Conflicting Narratives about the Argentinean ‘Conquest of the Desert’: Social Representations, Cognitive Polyphasia, and Nothingness

Barreiro, Alicia; Castorina, José Antonio; Alphen, Floor van

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“…Narratives of the past are crucial in the construction of social imaginaries: As Patomäki and Steger (2010: 1060) state, ‘identity can only be established in and through the narratives that the actors are telling’. ‘Historical stories’, or interpretations of the past, shape the way historical events are collectively remembered (Barreiro et al., 2017). These imaginaries of the past can fashion collective national desires and explain future expectations.…”

Section: Understanding the Embeddedness Of Export‐led Development: Co...mentioning

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Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina

Giraudo¹,

Grugel²

2022

Development and Change

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Many developing countries continue to rely on export-oriented growth strategies based on primary commodities, despite the many limitations of such policies. The persistence of this model is inherently related to the dominance of 'commodity imaginaries'. This article focuses on Argentina, an emblematic case of commodity dependency, where the soybean imaginary has dominated for the past 30 years. This imaginary has framed mainstream understandings of Argentina's path to growth and progress, shaped political contestation and ensured that a particular understanding of science and technology sits at the centre of the meaning of national development. In the process, it has transformed the country's geography in ways that normalize soy's dominance and invisibilize people and places located at the margins of the imaginary. The soybean imaginary renders a deeply political project of economic growth as 'common sense'. This article concludes that closer attention to the way national development projects are shaped, consciously and unconsciously, by commodity imaginaries could help explain the puzzle of how national governments can become locked into development choices that are environmentally unsustainable and that reproduce inequalities.

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Section: Understanding the Embeddedness Of Export‐led Development: Co...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina

Giraudo¹,

Grugel²

2022

Development and Change

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“…However, the student participants in our study represented the territory as if these lands had always belonged to Argentina, and in so doing reveal an essentialist vision of the national territory, a view likewise alive and well in textbooks as described above. It is also very likely that these representations reflect the collective memory of a significant proportion of Argentinian society; cultural productions such as statues, street names, and other Source: https://imagenes.educ.ar/repositorio/imagen/ver?image_id=beec4075-1368-11e1-83e2-ed15e3c494af elements of heritage that omit Indigenous aspects of that heritage while lauding the military seizure of the previously Indigenous territories are frequently observed in Argentina (Barreiro et al, 2017).…”

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Historical borders and maps as symbolic supports to master narratives and history education

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Carretero

Rodríguez-Moneo

2020

Theory & Psychology

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This article represents an attempt to establish a fruitful dialogue among the field of border studies, history education, sociocultural psychology, and the history of cartography. Seminal studies on borders have asserted that the historical maps included in textbooks are basically an imagined representation. This paper will consider the extent to which cultural and educational origins and uses of these maps, particularly in school settings, act as a support to historical essentialist views. Via the example of history education in Argentina, we carried out an empirical and theoretical examination of the processes of cultural production and consumption of historical maps and their relationship to historical master narratives. Results show that most laypeople largely think of national borders as possessing an essential and immutable character. We consider that closer study, from a sociocultural perspective, of the relationship between master narratives and historical maps may add an enriching element to the existing body of work produced by border studies.

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“…Quienes lograron sobrevivir fueron forzados a negar su cultura, volviéndose invisibles como grupo social para el resto de la sociedad (Del Río, 2005). Desde ese entonces, la invisibilización de la existencia de los pueblos indígenas se mantiene; dado que, la identidad nacional argentina se consolidó como "blanca" y "europea", generando una oposición entre la "civilización" occidental y la "barbarie" indígena (Barreiro, Castorina & Van Alphen, 2017;Gordillo & Hisrch, 2010).…”

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Representaciones sociales y prejuicio hacia los indígenas en Argentina

Barreiro¹,

Ungaretti²,

Etchezahar³

2019

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El objetivo de este trabajo es describir la representación social de los indígenas e indagar la existencia de posicionamientos diferenciales según los niveles de prejuicio sutil y manifiesto. Participaron 304 hombres y mujeres residentes en Buenos Aires (18 a 41 años) a quienes se les administró la técnica de asociación de palabras y la escala de prejuicio sutil y manifiesto hacia los indígenas. El análisis del rango promedio y la frecuencia de las asociaciones de los participantes pusieron de manifiesto una representación anacrónica de los indígenas. Además, mediante un análisis factorial por correspondencia simple se puso de manifiesto que los participantes con niveles bajos y medios de prejuicio sutil, piensa a los indígenas como argentinos y vinculan su situación actual a la masacre que sufrieron en el pasado. Por su parte, los participantes con altos niveles de prejuicio sutil desvalorizaron a los indígenas y les atribuyeron un origen diferente al propio. Palabras clave: representaciones sociales, asociación de palabras, prejuicio sutil, prejuicio manifiesto, indígenas. 1 Este trabajo ha sido posible gracias al apoyo del subsidio del FONCyT (Argentina) PICT-2016-0397: "Construcción de la justicia social: representaciones sociales, prejuicio y compromiso cívico de los jóvenes".

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Conflicting Narratives about the Argentinean ‘Conquest of the Desert’: Social Representations, Cognitive Polyphasia, and Nothingness

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina

Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity‐led Development: Reflections from Argentina

Historical borders and maps as symbolic supports to master narratives and history education

Representaciones sociales y prejuicio hacia los indígenas en Argentina

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