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- Title
El Estado-sistema frente a la cuestión indígena. Análisis de los modos de reconocimiento de derechos a la identidad huarpe, al agua y a tierras comunales en Mendoza (Argentina).
- Authors
Saldi, Leticia
- Abstract
In a context of acknowledgement of indigenous communities across the entire Argentinian Republic - and by means of an ethnographic study in the center-west of the nation - we analyze the daily work, as well as discourses and representations of the officers of two state institutions of the Mendoza province. One of these is in charge of water management and the other is in charge of the department territory that the Huarpe indigenous community inhabits. The officers of both institutions understand said communities in different ways. The first discredits their current presence and justifies with scientist discourses their refusal to send water provisions. The second acknowledges their rights, although it limits their capacity for collective action based on several contradicting forms of identity questioning. We present that, despite the differences, both adopt feigned forms to acknowledge rights related to autonomy, participation, and access to natural lands, covering private interests and some state authoritarianism.
- Subjects
MENDOZA (Argentina); ARGENTINA; INDIGENOUS peoples of Argentina; GOVERNMENT relations with indigenous peoples; COMMONS; WATER rights; INDIGENOUS rights; HUARPE (South American people); CIVIL rights; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Universitas Humanística, 2016, Vol 82, Issue 82, p191
- ISSN
0120-4807
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11144/Javeriana.uh82.esfc