A Nation Divided: Building the Cross-Border Mapuche Nation in Chile and Argentina

Warren, Sarah

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“…In terms of the opportunities presented by these methodologies from the perspective of the participating locals, they have already been used to de ne territories in Mapuche communities in Chile and Argentina (Hirt 2012;Warren 2013). In the same way, in the case of Laonzana, the community valued the ability to account for the importance and value of local agrarian spaces and the main dangers that affect them over time.…”

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Recording Historical Variations in Agricultural Areas Caused by Landslides and River Floods between 1977 and 2012 through Participatory Mapping in the Foothills of the Atacama Desert, Chile

González-Pacheco

Francos

Corvacho-Ganahin

2023

Environmental Management

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In arid areas, rural communities can be affected by erosive phenomena caused by intense rainfall. By involving such communities in participatory mapping over the last few decades, our ability to analyse the effects of these phenomena has been enhanced. The aim of this study was to evaluate participatory mapping as a tool for spatially analysing agricultural variations caused by erosive phenomena, using local people to identify chronologies of physical events so we could analyse their effects on agriculture. The study was conducted in Laonzana, Tarapacá Valley, in northern Chile. We selected the participants for the participatory mapping using speci c criteria, and carried out eld activities in different phases, which allowed the identi cation, georeferencing and registration (through participatory mapping) of the information collected in the eld and from the collective memories of the participants. Three periods were studied: 1) "before 1977" with 26 sites and covering 234,273 m 2 ; 2) "between 1977 and 2012" with 6 sites and an area of 92,941 m 2 ; and 3) "after 2012' with three sites, covering 29,852 m 2 . This provided evidence for a decrease in the number of productive sites, these being limited to the vicinity of the village. The participatory mapping technique has become a useful tool in desert and mountainous areas with low population densities for recovering experiential information from communities. This participation contributes to the provision of examples for researchers, communities and government agencies to use in arguing for the need for cartographic information.

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Recording Historical Variations in Agricultural Areas Caused by Landslides and River Floods between 1977 and 2012 through Participatory Mapping in the Foothills of the Atacama Desert, Chile

González-Pacheco

Francos

Corvacho-Ganahin

2023

Environmental Management

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“…A significant trend within the sociological literature on collective identity focuses on its role in social movements (Laraña, Johnston, and Gusfield 1994;Melucci 1989;Owens et al 2010;Polletta and Jasper 2001;Turner 1969). However, relatively few sociologists address indigenous movements or indigenous identity more generally (for exceptions, see Golash-Boza 2010; Richards 2004Richards , 2013Warren 2013). One line of research on collective identification focuses on what Christena E. Nippert-Eng (2002) has called "boundary work."…”

Section: A D D I N G a S P A T I A L A N A L Y S I S T O "B O U N D Amentioning

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The Spatiality of Boundary Work: Political-Administrative Borders and Maya-Mam Collective Identification

Gardner

Richards²

2017

Social Problems

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How does the collective identification of indigenous peoples who span contemporary state borders align with and diverge from those borders? This article analyzes how the Mam, an indigenous people divided by the Guatemala-Mexico border, identify collectively. We further existing sociological literature on collective identity "boundary work" by demonstrating how it is shaped by spatial, and not just symbolic, boundaries. Mam individuals and organizations define symbolic boundaries that sustain political-administrative borders (such as municipal divisions within Guatemala and Guatemala's border with Mexico) in some cases and conflict with them in others. We suggest that state borders and collective identification boundaries become incongruous and contested as social contexts shift and conclude that the symbolic struggle of how to identify as a collectivity has material, and potentially spatial, consequences. K E Y W O R D S : boundary work; collective identities; indigenous peoples; Mam; cross-border nations. Social scientists frequently tie societies, cultures, and nations to specific states, failing to articulate conflicting boundaries between some nations and states (Gupta and Ferguson 1992; Lamont and Moln ar 2002; Rosaldo 1989). In fact, many indigenous nations are fragmented-geographically, socially, culturally, and politically-by state borders. Indeed, conceptualizing peoples as nations bounded within state borders is especially problematic for indigenous nations that span state borders (such as the Mapuche across the Chile-Argentina border, the Tohono O'odham across the Mexico-U.S. border, and the Maya-Mam across the Guatemala-Mexico border). These peoples can be characterized as "cross-border nations" (Warren 2013). Struggles to gain recognition as cross-border nations do not typically involve a demand for statehood. Rather, they entail seeking collective rights such as territory and self-determination, consultation and informed consent (on the part of governments from both countries) about projects that will impact their territory and the natural resources therein, and the ability to develop and maintain This research was partially supported by grants from The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute and The Graduate School at The University of Georgia. The authors thank the participants, the leaders of Mam councils in Guatemala and Mexico, A ıda Hern andez, and Ajb'ee Jiménez for helping make this research possible. The authors also thank Pablo Lapegna, Rebecca Hanson, and the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on previous drafts.

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“…Within the province of Neuquén and its neighboring provinces with substantial Mapuche populations, there is no consensus about the Mapuche alphabet (Warren ). Some Mapuche leaders and organizations prefer an alphabet that conforms to Spanish orthography while others use the Raguileo alphabet, which incorporates letters not used in Spanish, such as v to denote a vowel sound and k as seen in Kalfv.…”

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“…This is a complicated goal on both practical and theoretical grounds. Politically, it is making a clear point: Mapuche people do not feel included in the Argentine nation, and they have a different reference of national belonging, one that is based on the idea of a Mapuche nation that spans the Chile–Argentina border (Warren ). Further, after being excluded from the Argentine national imaginary for so long, Mapuche people want external recognition.…”

Section: Names and Identity As A Political Right: The Mapuche Civil Rmentioning

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Naming Regulations and Indigenous Rights in Argentina

Warren

2015

Sociological Forum

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In Argentina, parents must register their children at the Civil Registry to receive a national identification card, choosing their child's name from a list maintained by provincial Civil Registry offices. This process regulates all citizens, but it is particularly onerous for indigenous parents who wish to give their child an indigenous name. In tracing the letter and practice of the law and responses to the law, I argue that the regulation of names is a political process with racial and gender assumptions built into it. These assumptions translate into exclusionary implications for membership in national identity. For indigenous people in Argentina, this is particularly problematic, as they are already largely invisible to the national body. Although indigenous people are challenging aspects of the law they are not challenging the very premise of the law—that the state has the right to control their access to citizenship through a law regulating children's names. Finally, the successes of indigenous parents in using an indigenous name has the unintended consequence of turning indigenous names into cultural commodities, thus diminishing the validity of indigenous political critiques of the law.

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A Nation Divided: Building the Cross-Border Mapuche Nation in Chile and Argentina

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

Recording Historical Variations in Agricultural Areas Caused by Landslides and River Floods between 1977 and 2012 through Participatory Mapping in the Foothills of the Atacama Desert, Chile

Recording Historical Variations in Agricultural Areas Caused by Landslides and River Floods between 1977 and 2012 through Participatory Mapping in the Foothills of the Atacama Desert, Chile

The Spatiality of Boundary Work: Political-Administrative Borders and Maya-Mam Collective Identification

Naming Regulations and Indigenous Rights in Argentina

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