A historical approach to forest activity in Misiones: from the extractive front to the forestry agribusiness

Authors

  • Delia Ramírez Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Humanos (IESyH/CONICET)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30972/fhn.0302717

Keywords:

Extractive front, forestry-industry, forestry agribusiness

Abstract

The present text arises from an extensive and intense doctoral research that was carried out in the Alto Paraná (Misiones), between 2013 and 2016. It asks about the dynamics - understood in terms of relationships, impacts and consequences - of the progress of the forestry agribusiness in the municipality of Puerto Piray, located in Misiones Alto Paraná. Ethnographic work was carried out in a rural colony called Piray km 18 specifically affected, to the dynamics of the forest agribusiness. This article has the objective of making a historical account of the afforestation process of the Misiones province, understanding that to speak of the forestry history of Misiones is also to refer to the history of the formation and transformation of capitalist processes in Argentina.

Published

2017-11-27

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Section

Artículos