empirically deepening a critical analysis of environmental communication in these water conflicts
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