Perspectivas ambientales en disputa en el conflicto No Alto Maipo y su comunicación como motivos de oposición al PHAM ”. Santiago- Chile

Abstract

It is in the metropolitan area of Santiago de Chile, specifically in “Cajon Del Rio Maipo”, the territory where the “Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project” (PHAM) has been built since 2008. Since that year the Citizen Coordinator of the Maipo Rivers (hereinafter the coordinator) leads a socio-environmental conflict against this project, and warns about the threats to the ecosystem of the River basin and the quality and availability of water for Santiago. In the field of anthropology, as well as in other disciplines, the interest in the ways in which people relate to the environment is not new, from classical ethnography and using tools to know the interaction in virtual social networks, the ways in which the #NoAltoMaipo movement communicated threats from their environmental perspective were analyzed; in which and why has emphasized complaints about the installation of PHAM. This case was and is an invitation to the reflection of human relationships with each other, but above all with nature.