¡No en mi patio trasero!: el caso de la comunidad ecológica de Peñalolén

Since the early stages of its transition, Chile has found itself caught up in a spiral that has manifested in the declining participation of citizens in the political sphere. Collective action of organized groups, created in the last stages of the military dictatorship, decayed gradually, leading to a reduced form of collective action. The case here is an example of this partial collective action. The conflict analyzed here is of a territorial nature, in which authorities reach decisions regarding housing solutions that imply the occupation of lands considered by its inhabitants to be an ecological reserve. The conflict bares light on two shortcomings of the Chilean Political System. On the one hand a lack of clarity on the politics of land use; and on the other hand, the emergence of an expression of citizen discontent, wich starts mobilization around concrete objectives. This kind of demostrations are called Nimby.