Abstract

Recent literature on commodity frontiers and resource-based economies has reopened the debate surrounding the effects of extractive economies on people’s connection to a political system that sustains predominant modes of production. However, the debate has focused on struggles and broader political tensions between social movements and private companies or the State. The present article adopts a different approach, reflecting on the emergence of distinct forms of citizenship in rural territories. Through examining the salmon industry in the Los Lagos region of Chile, I identify connections between commodity production, place-based identity politics, and citizenship performance. I argue that the concept of rural citizenship understood here as the set of practices of relationship with the State grounded in a rural sense of belonging and assessment of the place rural areas have in the frontier project is central to understanding political participation in commodity regions and is informed by the trialectic relationship between place identity, commodity production, and the democratic institutions in place. The article concludes with an invitation for further research into frontier politics from a commodity perspective.

摘要

最近有关商品边界和资源型经济的文献重新展开了围绕采掘性经济对人们与维持主要生产方式的政治体系的联系的辩论。但是，辩论的焦点是社会运动与私人公司或国家之间的斗争和更广泛的政治紧张局势。本文采用了不同的方法，反映了农村地区独特形式的公民身份的出现。通过检查智利洛斯拉各斯地区的鲑鱼产业，我确定了商品生产，基于场所的身份政治和公民身份表现之间的联系。我认为，这里所说的“农村公民身份”概念是基于农村归属感的一套与国家的关系实践，对农村地区在前沿项目中的位置进行评估对于理解商品地区的政治参与至关重要，并且是地方身份，商品生产和地方民主机构之间的关系，就可以了解到这一点。本文结尾邀请从商品的角度进一步研究边境政治。