Biblioteca Digital de Vanguardia“…and we’re all going down!” Underground ontologies in conflict in Tierra Amarilla
On November 2013 a massive sinkhole appeared in a terrain near Tierra Amarilla, a small mining town in northern Chile. This event immediately raised the alarms of the local population, given the possible occurrence of new sinkholes directly in the inhabited area of the city. In order to deal with su...
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Universidad Católica del Norte, Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo
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| description | On November 2013 a massive sinkhole appeared in a terrain near Tierra Amarilla, a small mining town in northern Chile. This event immediately raised the alarms of the local population, given the possible occurrence of new sinkholes directly in the inhabited area of the city. In order to deal with such fears, the local mining companies established a task force with representatives of the community, authorities and mining experts. At the center of this task force work was the difficult cohabitation between two contrasting ontologies about the local mining underground, one associating it with risks and ruination and the other with transparency and control. Using science and technology studies (STS) conceptual devices, on this paper the work done by this task force is analyzed as a process through which the first ontology was solely seen as an erroneous understanding of the second one, a “myth” emerging out the local population’s ignorance. Such framing end up producing a closure for the controversy that left untouched the neighbor’s original matters of concern, becoming more an example of a radical equivocation than a perfect application of corporate social responsibility, as it was presented afterwards. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO803172022-03-22T15:04:25Z “…and we’re all going down!” Underground ontologies in conflict in Tierra Amarilla “…y nos vamos a ir toditos para abajo”. Ontologías subterráneas en conflicto en Tierra Amarilla Ureta, Sebastian Contreras, Andrés minería hundimientos ontologías subterráneas equivocación Chile mining sinkholes underground ontologies equivocation Chile On November 2013 a massive sinkhole appeared in a terrain near Tierra Amarilla, a small mining town in northern Chile. This event immediately raised the alarms of the local population, given the possible occurrence of new sinkholes directly in the inhabited area of the city. In order to deal with such fears, the local mining companies established a task force with representatives of the community, authorities and mining experts. At the center of this task force work was the difficult cohabitation between two contrasting ontologies about the local mining underground, one associating it with risks and ruination and the other with transparency and control. Using science and technology studies (STS) conceptual devices, on this paper the work done by this task force is analyzed as a process through which the first ontology was solely seen as an erroneous understanding of the second one, a “myth” emerging out the local population’s ignorance. Such framing end up producing a closure for the controversy that left untouched the neighbor’s original matters of concern, becoming more an example of a radical equivocation than a perfect application of corporate social responsibility, as it was presented afterwards. En noviembre de 2013, ocurrió un gran hundimiento de terreno cerca de Tierra Amarilla, una ciudad minera del norte de Chile. Este evento causó alarma inmediata entre la población local, debido a la posibilidad de nuevos hundimientos directamente bajo sus casas. Para abordar esta inquietud, compañías mineras locales establecieron una mesa de trabajo con representantes de la comunidad, autoridades y expertos en minería. Al centro del trabajo de esta mesa estuvo la difícil convivencia entre dos ontologías contrastantes respecto al subsuelo minero de la zona, una asociada con riesgos y ruinas, la otra con transparencia y control. Usando herramientas conceptuales de los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología (CTS), en el presente artículo esta mesa de trabajo será analizada como un proceso enfocado en transformar esta primera ontología meramente en una creencia errónea, un “mito” derivado de la ignorancia de la población local. Pese a que esta mesa ha sido celebrada como la aplicación perfecta de los principios de responsabilidad social en el sector minero, este artículo concluye que tal éxito es solamente un ejercicio de equivocación que poco ha hecho por lidiar con las inquietudes iniciales de la población de Tierra Amarilla. 2021-01-06 2022-03-22T15:04:25Z 2022-03-22T15:04:25Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://revistas.ucn.cl/index.php/estudios-atacamenos/article/view/3317 10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2020-0055 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/80317 spa http://revistas.ucn.cl/index.php/estudios-atacamenos/article/view/3317/3680 Derechos de autor 2021 Sebastian Ureta, Andrés Contreras http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf Universidad Católica del Norte, Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo Estudios Atacameños; No. 66 (2020); 367-386 Estudios Atacameños (En línea); Núm. 66 (2020); 367-386 0718-1043 0716-0925 |
| spellingShingle | minería hundimientos ontologías subterráneas equivocación Chile mining sinkholes underground ontologies equivocation Chile Ureta, Sebastian Contreras, Andrés “…and we’re all going down!” Underground ontologies in conflict in Tierra Amarilla |
| title | “…and we’re all going down!” Underground ontologies in conflict in Tierra Amarilla |
| title_full | “…and we’re all going down!” Underground ontologies in conflict in Tierra Amarilla |
| title_fullStr | “…and we’re all going down!” Underground ontologies in conflict in Tierra Amarilla |
| title_full_unstemmed | “…and we’re all going down!” Underground ontologies in conflict in Tierra Amarilla |
| title_short | “…and we’re all going down!” Underground ontologies in conflict in Tierra Amarilla |
| title_sort | “…and we’re all going down!” underground ontologies in conflict in tierra amarilla |
| topic | minería hundimientos ontologías subterráneas equivocación Chile mining sinkholes underground ontologies equivocation Chile |
| url | http://revistas.ucn.cl/index.php/estudios-atacamenos/article/view/3317 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/80317 |