Discursivas públicas, concepciones territoriales y territorialidades. Miradas sobre el conflicto del Puente Industrial, Chile. 2008-2018

Environmental conflicts are the result of the clash of different ways of territorially conceiving the same space. The so-called Industrial Bridge, located in the Metropolitan Area of Concepción (AMC in Spanish), Chile, is taken as a case study, on being an environmental conflict derived from a central government infrastructure project, which affected a local agricultural space, stressing, activating and reorganizing different community agents, who throughout the conflict, built a dynamic public discourse. The purpose of this article is to look into the trialectic among the social mobilization processes and the magnitude of the space of articulation of its resistance networks, the re-elaboration of their ideas and values so that they define the conflict, and the changes in the territorial conceptions and territorialities they subscribe to. The methodology applied was qualitative and abductive, based on a phenomenological design which, taking the local press as a source, systematically represented and analyzed the public arena of the conflict and the underling territorial conceptions and territorialities in the public discourses of the community agents. The results confirm the trialectic, establishing a positive gradient between the magnitude of the organizational resistance networks, their mobilization of meanings, and the (re)scaling of their territorial conceptions and territorialities, redefining both what was in dispute and its solution. Resumen: Los conflictos ambientales son el resultado del choque de distintas formas de concebir territorialmente un mismo espacio. Se toma como caso de estudio al denominado Puente Industrial, localizado en el Área Metropolitana de Concepción (AMC), Chile, debido a que, siendo un conflicto ambiental derivado de un proyecto de infraestructura del gobierno central, afectó un espacio de agricultura local, tensionando, activando y reorganizando a diversos agentes comunitarios, los cuales a lo largo del conflicto constituyeron un discurso público dinámico. El objetivo de este artículo es adentrarse en la trialéctica entre procesos de movilización social y la magnitud del espacio de articulación de sus redes de resistencia, las reelaboraciones de sus ideas y valores que para ellos definen el conflicto, y los cambios en las concepciones territoriales y territorialidades que suscriben. La metodología aplicada fue cualitativa y abductiva, basada en un diseño fenomenológico que, tomando como fuente la prensa local, representó y a