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SUMMARY:'Values\, de/coloniality and the more-than-human world in Chile's 
 uprising and constituent process'. - Rogelio Luque-Lora\, Geography Depart
 ment\, Cambridge
DTSTART:20211112T130000Z
DTEND:20211112T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Since October 2019\, Chile has experienced the highe
 st levels of social mobilisation and political reform in decades. The core
  demands made by these movements appear to be centred on human issues (ine
 quality\, education\, healthcare\, pensions) while paying little attention
  to other animals\, plants and their environments. By drawing on forty-one
  interviews and seven months of participant observation\, this talk identi
 fies several ways in which human collectives have sought to expand the sco
 pe of the uprising and constituent process to include more-than-human enti
 ties and processes. In many instances\, the more-than-human is relevant to
  the uprising for human-centred reasons – because it has an impact on hu
 man interests and wellbeing. In others\, the interests of other-than-human
  beings have been defended by diverse human collectives. The most visible 
 of these latter processes is the ongoing campaign\, often linked to Indige
 nous views and values\, to include the so-called rights of nature in the n
 ew Constitution\; I question the conceptual coherence and intercultural ju
 stice of this proposal\, and suggest an alternative based on the collectiv
 e right of humans to defend the more-than-human. Throughout the presentati
 on\, I consider how differences in the values of the various social and po
 litical actors tend to follow the contours of their geographies\, identiti
 es and ethnicities. With this in mind\, I end by analysing the opportuniti
 es offered by the constituent process to decolonize Chilean institutions a
 nd turn Chile into a plurinational country.
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