The Limits of Care

Abstract Drawing on the experiences of caring in agriculture and forestry among Mapuche landholders Chile, this article advances a definition care as an act relating intervening mutual articulations vitality. Caring for nonhumans entails reflexive awareness ontological ethical limits human care, made visible by nonhumans’ potentials to respond our actions affect us. Reflections foster attentiveness conditions responsible ability enchantment, term that Bennett’s proposal concerns singularness surprising character life. First, characterizes intentional action targeting dependent nonhumans, such crops. Second, it illustrates recalcitrance some case forests Indigenous southern Chile. Third, shows how emerges from aspirations concerns, those at core engagements with cultural reclamation conservation.