Borders, Development, and Territory in Argentina: Indigenous Mobilization in the Central Chaco

IÑIGO CARRERA, VALERIA

Latin American Perspectives

Sage Journals

Año: 2019 p. 1 - 13

0094-582X

One of the bases forthe mobilization of indigenous peoples in Argentina in recent yearshas been access to, use of, and ownership of the natural resourcescontained in the territory they occupy or claim. Politicalmobilization among the Qom of Potae Napocna Navogoh in the centralChaco is a response to the modalities of intervention for developmentand territory configurations involved in capital accumulation thathave threatened the possibility of their reproduction, and itinvolves conflict with both private capital and the state forterritory rather than for land.