Appropriating "modernization" – indigenous anti-hegemonic resistance in the Argentine Chaco
The incorporation of indigenous territories into the Argentine Republic must be considered as a complex process of colonization which encompassed space, the word and the body. It enabled the dominant settler society to establish socioeconomic and sociocultural hegemony. The example of the Toba commu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/69/183/2014/gh-69-183-2014.pdf |
| Summary: | The incorporation of indigenous territories into the Argentine Republic must
be considered as a complex process of colonization which encompassed space,
the word and the body. It enabled the dominant settler society to establish
socioeconomic and sociocultural hegemony. The example of the Toba
community in Clorinda elucidates the extent to which hegemonic worldviews
have infiltrated their self-perception and produced the <i>barrio</i> (urban district)
and the <i>campo</i> (rural area), as two places infiltrated with symbolisms and
ideology. Through a postcolonial perspective, this article aims to examine
the way the community deals with this "modernization", as the Toba
themselves call the process. It is pointed out that, by appropriating the
hegemony's logic, the Toba actively create spaces of resistance in order to
maintain or regain self-determination. Discussing indigenous alternative
concepts of modernity, this article advocates a greater consideration of
those diverse social realities in the scope of Western development
geography. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |