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X-WR-CALNAME:Putting the Environment into Law: Chile’s 1980 Constitution 
 and the Rise of Environmentalism during the Free-Market “Silent Revoluti
 on\,” 1970s and 1980s
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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 
 Pinochet dictatorship and has been widely assailed for preserving the “g
 uardrails” of Chile’s neoliberal economic model.  Surprisingly\, the 1
 980 constitution\, designed in a secretive and anti-democratic process by 
 conservative legal scholars and politicians\, included surprisingly innova
 tive language on environmental rights.  And\, as this paper demonstrates\,
  this language was not toothless.  It established the basis for two landma
 rk legal cases in the Supreme Court over water and water rights while Chil
 e was still ruled by Pinochet during the 1980s. These cases signified majo
 r victories for Chile’s robust environmentalist and indigenous rights mo
 vements.\n\n \n\nThomas Klubock is John C. Coleman Professor of History\, 
 University of Virginia.  He is the author of three books on Chile\, Ránqu
 il: Rural Rebellion\, Political Violence\, and Historical Memory in Chile\
 , La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Terri
 tory\, Contested Communities: Class\, Gender\, and Politics in Chile’s E
 l Teniente Copper Mine\, 1904-1951\, and a co-editor of The Chile Reader: 
 History\, Culture\, Politics.
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LOCATION:Uris Hall\, G08
SUMMARY:Putting the Environment into Law: Chile’s 1980 Constitution and t
 he Rise of Environmentalism during the Free-Market “Silent Revolution\,
 ” 1970s and 1980s
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