Historical-geographic maps of systems of communities in the Argentinean Chaco. Linking histories and spaces for territories of rights and resistance

SALAMANCA VILLAMIZAR CARLOS

Laussane

Congreso; Mapping Ethics; 2011

EPFL

The historical-geographic maps incorporate history to the space with the aim of show the complexity of the relations between some indigenous communities of Argentinean Chaco and the rest of the Argentinean national society. The conquest and colonization processes of indigenous territories are emphasized. These maps also illuminated several contexts in which the indigenous people were evicted of their communities putting serious difficulties so that they can solve of independent way their conditions of existence. Besides, the historical-geographic maps incorporate history with the aim that the indigenous communities itself incorporate some of the characteristics of a common past and a possible collective future. These maps are built in collaboration with indigenous people organizations which are working in a regional scale for political action and searching alternatives for development alternatives designed with their consent.