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