INVESTIGADORES
BARROS Manuel Sebastian
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Land property and citizenship in Patagonia
Autor/es:
BARROS, SEBASTIÁN
Lugar:
Leicester
Reunión:
Congreso; Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) 2019 Conference; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)
Resumen:
Taking evidence from the Constitutional Assembly of Chubut in 1957, I argue that the dominant political discourse in the Assembly portrayed certain parts of the population as equal in terms of political rights, but at the same time, those groups were assumed to be integrated by individuals incapable of governing the community. Drawing upon Foucault?s reading of democracy, I will analyse the political effects of the way in which certain parts of the population were portrayed as groups that could not be taken as speaking the truth. Foucault claims that in a democratic arrangement everybody can talk but not everybody can speak the truth. This produces a tension in democratic discourses that is often forgotten in social and political theory. In this presentation I will analyse the discussion about land property in Chubut and its effects regarding indigenous people as full equal citizens.
