Based on ethnographic research among small landholders and state officials, this article show that the institutional production and transference of official knowledge engender practices of monitoring and control through which local environmental knowledge and state actors’ actions are marginalized and the implementation of legal models of natural resource use is made effective. The implementation of a knowledge model based on audit mechanisms constitute a governmental solution to the restructuring of statecraft under neoliberalism, which aims at favoring the inclusion of small landholders within the global marked in accordance with the principle of individual accountability and the consequent financial and ideological contraction of collective social policies.
Di Giminiani, P. (2016). The Other Side of Official Knowledge: Control and Expertise in Neoliberal Environmental Governance. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (33). Retrieved from https://nuevosfoliosbioetica.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/43387
