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DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the history of the environmental clauses in 
 Chile’s constitution.  That constitution was imposed at gunpoint by the Pin
 ochet dictatorship and has been widely assailed for preserving the “guardra
 ils” of Chile’s neoliberal economic model.  Surprisingly\, the 1980 constit
 ution\, designed in a secretive and anti-democratic process by conservative
  legal scholars and politicians\, included surprisingly innovative language
  on environmental rights.  And\, as this paper demonstrates\, this language
  was not toothless.  It established the basis for two landmark legal cases 
 in the Supreme Court over water and water rights while Chile was still rule
 d by Pinochet during the 1980s. These cases signified major victories for C
 hile’s robust environmentalist and indigenous rights movements.\n\n \n\nTho
 mas Klubock is John C. Coleman Professor of History\, University of Virgini
 a.  He is the author of three books on Chile\, Ránquil: Rural Rebellion\, P
 olitical Violence\, and Historical Memory in Chile\, La Frontera: Forests a
 nd Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory\, Contested Communitie
 s: Class\, Gender\, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine\, 1904-
 1951\, and a co-editor of The Chile Reader: History\, Culture\, Politics.
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SUMMARY:Putting the Environment into Law: Chile’s 1980 Constitution and the
  Rise of Environmentalism during the Free-Market “Silent Revolution\,” 1970
 s and 1980s
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/waste-workers-and-water-wars-in-chile-
 writing-the-labor-and-environmental-history-of-chiles-rivers
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