Sustainable development? Salmon aquaculture and late modernity in the archipelago of Chiloé, Chile

Chiloé is an archipelago that has, since the 1980s, become one of the motors of the Chilean economy. Salmon aquaculture swiftly transformed the tradition of isolation and poverty that had defined the local identity and livelihoods. This is now changing due to the rapid experience of modernity. This modernity is driven by transnational capital and largescale state intervention in the promotion of salmon aquaculture and its current central role in...