ABSTRACT
Thirty years into the neoliberal regime that turned the Los Lagos region into a salmon aquaculture frontier in Chile, a set of ecological contradictions have reconfigured the landscape and people's relationship with it. This chapter explores how the institutional solutions implemented to sustain the salmon aquaculture production and industry through two significant crises, one sanitary (2008) and one ecological (2016), engendered new types of citizenship, characterized by disenfranchisement, fragmentation, and conditioning. By reviewing the various coping strategies used by locals, the chapter examines how, in frontier regions, the relationship between resource making and citizenship practices enables continuity of salmon production and generates new relationship dynamics between the state and rural dwellers.
