The Sustainability of Life in Feminized Community Work Facing the Environmental Degradation of Territory-Bodies: A Case Study in The Former West Camp of the YPF Oil Company (Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina)
This paper aims to contribute to denaturalizing the socio-environmental consequences of coexisting with extractive activity, based on the analysis of a case study located in Argentina Patagonia resorting to some contributions of ecofeminism. In the first place, we introduce – through a brief histori...
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad
2025
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| Sumario: | This paper aims to contribute to denaturalizing the socio-environmental consequences of coexisting with extractive activity, based on the analysis of a case study located in Argentina Patagonia resorting to some contributions of ecofeminism. In the first place, we introduce – through a brief historical review – the territory, a neighborhood that was a former “Ypefiano” oil camp located in the western area of Comodoro Rivadavia (Chubut province). The “Asociación Vecinal”, one of its reference institutions, constitutes the gateway to our ethnographic fieldwork based on collaborative research methodologies. It is also a central institution for the sustainability of life in feminized community work. Secondly, we reconstruct how neighbors refer to the environment – even without knowing it or problematizing it – in relation to the impact on the health of the “territory-body” in their “ecobiographies”. Thirdly, recovering the notion of “socioecological imaginations”, we examine to what extent women’s territorial work constitutes both a response and an alternative to extractivism. Finally, and from the case analyzed, we consider the construction of territories of life in the midst of territories of discomfort. |
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