https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n52.10
Esteban Hernán Rodríguez
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3756-7049
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
estebanhrodriguez@hotmail.com
Gabriela Klier
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6543-9717
Universidad Nacional de Río Negro/Conicet, Argentina
grklier@unrn.edu.ar
Abstract:
In this study, based on ethnographic fieldwork, we analyze a series of images produced to resist the advance of real-estate extractivism on the Hudson coast, in the Berazategui district—Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. Considering social, historical, political, and cultural processes, we approach the images from the campaign “Know to Defend: Biodiversity on the Hudson Coast” not merely as a record of a endangered nature, but as a means to elucidate how nature is seen, understood, and represented in images. We also examine the implications of those images and the ways of seeing, beyond the producers’ interests. Then, we focus on the reappropriations allowing those images to be compatible with the advancement of private real-estate development. We conclude by emphasizing the need to blow up certain images and ways of seeing in order to prevent the depoliticization of claims. Finally, we ask what other images we can create.
Keywords: images of nature, ways of seeing, knowing to defend, environmental issues, real-estate extractivism, Guillermo Enrique Hudson.
