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"If I have a job in the city, I'll go to the bush on weekends" : place production among Toba people in northern Argentina Vivaldi, Ana Inés
Abstract
Indigenous struggles over places are a response to the spatial reconfiguration that is part of an ongoing process of colonization. This thesis explores how urban indigenous people contest social exclusion through everyday place-making. I analyze how the residents of the Lote 68, an indigenous neighborhood in the city of Formosa (Northern Argentina), cope with their position of marginality within the city, by simultaneously embracing a project of "progress" and by reappropriating the nearby bushes within rural private properties. The interviews and participant observation I conducted among this group show that their use of space disputes the hegemonic notions of aboriginality that articulate it as a poor, backward and a welfare-dependent identity. Conversely, the bush is a place that offers Lote residents a way of coping with unemployment, but more importantly, permits them to re-appropriate the notion of aborigen (indigenous person), recreate meaningful forms of socialization, and ultimately generate an alternative access to the city.
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"If I have a job in the city, I'll go to the bush on weekends" : place production among Toba people in northern Argentina
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University of British Columbia
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2007
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Indigenous struggles over places are a response to the spatial reconfiguration that is part of an
ongoing process of colonization. This thesis explores how urban indigenous people contest social
exclusion through everyday place-making. I analyze how the residents of the Lote 68, an
indigenous neighborhood in the city of Formosa (Northern Argentina), cope with their position
of marginality within the city, by simultaneously embracing a project of "progress" and by reappropriating
the nearby bushes within rural private properties. The interviews and participant
observation I conducted among this group show that their use of space disputes the hegemonic
notions of aboriginality that articulate it as a poor, backward and a welfare-dependent identity.
Conversely, the bush is a place that offers Lote residents a way of coping with unemployment,
but more importantly, permits them to re-appropriate the notion of aborigen (indigenous person),
recreate meaningful forms of socialization, and ultimately generate an alternative access to the
city.
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eng
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2011-02-17
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0100666
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University of British Columbia
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Graduate
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