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Ownership and governance: legitimizing exploitation rights

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  • Álvaro Román Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo Regional y Políticas Públicas, Universidad de Los Lagos, Osorno, Chile.
  • Cecilia Campero School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canadá. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5602-6734
No. 59 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2020.57032

Abstract

One way to know the state of the relationship between a society and space is by examining its ownership rights. From them, the network of relationships and hierarchies between social groups, as well as the role they give to the environment in which they operate, can be accessed. This article proposes a critical review of this relationship, one in which the individual and anthropic character of the ownership has not been questioned. Based on semi- structured interviews and literature review, it is suggested that the demands of sectors usually affected by this form of social relationship seek to guarantee their right to use resources under market paradigms. Thus, it is interesting that the new institutional arrangements that allow their integration replicates the same effects of dispossession and exclusion. In this way, corrective measures reinforce the individual and anthropic character of ownership, which gains a basal legitimacy. As a result, the allocation of rights, the definition of priority groups and political decisions are faced with increasingly fragmented action, extending exclusion to increasingly marginalized groups, as well as risking the availability of the resources thus distributed.

Keywords:

Explotation, governance, natural resources, ownership.

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Román, Álvaro, & Campero, C. (2020). Ownership and governance: legitimizing exploitation rights. Investigaciones Geográficas, (59), 6–15. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2020.57032
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