Sentient lands : indigeneity, property, and political imagination in neoliberal Chile
by
 
Di Giminiani, Piergiorgio , autor

Title
Sentient lands : indigeneity, property, and political imagination in neoliberal Chile

Personal Author
Di Giminiani, Piergiorgio , autor

Publication Information
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2018.
 
copyright 2018.

Physical Description
246 páginas : mapa, fotografías en blanco y negro ; 24 x 17 x 2 cm.

General Note
Incluye glosario.

Contents
Part 1. People and land. 1. Historical debts: race, land, and nation building in Southern Chile. 2. Being from the land: place, memory, and experience. 3. Working the land: environmental anxieties, care, and the quest for endurance. 4. Owning the land: entitlement, assimilation, and other dilemmas of property -- Part 2. Land claims. 5. Mapping ancestral land: the power of documents in land claims. 6. Negotiating ancestral land: claimants, bureaucrats, and the realpolitik of sacredness. 7. The future of ancestral land: uncertainties of world making in a reclaimed territory.

ISBN
9780816535521

Abstract
In 1990, when Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year military dictatorship ended, democratic rule returned to Chile. Since then, Indigenous organizations have mobilized to demand restitution of their ancestral territories seized over the past 150 years. Sentient Lands is a historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people’s engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyzes environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and indigeneity to illustrate how land connections are articulated, in both landscape experiences and land claims. Rather than viewing land claims as simply bureaucratic procedures imposed on local understandings and experiences of land connections, Di Giminiani reveals these processes to be disputed practices of world making. Ancestral land formation is set in motion by the entangled principles of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, two very different and sometimes conflicting processes. Indigenous land ontologies are based on a relation between two subjects -land and people- both endowed with sentient abilities. By contrast, legal land ontologies are founded on the principles of property theory, wherein land is an object of possession that can be standardized within a regime of value. Governments also use land claims to domesticate Indigenous geographies into spatial constructs consistent with political and market configurations. Exploring the unexpected effects on political activism and state reparation policies caused by this entanglement of Indigenous and legal land ontologies, Di Giminiani offers a new analytical angle on Indigenous land politics.

Subject Term
Mapuche -- Tenencia de la tierra -- Chile
 
Mapuche -- Chile -- Relaciones gubernamentales
 
Mapuche -- Chile -- Política y gobierno
 
Mapuche -- Situación jurídica -- Chile
 
Mapuche -- Chile -- Condiciones sociales
 
Mapuche -- Chile -- Tenencia de la tierra
 
Reparaciones por injusticias históricas -- Chile

Cover detail
Cubierta ilustrada por una fotografía en colores en la que se ve un campo, con pasto verde, algunos árboles y cielo celeste con nubes. En la parte superior se encuentra el nombre del autor en letras pequeñas de color verde y, más abajo, aparece el título en letras grandes de color café y en letras pequeñas de color verde.

Format
Regular print

Language
English

Publication Date
2018

Cover image
https://www.bcn.cl/catalogo/bib/275636.jpg


LibraryCollectionMaterial TypeShelf NumberCopyStatus
Sede CompañíaMonografíasMonografías323.1(83)(=852.51) D536s 2018c.2En Estante
Sede ValparaísoMonografíasMonografías323.1(83)(=852.51) D536s 2018En Estante