Paper short abstract:

This paper intends to make a contribution to the understanding of the emplacement tensions between conservation projects and local communities centred in the “emplacement temporality” of place.

Paper long abstract:

This paper intends to make a contribution to the understanding of the emplacement tensions between conservation projects and local communities. A focus on temporalities of conservation can provide a broader explanation about the wider context of tensions between peasant and environmentalist perspective and life in nature. In turn, a focus on relation with non-humans and infrastructures on conservation in time can provide a broader attention to practices of conservation in the lived place. The paper analyses a private project of environmental conservation, a case study called "Santuario el Cañi", in the mountains of southern Chile, in the region of Araucanía. The goals of environmental conservation focus in preservation for a future time, and particularly in this case study, look to provide forest for future generations. Instead, the old relations in the mountain are in an "emplacement temporality" by means of the traditional peasantry practices of movement through landscape and the situated knowledge about changes in the environment. The use of fruits (piñon) of old trees "Araucária" and cattle grazing is related with change of season and treads in the internal dynamics of landscape. Conservation intensions attach environments to a desirable state of relation. In practice, there appear negotiating processes among humans, animals, trees and fences, which in the every day life, stress the conservation proposition about creation of futures environments. The process of life in the place reveals a deeper understanding of conservation as emplaced temporalities in ongoing dispute situated in the footsteps of the mountain.