Socio-Territorial Mobilization in Chile in Light of the Analysis of Protest Events, 2008–2020

Research on environmental and socio-territorial mobilization has mostly taken the form of case studies of a specific conflict or mobilization while work taking a national perspective and examining the political implications has been rather scant. To contribute to the study of environmental and territorial policy, this chapter seeks to characterize socio-territorial protest in Chile (2008–2020), its relationship with other types of protest, and its possible specificity and to explain the behavior of this type of protest during the social uprising that began on October 18, 2019. Our hypothesis is that socio-territorial mobilization is a central component of the dynamics that characterized the 2010s, which were termed “the times of politicization” by the United Nations Development Program.