Papers by Eduardo Letelier
CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa
Por su trayectoria, relevancia económica, social y cultural, la vitivinicultura es una de las act... more Por su trayectoria, relevancia económica, social y cultural, la vitivinicultura es una de las actividades económicas más importantes de la zona central de Chile. Los campesinos participan de este mercado como proveedores de uva vinífera y como productores de vinos de diversas calidades. Ante la elevada concentración del mercado doméstico, el despliegue de prácticas no competitivas por parte de los principales actores y la debilidad regulatoria del Estado, los campesinos han debido implementar diversas estrategias asociativas de mejora, a fin de reducir costos, aumentar calidad y acceder a precios competitivos y a mercados dinámicos. Una de estas estrategias asociativas de mejora, es la certificación de organizaciones de viñateros en comercio justo Fairtrade International. A partir del análisis comparado de cinco estudios de caso, que corresponden al universo de organizaciones de pequeños viticultores certificadas por Fairtrade en Chile, este artículo analiza la diversidad de estrate...
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Within the framework of the global climate crisis and its specific effect of the mega-drought aff... more Within the framework of the global climate crisis and its specific effect of the mega-drought affecting dryland agriculture in the central-southern area of Chile, this study analyzes peasant wineries as a historical and collaborative commons, with traditional and agroecological knowledge and practices, which is organized and represents an important pluriverse for climate resilience. This takes place despite the threat of dispossession and multiple enclosures associated with the advance of industrial-level wineries and corporate forest plantations. The text analyzes the ways that small winegrowers in the Itata and Cauquenes Valleys protect their heritage and income by integrating interdisciplinary contributions from geology (evaluating climate change manifestations in their valleys), social sciences (observing the care and production practices of the wine-growing commons), and law (analyzing possible legal frameworks to develop in this common defense). All these actions are integrate...
Cuadernos de Sociología, Sep 6, 2021
Revista Urbano, 2021
Unlike the private concession model applied in urban zones, rural water sanitation services in Ch... more Unlike the private concession model applied in urban zones, rural water sanitation services in Chile are managed by rural drinking water (RDW) committees or cooperatives, under a community governance model. This article seeks to understand the tensions and conflicts faced by RDW community governance in the peri-urban territories of regional capitals, which are at the frontier of the private drinking water management model. Based on a political ecology and hybrid governance approach, this research proposes the hypothesis that, on facing urban expansion and water scarcity, the neoliberal institutional framework tends to favour drinking water market governance in peri-urban territories. With this aim, and through semi-structured interviews and participatory observation, focusing on three RDW cases located in the peri-urban zone of Talca, this study develops a critical discourse analysis of community managers and government regulators, identifying their perceptions and positions on curr...
Polis, 2020
El presente numero es una coleccion de escritos y casos sobre procesos de comunalizacion economic... more El presente numero es una coleccion de escritos y casos sobre procesos de comunalizacion economica existentes en nuestros territorios. En su conjunto dan cuenta del reconocimiento empirico –y tambien del deseo- que no todas las esferas de la vida economica estan completamente subsumidas a las relaciones y logicas de las relaciones de capital. Esta reflexion se entronca en una amplia tradicion heterodoxa en el pensamiento que algunos llaman “sustantivista”, otros “anti-utilitarista” y mas reci...
Polis (Santiago), 2020
El presente número es una colección de escritos y casos sobre procesos de comunalización
Este artículo se desarrolló en el marco del proyecto Fondecyt Regular N°1190020 "Comunalización y... more Este artículo se desarrolló en el marco del proyecto Fondecyt Regular N°1190020 "Comunalización y Heterogeneidades Económicas: espacio de diálogo en torno a casos en el centro sur de Chile" y Fondecyt de Iniciación: Nº11170232. Participaron como colaboradores en la redacción de este artículo Nelson Varroza Athens e Isidora Troncoso.
International Journal of Social Economics, 2021
PurposeRural drinking water services in Chile are managed by Rural Drinking Water Associations (R... more PurposeRural drinking water services in Chile are managed by Rural Drinking Water Associations (RDWAs) with a community governance model. However, urban growth and a neoliberal institutional setting tend to favor market-style governance, both in terms of territorial planning and drinking water supply, placing stress on the community governance model of RDWA. The authors seek to understand these processes and identify the position of RDWA actors facing socio-territorial and environmental transformations experienced in peri-urban sectors of the city of Talca (Chile).Design/methodology/approachThe authors used georeferenced data, participant and non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews. With these data, the authors analyzed the positions and discourses of water governance actors in relation to socio-territorial transformations in the peri-urban areas of the city, as well as for tensions between community and market governance.FindingsThe authors identified a growth te...
International Journal of Social Economics, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the social economy discourses in four regions of ... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the social economy discourses in four regions of Chile, characterized by their internal economic heterogeneity. Design/methodology/approach Using an intentional sample, semi-structured interviews were applied to 45 key informants from the public sector, universities, consultant enterprises, cooperatives and civil society organizations. Through a content analysis, thematic axes were identified that allowed to characterize and to recognize the narratives that key informants held about their initiatives, experiences or ventures. Findings The results allow us to understand the diversity of discourses and practices about alternative economies, being able to organize them from two axes: the tension between molar and molecular subjectivities; and the tension between reform and transformation (which refers to a transformative type of institutional and socio-material change). These axes propose an interpretative framework that integrates a dive...
Marine Resource Economics, 1998
Environmental Policy and Governance, 2020
Viticulture and wine making are a key part of the socio-ecological landscape of central and south... more Viticulture and wine making are a key part of the socio-ecological landscape of central and south-central Chile. The sector is comprised of both dominant export-oriented companies (oriented to monoculture and agribusiness) and traditional small-scale production (more-or-less locally embedded and community oriented). Since the 1990s, different small-scale viticulture organizations emerged to deal with different challenges imposed by globalisation in a neoliberal institutional setting which favours extractive forms of productions (environmental resource intensive). In this article, we use the Alternative Food Network (AFN) theoretical framework and hybrid gover-nance approach to analyse the governance tensions in five small-scale viticulture organisations from Marga-Marga, Lontué and Itata valleys. Using interviews and social cartography as methods, the study shows how the territorial strategies of AFNs shape governance tensions on three dimensions: geographic space, environmental resources and human relations. Finally, the article proposes a conceptual framework to understand the relationship between scalar dynamics and the socio-environmental core values, strategic objectives and societal missions of AFNs. K E Y W O R D S alternative food networks, hybrid governance, territoriality, viticulture, wine making
En el marco del proyecto de investigacion Cartografias de Economias Heterogeneas (Fondecyt N.° 1.... more En el marco del proyecto de investigacion Cartografias de Economias Heterogeneas (Fondecyt N.° 1.160.186), se desarrollo un analisis de los discursos sobre lo alternativo en las economias del centro-sur de Chile. Utilizando una muestra intencional, se aplicaron 45 entrevistas semiestructuradas a informantes claves (sector publico, universidades, cooperativas y organizaciones de la sociedad civil). Mediante un analisis de contenido, se identificaron ejes tematicos que permitieron, por un lado, caracterizar las iniciativas, experiencias o emprendimientos y, por otro lado, reconocer las narrativas que los informantes claves sostenian sobre las economias alternativas. Los resultados permiten comprender y reconocer la diversidad de discursos y practicas sobre las economias alternativas. Estos se pueden ordenar a partir de dos ejes: (1) la tension entre subjetividades molares y moleculares; y (2) la tension entre reforma y transformacion, que se refiere a un tipo de cambio institucional y...
International Journal of Social Economics
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the social economy discourses in four regions of ... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the social economy discourses in four regions of Chile, characterized by their internal economic heterogeneity. Design/methodology/approach Using an intentional sample, semi-structured interviews were applied to 45 key informants from the public sector, universities, consultant enterprises, cooperatives and civil society organizations. Through a content analysis, thematic axes were identified that allowed to characterize and to recognize the narratives that key informants held about their initiatives, experiences or ventures. Findings The results allow us to understand the diversity of discourses and practices about alternative economies, being able to organize them from two axes: the tension between molar and molecular subjectivities; and the tension between reform and transformation (which refers to a transformative type of institutional and socio-material change). These axes propose an interpretative framework that integrates a dive...
Revista Urbano, 2020
Wine production is part of the Chilean landscape. In three valleys, traditional socioecological f... more Wine production is part of the Chilean landscape. In three valleys, traditional socioecological forms of wine production still prevail, practices that represent ways of doing and knowing that question and negotiate with large industry’s processes. Work was made with five organizations in the Marga-Marga, Lontué and Itata valleys, through interviews and social cartography, revealing the socio-territorial conflicts, productive and economic practices of small-scale producers and their market insertion strategies. The sustainability of these experiences looks to recover the taste for local wine, different flavors, ingrained in the conditions of the territories.
This study presents the main results of the project “Economic Evaluation of Climatic Change Impac... more This study presents the main results of the project “Economic Evaluation of Climatic Change Impacts on Water Resources at River Basin Scale”. We evaluate the economic consequences of climate change at river basin scale using a hydroeconomic model, which includes two water demand sectors: residential and agricultural. The main quantitative results are complemented with a qualitative social and vulnerability analysis. According to our results, climate change will have minor overall impacts on the basin economy with large distributional consequences. Moreover, subsistence agricultural communities, seem to be the most vulnerable groups to climate change.
International Journal of Social Economics, 2021
Purpose: Rural drinking water services in Chile are managed by Rural Drinking Water Associations ... more Purpose: Rural drinking water services in Chile are managed by Rural Drinking Water Associations (RDWAs) with a community governance model. However, urban growth and a neoliberal institutional setting tend to favor market-style governance, both in terms of territorial planning and drinking water supply, placing stress on the community governance model of RDWA. The authors seek to understand these processes and identify the position of RDWA actors facing socio-territorial and environmental transformations experienced in peri-urban sectors of the city of Talca (Chile).
Design/methodology/approach: The authors used georeferenced data, participant and non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews. With these data, the authors analyzed the positions and discourses of water governance actors in relation to socio-territorial transformations in the peri-urban areas of the city, as well as for tensions between community and market governance.
Findings: The authors identified a growing tendency of RDWA users around the city of Talca due to a sharp drinking water demand increase in peri-urban territories. As such, the authors describe and contrast RWDA's managers and governmental regulators' discourses regarding environmental and socio-territorial transformations. In these discourses, the authors found three critical topics: (1) land liberalization blurring urban territory borders; (2) Law #20998, a poorly financed reform which raises the specter of RDWA privatization, jeopardizing historic community drinking water management; and (3) the consequences of declining community commitment to RDWAs.
Practical implications: One key implication of these findings is the need to modify RDWA pricing policies to deal with new rural inhabitant lifestyles and drinking water demands and to fulfill water basic needs of rural families, avoiding privatization risks. This change could help not only dealing with growing scarcity during global climate change, but could also provide financial resources to face new technical and administrative requirements of SSR Law.
Originality/value: The originality of the study comes from using a framework of governance tensions applied to water governance in peri-urban areas in a neoliberal institutional setting.
REVESCO. Revista de Estudios Cooperativos
El presente artículo busca dimensionar y caracterizar el sector de la economía social en Chile al... more El presente artículo busca dimensionar y caracterizar el sector de la economía social en Chile al año 2015, adaptando la tipología propuesta por EESC/CIRIEC para Europa. A partir de la sistematización de datos cuantitativos primarios levantados para el estudio, se plantea una visión panorámica comparable con otros países que usan la tipología de EESC/CIRIEC y complementaria a los estudios realizados sobre el subsector no mercantil de la economía social en Chile. De acuerdo a los resultados obtenidos en el estudio, en el año 2015 la economía social en Chile empleó a 313.591 trabajadores remunerados y generó ingresos monetarios por US$8.963 millones. Estas cifras son equivalentes al 3,8 por ciento de la ocupación y del 3,7 por ciento del PIB de Chile, respectivamente, situando al país por debajo del promedio de la Unión Europea y por encima de países de ingreso per cápita comparables como Grecia o Polonia. No obstante, debido a la alta tasa de organizaciones y empresas informales esto...
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Papers by Eduardo Letelier
Design/methodology/approach: The authors used georeferenced data, participant and non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews. With these data, the authors analyzed the positions and discourses of water governance actors in relation to socio-territorial transformations in the peri-urban areas of the city, as well as for tensions between community and market governance.
Findings: The authors identified a growing tendency of RDWA users around the city of Talca due to a sharp drinking water demand increase in peri-urban territories. As such, the authors describe and contrast RWDA's managers and governmental regulators' discourses regarding environmental and socio-territorial transformations. In these discourses, the authors found three critical topics: (1) land liberalization blurring urban territory borders; (2) Law #20998, a poorly financed reform which raises the specter of RDWA privatization, jeopardizing historic community drinking water management; and (3) the consequences of declining community commitment to RDWAs.
Practical implications: One key implication of these findings is the need to modify RDWA pricing policies to deal with new rural inhabitant lifestyles and drinking water demands and to fulfill water basic needs of rural families, avoiding privatization risks. This change could help not only dealing with growing scarcity during global climate change, but could also provide financial resources to face new technical and administrative requirements of SSR Law.
Originality/value: The originality of the study comes from using a framework of governance tensions applied to water governance in peri-urban areas in a neoliberal institutional setting.
Design/methodology/approach: The authors used georeferenced data, participant and non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews. With these data, the authors analyzed the positions and discourses of water governance actors in relation to socio-territorial transformations in the peri-urban areas of the city, as well as for tensions between community and market governance.
Findings: The authors identified a growing tendency of RDWA users around the city of Talca due to a sharp drinking water demand increase in peri-urban territories. As such, the authors describe and contrast RWDA's managers and governmental regulators' discourses regarding environmental and socio-territorial transformations. In these discourses, the authors found three critical topics: (1) land liberalization blurring urban territory borders; (2) Law #20998, a poorly financed reform which raises the specter of RDWA privatization, jeopardizing historic community drinking water management; and (3) the consequences of declining community commitment to RDWAs.
Practical implications: One key implication of these findings is the need to modify RDWA pricing policies to deal with new rural inhabitant lifestyles and drinking water demands and to fulfill water basic needs of rural families, avoiding privatization risks. This change could help not only dealing with growing scarcity during global climate change, but could also provide financial resources to face new technical and administrative requirements of SSR Law.
Originality/value: The originality of the study comes from using a framework of governance tensions applied to water governance in peri-urban areas in a neoliberal institutional setting.