Neoliberal land reform expropriated Mapuche collective land using tax subsidies to forestry giants

Evidence

Modernisation also entailed the ‘improvement’ and capitalisation of the land. Pinochet promulgated decrees expropriating the Mapuche nation’s collective ownership of land and incorporating ‘vast areas of “undeveloped” native forests in southern Chile into the global economic market’. Rather than laissez-faire, the consolidation of land-ownership in the hands of forestry giants and large land-owners was fostered by tax incentives and subsidies to logging companies. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 354

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The tree/forest material connects to ‘Grafting and Growth: On Trees as Infrastructure’ — here forests enter the global market through expropriation and subsidy rather than natural growth.
• XREF: connects to: Homeownership tax subsidies function as twenty-first-century redlining — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 246; Forests changed from common subsistence resources to private monetized assets via land reform. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 34; Land reforms privatized forest commons to boost farming incentives — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 38

Broader Connections

• Homeownership tax subsidies function as twenty-first-century redlining #expands (0.82) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 246