LIFESTYLES
AND MOUNTAIN DWELLING

The mountains of the Southern Andes are characterized by their multiculturalism, where different territorialities are expressed in diverse cosmovisions and experiences: indigenous people (Mapuche, Pehuenche, Huilliche), peasants, settlers, gauchos and new migrants, which make up a heterogeneous and complex biocultural memory.

  • Indigenous, peasant, settler, gaucho and migrant territories
  • Agri-food landscapes and biocultural practices
  • Territorial planning and local development
  • Education
  • Tourism

In this territory, various practices emerge practices The region’s main activities are agriculture, forestry, summer pastures, animal husbandry, and the harvesting of non-timber forest products, along with a growing development associated with tourism. These experiences and practices are articulated in a biocultural landscape of reciprocal relationships between people and living volcanoes, mountains, forests, rivers, springs, volcanic soils and myriads of animals, plants, fungi and different microorganisms that inhabit it.

Various historical and contemporary factors of change associated with colonization, modernization, mercantilization, migration, unplanned urbanization, socio-environmental degradation and global change have triggered accelerated transformations in the ways of inhabiting these territories.

In this way, the Laboratory of Mountain Lifestyles and Inhabitation seeks to understand the particularities of the practices in the Southern Andes, in order to propose management and education models associated with the land use and territorial planning, in order to integrate these attributes into sustainable local development strategies in mountain territories in Chile.

Lines of research

History and territorialities:

  • Archaeology

  • Migration and mobility

  • History

  • Territorialities

  • Biocultural heritage (historical studies)


Biocultural practices
:

  • Productive practices

  • Biocultural landscapes

  • Biocultural heritage (contemporary studies)

Local development and governance:

  • Public policies

  • Planning and land management

  • Management

  • Tourism

Socio-environmental conflicts:

  • Political ecology

  • Territorial conflicts

  • Accumulation by dispossession

Geological Heritage:

  • Rural education

  • Intercultural education

Mineralogy and Petrology:

  • Petrology and Geochemistry of magmatism in convergent margins.

  • Very low grade metamorphism of basic igneous rocks.

  • Mineralogy

  • Geochronology

  • Accretion prism metamorphism

Paleontology and Sedimentology:
  • Interpretation and reconstruction of sedimentary environments
  • Sedimentary basin analysis

  • Distribution and content of fossils in layered rocks

What is the scientific production of theMountain Livelihoods and Habitats Laboratory ?

Between 1982 and 2021, the Mountain Livelihoods and Habitats Laboratory has 201 scientific publications indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and Scielo. The scientific production of this Thematic Laboratory has increased since 2006, reaching the highest number of articles published in 2020.

Who has done research in the Mountain Livelihoods and Habitats Laboratory?

A total of 372 researchers conduct science in this thematic laboratory. The graph shows the main authorships and co-authorships, which are presented on 4 articles indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and Scielo.

What are the main keywords of Mountain Living and Habitats?