We analyse forestry extractivism in southern Chile through the lens of emotional political ecology to show how emotions are embedded in strategies of capital accumulation. We argue that the state and private companies produce and manage the suffering experienced by Mapuche communities while simultaneously promoting mechanisms that alleviate- superficially- its effects in order to perpetuate the extractive model. The article argues that contemporary extractivism is also an emotional project that reproduces and renews colonial relations in Indigenous territories.
Journal of Latin American Geography