Intersticios (Dec 2018)
Spaces for territorial struggle and identity recognition. Community experiences of the Chuschagasta
Abstract
This work proposes to reflect on the community experiences of the members of the "Los Chuschagasta" community of the Diaguita people-nation in Tucumán (Choromoro Valley, Argentina) before indigenist laws, attacks, evictions and other situations of persecution by landowners in complicity with state officials, mainly local. Specifically, I focus on two situations of judicial processes that went through the community as it was at the time of its formation, towards the end of the nineties and the first years of the following decade, and then before the murder of one of its authorities, Javier Chocobar, on October 12, 2009. The election of these practices consists of triggered from situations of territorial conflicts that led to the comuneros had to explain and claim their identity and right to territory and, leading to judicialization processes, gave rise to an instance of resignification of the state institutional-legal framework with its body of indigenist laws. Thus, indigenous forms of struggle that combine part of the neoliberal hegemonic logics are evident from a reflective exercise of identity self-recognition that leads the comuneros to think about their daily and ancestral practices according to the normative hegemonic language, not without resignifying it. and, at times, question it.
