Contested mobilities in the maritory: Implications of boundary formation in a nomadic space

José Barrena, Alberto Harambour, Machiel Lamers and Simon R Bush
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José Barrena: Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Department of Natural Sciences and Technology, Universidad de Aysén, Chile, Research Center Dynamics of High Latitude Marine Ecosystems, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile, Center of Environmental Studies, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile
Alberto Harambour: Institute of History and Social Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile, Research Center Dynamics of High Latitude Marine Ecosystems, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile

Environment and Planning C, 2022, vol. 40, issue 1, 221-240

Abstract: The mobility of nomadic Indigenous people has been systematically constrained over time by states seeking control over peripheral spaces and people. This is evident in the case of the Kawésqar nomadic ‘people of the sea’ who have been subject to a century of attempts by the Chilean state to spatially fix their movements over both their terrestrial territories and marine ‘maritories’. In this paper, we show how Indigenous groups like the Kawésqar can challenge and even regain partial control over their maritory by using spatial instruments of the state. We argue that by using these instruments to remobilise, the Kawésqar have been empowered to demobilise other groups and marine related sectors, such as aquaculture. These findings can reorient public policy to be more sensitive to Indigenous space and mobility. Instead of focusing exclusively on the establishment of spatial boundaries to exclude Indigenous communities, they can be used as a means of empowering these communities to exert control over actors and sectors seeking to limit their mobility.

Keywords: Protected areas; nomadism; spatial claims; marine territorialisation; Patagonia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/23996544211016866

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