Paradigma Pachamama. Patrimonialización, extractivismos y lavado verde en Jujuy, Argentina

Abstract

This article analyzes the process of patrimonialization of the Pachamama in Jujuy, between the mid-1990s and the present. Through the analysis of laws, journalistic documents and ethnographic observations, it is shown how the Pachamama was characterized as an object and a religious and cultural practice typical of the Andean world, while progressively signifying as "nature" in a modern sense. Based on an analysis that reconstructs the practices, procedures, acts and regulations promoted by the provincial state of Jujuy through which Pachamama was patrimonialized, it is shown how this process was articulated with the deepening of a regional economic model sustained in extractivism in indigenous territories, and with a neo-developmentalist imaginary in which Pachamama was placed as a "guarantor" of the model carried out by the government from greenwashing speeches.

Keywords

• Pachamama
• Jujuy
• extractivism
• greenwashing
• heritage