ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the context in which Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-Chile emerged, in terms of what Anna Tsing has called 'friction': "emergent cultural forms-including forest destruction and environmental advocacy-are persistent but unpredictable effects of global encounters across difference". According to the two international sustainability consultants the author met for coffee, according to every timber company forester he spoke with, according to the environmentalists, Chilean timber producers are not seeing a price premium for certified wood. He begins his catalog of subject positions with the consumer in order to paint a picture of the global web of commerce that connects growing trees with distributors and vendors of branded sustainable products. The legal and customary rights of indigenous peoples to own, use and manage their lands, territories, and resources shall be recognized and respected. The chapter discusses, timber companies and environmentalists alike, appeared to be comfortable with the idea that the limits of Mapuche territory lay where the state had drawn them.
