Aboriginal conceptions of the forest in the soy era: frontiers of deforestation in the Argentine Chaco

摘要

The Argentine Chaco, a subtropical forest region, has been subjected to crippling deforestation. At this juncture of accelerated extractivism and agricultural encroachment on forests, contradictions emerge from contested land rights and exploitative, informal, capital-labour relations involving aboriginal people. This paper reviews key interactions between these macro and micro economic trends and aboriginal engagements with these brisk transformative processes that intrinsically challenge simplistic notions of sustainability.