Subjective values and the science of landscape at the service of community discourse

Abstract

In Chile, many participatory and consultative processes in the field of territorial intervention do not respond to determining territorial subjectivities in the way of life of local communities. In the exercise of participation, communities often see their rights to live under local dynamics and shared values violated, which is particularly serious for indigenous communities, since they see their rights enshrined in Convention 169 of the International Humanitarian Organization violated. Labor (ILO), corresponding to the right to live under one's own culture and to binding participation. At the same time, the landscape study of the Environmental Impact Assessment System incorporates citizen participation to identify landscape preferences; The violation is in the tool, which ignores the place attachment of local communities, through a tool that consults outsiders. In this way, the communicative capacity of the landscape is obliterated, to the detriment of the rights of local communities. In this framework, a method is presented to contribute to local communities in their territorial defense, designed under Morin's Theory of Complexity, where there are equivalences with the construction of the landscape, in order to identify objective variables from subjective territorial assessments to build an integration network that captures the various phenomena that make up the landscape. Specifically, the case study focuses on the identification of territorial subjectivities susceptible to objectification present in the community discourse of two groups of South Andean indigenous communities affected by mining projects.