Indigenous Communication in the Argentinean Northwest: The Case of the Indigenous Radio FM OCAN (Salta, Argentina)

Abstract

This article describes and analyzes the communication experience recently consolidated by the Organization of Aboriginal Communities of Nazarene (OCAN, for its acronym in Spanish), around one of the first original radios created in the ‘Qullamarka territory’ aftr the sanction of the Law of Audiovisual Communication Services in Argentina in the year 2009. This experience implied the construction of a training space within the paradigm of the right to communication, at the same time; it meant an integrated space for the search for recognition of other rights. Reflecting on our role in the accompaniment and collaboration with the consolidation of the fm radio ocan, the objective of this study is to give an account of the challenges presented by the communication thought and exercised by indigenous organizations, as well as their transforming potential, as an expression of the struggle of the indigenous peoples defending their local territories, identities and cultures.

Keywords

• comunicación indígena
• participación
• radio