Marcelo González Gálvez
Biographic Data
| ID | 103245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcelo González Gálvez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcelo González |
| FAMILY NAME | Gálvez |
| SIGNATURE | GÁLVEZ M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4322-2132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Latin American perspectives on slow disasters
Purpose This forum article discusses the concept of slow disasters from Latin America, presenting different perspectives and experiences of practical research using this notion. It discusses the extent to which a focus on the “slow” temporality of disasters advances our understanding of socio-environmental processes in the region. Design/methodology/approach The article emerges from a pilot project to explore the relevance of temporality to analy…
Meditaciones Stratherianas: Relaciones, oscilaciones y sesgos a partir de dos ejemplos amerindios
In this article we illustrate the implications of the principle raised by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern in her lecture Always relating (2024), by contextualizing them in two Amerindian examples. In doing so, we highlight the importance of pursuing an introspective reflection challenging the very terms through which anthropology operates. Also, we observe how Strathern's thoughts on anthropological thinking might shed light on some unnoticed as…
Editor’s introduction
The review article and two book reviews published in this issue reflect upon three areas of critical engagement about the trials and tribulations faced in the world today. They also tell us about a...
A crisis of authenticity: Becoming entrepreneurial and the quest for "cultural appropriateness" among the Mapuche
Based on multisite ethnographic work between 2018 and 2020, this article examines entrepreneurship promotion policies developed by the Chilean state directed at Mapuche people. We direct attention to how the notion of authenticity works as a hinge between Mapuche people, historical heritage, nongovernmental organizations, and public policymakers in their promotion of microentrepreneurship as a form of overcoming poverty and achieving full inclusi…
Editor’s introduction
Books reflect the events, philosophies and primary concerns of their times. In Reviews the primary focus is on published books for this very reason, that publications are a source of data that need...
Editor’s introduction
This is our first editorial for this journal. We come from different parts of the world, India and Chile to be exact and as a consequence are deeply committed to the cause of diversity and inclusiv...
Devenir emprendedor: Subjetividades emergentes y las políticas de fomento al microemprendimiento en Chile
A partir de una investigación etnográfica multisituada, realizada en contextos urbanos, indígenas y rurales en Chile, en este artículo exploramos los procesos de subjetivación que emergen en poblaciones heterogéneas involucradas en las políticas de fomento al microemprendimiento. Observando la importancia que tienen las nociones de flexibilidad e incertidumbre en la formación emprendedora desarrolladaporestosprogramas,argumentamos que micro empre…
Innovation as translation in Indigenous entrepreneurship: Lessons from Mapuche entrepreneurs in Chile
Discourses of innovation are prone to homogenisation, and as such, their effects in the development of Indigenous enterprises are highly ambivalent. The elusiveness of innovation can also work as a flexible set of ideas through which Indigenous entrepreneurs reconfigure existing commercial practices. Focussing on two Mapuche enterprises, this article explores how innovation in the context of Indigenous entrepreneurship is performed as a process o…
La tensión de la intención: Eventos (aparentemente) unívocos y evidencias inconmensurables en Chile central
A partir de los incendios forestales de 2017, que terminaron con la destrucción total del pueblo de Santa Olga, en este artículo intentamos problematizar el aparente acuerdo que existe con respecto a la intencionalidad que provocó la catástrofe, y cómo ocultaría una divergencia con respecto a los motivos que movilizan esa misma intencionalidad. Esta divergencia nos permite avanzar, primero, hacia la problematización de la noción de evidencia, con…
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America: Edited by Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiogio Di Giminiani and Giovanna Bacchiddu
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America: Edited by Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiogio Di Giminiani and Giovanna Bacchiddu
Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift, demonstra…
Interruptions: Imagining an analytical otherwise for disaster studies in Latin America
Purpose Based on the research, the authors identify how four key concepts in disaster studies—agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability—are interrupted, and how these interruptions offer new perspectives for doing disaster research from and for the South. Design/methodology/approach Meta-analysis of case studies and revision of past and current collaborations of authors with communities across Chile. Findings The findings suggest that agency,…
Unfinished extinction and the velocities of capitalist sacrifices in the woodlands of central Chile
Through an exploration of the reconstruction process of the town of Santa Olga, which acquired nationwide relevance in Chile when it was destroyed by massive wildfires that occurred in 2017, in this paper we attempt to explain a paradox: that which totally destroys Santa Olga is precisely what ends up saving it. To do this, we first unravel the birth of the town to try to understand why, for its inhabitants, Santa Olga can be sacrificed. Then we …
Políticas de la evidencia: Entre Posverdad, Objetividad Y Etnografía
Título del número: Políticas de la evidencia : etnografía entre mundos unívocos y mundos múltiples. Sección: Meridianos
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America
Once conceptualized as self-evident connections between discrete social units systematized through ethnographic fieldwork, relations are being increasingly treated as instantiations of local ontological theories. The ethnography of indigenous South America has provided a source of inspiration for this analytical shift. As manifested in the contributions to this special issue, at the core of indigenous practices and discourses on relations lies a …
The roads of immanence: Infrastructural change in southern Chile
In southern Chile, the building of roads has triggered profound socio-material transformation in indigenous worlds. In this article, we attempt to comprehend and conceptualize the capacities of roads to reconstitute radically a relationally constituted world, a world that is therefore in itself contingent. We suggest that the material alteration of indigenous worlds produce uncertain results, including possibly its own destruction. The arguments …
Who Owns the Water? The Relation as Unfinished Objectivation in the Mapuche Lived World
Anthropological approaches to relations have customarily relied on ethnographic accounts of relations empirically observed through fieldwork, overlooking, in general, the ways in which the very notion of relation is locally conceptualised and put into practice. In this article, we provide a general characterisation of how relations are theorised and practiced in indigenous southern Chile. We propose the expression ‘unfinished objectivation’ to re…
Lévi-Strauss, el individualismo jíbaro y el Musée du quai Branly. Un diálogo con Anne- Christine Taylor
Lévi-Strauss, el individualismo jíbaro y el Musée du quai Branly. Un diálogo con Anne- Christine Taylor
Qué hace un camino? Alteraciones infraestructurales en el Sur de Chile
In this article we offer an account of the socio-material transformation that has triggered the building of roads in the indigenous worlds in southern Chile. Taking our starting point from Bateson’s theory of the “immanent mind”, we attempt to comprehend and conceptualize the capacities of roads to reconstitute radically a relationally constituted world, a world that is therefore in itself contingent. By means of our ethnographic explorations, we…
The truth of experience and its communication: Reflections on Mapuche epistemology
This paper explores certain ideas among rural Mapuche people in southern Chile regarding the epistemological status of experience. Drawing on a notion I call 'the singularity of personal experience', I explore why each experience, as something inherently personal, is understood as always necessarily true. I then move forward to look at how this diversity of experiential truths is manifest in social life, giving it a characteristic sense of uncert…
Comunidad Mapuche, Sociedad Winka y el “Tercero Incluido: Los Porma de Paicaví Durante los Siglos XIX y XX
Este artículo intenta una reconstrucción histórico-estructural del rewe Paicaví y sus líderes durante los siglos XIX y XX. A través del análisis de las distintas dinámicas que emergen en los diferentes contextos socio-históricos de la relación mapuche Estado, se delinea una cierta continuidad en cuanto al papel del líder y sus implicancias con respecto a la comunidad. A partir de datos tanto históricos como etnográficos, se visualiza el liderazgo…
Accessing Knowledge in a Discontinuous World. A Brief Comment From Southern Chile
Drawing on my ethnographic experience with rural Mapuche people, in this paper I attempt a twofold comment regarding the topic of ‘Accessing knowledge’. This comment firstly, problematizes our own understanding of what can be loosely labelled as ‘the world’; and, secondly, challenges the social emphasis of our notion of knowledge, which eventually is what permits its institutionalisation and thus its restriction. Finally, this discussion will lea…
The roads of immanence: Infrastructural change in southern Chile
In southern Chile, the building of roads has triggered profound socio-material transformation in indigenous worlds. In this article, we attempt to comprehend and conceptualize the capacities of roads to reconstitute radically a relationally constituted world, a world that is therefore in itself contingent. We suggest that the material alteration of indigenous worlds produce uncertain results, including possibly its own destruction. The arguments …
Who Owns the Water? The Relation as Unfinished Objectivation in the Mapuche Lived World
Anthropological approaches to relations have customarily relied on ethnographic accounts of relations empirically observed through fieldwork, overlooking, in general, the ways in which the very notion of relation is locally conceptualised and put into practice. In this article, we provide a general characterisation of how relations are theorised and practiced in indigenous southern Chile. We propose the expression ‘unfinished objectivation’ to re…
The truth of experience and its communication: Reflections on Mapuche epistemology
This paper explores certain ideas among rural Mapuche people in southern Chile regarding the epistemological status of experience. Drawing on a notion I call 'the singularity of personal experience', I explore why each experience, as something inherently personal, is understood as always necessarily true. I then move forward to look at how this diversity of experiential truths is manifest in social life, giving it a characteristic sense of uncert…
Políticas de la evidencia: Entre Posverdad, Objetividad Y Etnografía
Título del número: Políticas de la evidencia : etnografía entre mundos unívocos y mundos múltiples. Sección: Meridianos
Unfinished extinction and the velocities of capitalist sacrifices in the woodlands of central Chile
Through an exploration of the reconstruction process of the town of Santa Olga, which acquired nationwide relevance in Chile when it was destroyed by massive wildfires that occurred in 2017, in this paper we attempt to explain a paradox: that which totally destroys Santa Olga is precisely what ends up saving it. To do this, we first unravel the birth of the town to try to understand why, for its inhabitants, Santa Olga can be sacrificed. Then we …
Meditaciones Stratherianas: Relaciones, oscilaciones y sesgos a partir de dos ejemplos amerindios
In this article we illustrate the implications of the principle raised by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern in her lecture Always relating (2024), by contextualizing them in two Amerindian examples. In doing so, we highlight the importance of pursuing an introspective reflection challenging the very terms through which anthropology operates. Also, we observe how Strathern's thoughts on anthropological thinking might shed light on some unnoticed as…
A crisis of authenticity: Becoming entrepreneurial and the quest for "cultural appropriateness" among the Mapuche
Based on multisite ethnographic work between 2018 and 2020, this article examines entrepreneurship promotion policies developed by the Chilean state directed at Mapuche people. We direct attention to how the notion of authenticity works as a hinge between Mapuche people, historical heritage, nongovernmental organizations, and public policymakers in their promotion of microentrepreneurship as a form of overcoming poverty and achieving full inclusi…
Innovation as translation in Indigenous entrepreneurship: Lessons from Mapuche entrepreneurs in Chile
Discourses of innovation are prone to homogenisation, and as such, their effects in the development of Indigenous enterprises are highly ambivalent. The elusiveness of innovation can also work as a flexible set of ideas through which Indigenous entrepreneurs reconfigure existing commercial practices. Focussing on two Mapuche enterprises, this article explores how innovation in the context of Indigenous entrepreneurship is performed as a process o…
La tensión de la intención: Eventos (aparentemente) unívocos y evidencias inconmensurables en Chile central
A partir de los incendios forestales de 2017, que terminaron con la destrucción total del pueblo de Santa Olga, en este artículo intentamos problematizar el aparente acuerdo que existe con respecto a la intencionalidad que provocó la catástrofe, y cómo ocultaría una divergencia con respecto a los motivos que movilizan esa misma intencionalidad. Esta divergencia nos permite avanzar, primero, hacia la problematización de la noción de evidencia, con…
Comunidad Mapuche, Sociedad Winka y el “Tercero Incluido: Los Porma de Paicaví Durante los Siglos XIX y XX
Este artículo intenta una reconstrucción histórico-estructural del rewe Paicaví y sus líderes durante los siglos XIX y XX. A través del análisis de las distintas dinámicas que emergen en los diferentes contextos socio-históricos de la relación mapuche Estado, se delinea una cierta continuidad en cuanto al papel del líder y sus implicancias con respecto a la comunidad. A partir de datos tanto históricos como etnográficos, se visualiza el liderazgo…
Accessing Knowledge in a Discontinuous World. A Brief Comment From Southern Chile
Drawing on my ethnographic experience with rural Mapuche people, in this paper I attempt a twofold comment regarding the topic of ‘Accessing knowledge’. This comment firstly, problematizes our own understanding of what can be loosely labelled as ‘the world’; and, secondly, challenges the social emphasis of our notion of knowledge, which eventually is what permits its institutionalisation and thus its restriction. Finally, this discussion will lea…
Comunidad Mapuche, Sociedad Winka y el “Tercero Incluido: Los Porma de Paicaví Durante los Siglos XIX y XX
Este artículo intenta una reconstrucción histórico-estructural del rewe Paicaví y sus líderes durante los siglos XIX y XX. A través del análisis de las distintas dinámicas que emergen en los diferentes contextos socio-históricos de la relación mapuche Estado, se delinea una cierta continuidad en cuanto al papel del líder y sus implicancias con respecto a la comunidad. A partir de datos tanto históricos como etnográficos, se visualiza el liderazgo…
The truth of experience and its communication: Reflections on Mapuche epistemology
This paper explores certain ideas among rural Mapuche people in southern Chile regarding the epistemological status of experience. Drawing on a notion I call 'the singularity of personal experience', I explore why each experience, as something inherently personal, is understood as always necessarily true. I then move forward to look at how this diversity of experiential truths is manifest in social life, giving it a characteristic sense of uncert…
Qué hace un camino? Alteraciones infraestructurales en el Sur de Chile
In this article we offer an account of the socio-material transformation that has triggered the building of roads in the indigenous worlds in southern Chile. Taking our starting point from Bateson’s theory of the “immanent mind”, we attempt to comprehend and conceptualize the capacities of roads to reconstitute radically a relationally constituted world, a world that is therefore in itself contingent. By means of our ethnographic explorations, we…
Lévi-Strauss, el individualismo jíbaro y el Musée du quai Branly. Un diálogo con Anne- Christine Taylor
Lévi-Strauss, el individualismo jíbaro y el Musée du quai Branly. Un diálogo con Anne- Christine Taylor
The roads of immanence: Infrastructural change in southern Chile
In southern Chile, the building of roads has triggered profound socio-material transformation in indigenous worlds. In this article, we attempt to comprehend and conceptualize the capacities of roads to reconstitute radically a relationally constituted world, a world that is therefore in itself contingent. We suggest that the material alteration of indigenous worlds produce uncertain results, including possibly its own destruction. The arguments …
Who Owns the Water? The Relation as Unfinished Objectivation in the Mapuche Lived World
Anthropological approaches to relations have customarily relied on ethnographic accounts of relations empirically observed through fieldwork, overlooking, in general, the ways in which the very notion of relation is locally conceptualised and put into practice. In this article, we provide a general characterisation of how relations are theorised and practiced in indigenous southern Chile. We propose the expression ‘unfinished objectivation’ to re…
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America
Once conceptualized as self-evident connections between discrete social units systematized through ethnographic fieldwork, relations are being increasingly treated as instantiations of local ontological theories. The ethnography of indigenous South America has provided a source of inspiration for this analytical shift. As manifested in the contributions to this special issue, at the core of indigenous practices and discourses on relations lies a …
Políticas de la evidencia: Entre Posverdad, Objetividad Y Etnografía
Título del número: Políticas de la evidencia : etnografía entre mundos unívocos y mundos múltiples. Sección: Meridianos
Interruptions: Imagining an analytical otherwise for disaster studies in Latin America
Purpose Based on the research, the authors identify how four key concepts in disaster studies—agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability—are interrupted, and how these interruptions offer new perspectives for doing disaster research from and for the South. Design/methodology/approach Meta-analysis of case studies and revision of past and current collaborations of authors with communities across Chile. Findings The findings suggest that agency,…
Unfinished extinction and the velocities of capitalist sacrifices in the woodlands of central Chile
Through an exploration of the reconstruction process of the town of Santa Olga, which acquired nationwide relevance in Chile when it was destroyed by massive wildfires that occurred in 2017, in this paper we attempt to explain a paradox: that which totally destroys Santa Olga is precisely what ends up saving it. To do this, we first unravel the birth of the town to try to understand why, for its inhabitants, Santa Olga can be sacrificed. Then we …
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America: Edited by Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiogio Di Giminiani and Giovanna Bacchiddu
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America: Edited by Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiogio Di Giminiani and Giovanna Bacchiddu
Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift, demonstra…
Editor’s introduction
Books reflect the events, philosophies and primary concerns of their times. In Reviews the primary focus is on published books for this very reason, that publications are a source of data that need...
Editor’s introduction
This is our first editorial for this journal. We come from different parts of the world, India and Chile to be exact and as a consequence are deeply committed to the cause of diversity and inclusiv...
Devenir emprendedor: Subjetividades emergentes y las políticas de fomento al microemprendimiento en Chile
A partir de una investigación etnográfica multisituada, realizada en contextos urbanos, indígenas y rurales en Chile, en este artículo exploramos los procesos de subjetivación que emergen en poblaciones heterogéneas involucradas en las políticas de fomento al microemprendimiento. Observando la importancia que tienen las nociones de flexibilidad e incertidumbre en la formación emprendedora desarrolladaporestosprogramas,argumentamos que micro empre…
Innovation as translation in Indigenous entrepreneurship: Lessons from Mapuche entrepreneurs in Chile
Discourses of innovation are prone to homogenisation, and as such, their effects in the development of Indigenous enterprises are highly ambivalent. The elusiveness of innovation can also work as a flexible set of ideas through which Indigenous entrepreneurs reconfigure existing commercial practices. Focussing on two Mapuche enterprises, this article explores how innovation in the context of Indigenous entrepreneurship is performed as a process o…
La tensión de la intención: Eventos (aparentemente) unívocos y evidencias inconmensurables en Chile central
A partir de los incendios forestales de 2017, que terminaron con la destrucción total del pueblo de Santa Olga, en este artículo intentamos problematizar el aparente acuerdo que existe con respecto a la intencionalidad que provocó la catástrofe, y cómo ocultaría una divergencia con respecto a los motivos que movilizan esa misma intencionalidad. Esta divergencia nos permite avanzar, primero, hacia la problematización de la noción de evidencia, con…
Editor’s introduction
The review article and two book reviews published in this issue reflect upon three areas of critical engagement about the trials and tribulations faced in the world today. They also tell us about a...
A crisis of authenticity: Becoming entrepreneurial and the quest for "cultural appropriateness" among the Mapuche
Based on multisite ethnographic work between 2018 and 2020, this article examines entrepreneurship promotion policies developed by the Chilean state directed at Mapuche people. We direct attention to how the notion of authenticity works as a hinge between Mapuche people, historical heritage, nongovernmental organizations, and public policymakers in their promotion of microentrepreneurship as a form of overcoming poverty and achieving full inclusi…
Latin American perspectives on slow disasters
Purpose This forum article discusses the concept of slow disasters from Latin America, presenting different perspectives and experiences of practical research using this notion. It discusses the extent to which a focus on the “slow” temporality of disasters advances our understanding of socio-environmental processes in the region. Design/methodology/approach The article emerges from a pilot project to explore the relevance of temporality to analy…
Meditaciones Stratherianas: Relaciones, oscilaciones y sesgos a partir de dos ejemplos amerindios
In this article we illustrate the implications of the principle raised by anthropologist Marilyn Strathern in her lecture Always relating (2024), by contextualizing them in two Amerindian examples. In doing so, we highlight the importance of pursuing an introspective reflection challenging the very terms through which anthropology operates. Also, we observe how Strathern's thoughts on anthropological thinking might shed light on some unnoticed as…
Sociology (14 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Humanities (5 works)