Political spaces of glocalisation

Political spaces of glocalisation: An analysis of political actors and practices in the forestry and salmon aquaculture sectors and their influence in socio­spatial transformations in Southern Chile. From the debate on linkages between globalisation and local development and their impacts on shaping spatial relationships, a scalar perspective focused on power relationships is chosen to pose an approach based in analysis of actors and their practices deployed to control political agendas around economic a ctivities related to transnational commodity chains. ?Political spaces? is proposed as an analytical framework that incorporates scalar concerns treated under the definition of glocalisation. In it, decisions taken by actors in order to influence to the rest to their profit mean changes on future power relationships, but also in socio-spatial configuration. The goal is the development of a theoretical approach around the concept of political spaces in order to analyse socio-spatial transformations that derive from practices deployed to influence and control the political agendas of the forestry and salmon aquaculture sectors located in Southern Chile. These cases have been selected by their relevance to the Chilean economy, by its orientation to exports , because the several conflicts between different actors, and both cases offers interesting differences between their power structures. The notion of political spaces points to a comprehension of relational contexts. In it, actors can find resources and obstacles to control a political agenda in specific productive sectors. By this approach is expected to contribute to the discussion on links across different scales and impacts on regional development, focusing on governance processes that may orientate policies for a more equitable development by grounding more production value at local scales.