Olivia Casagrande
Biographic Data
| ID | 474127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivia Casagrande |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivia |
| FAMILY NAME | Casagrande |
| SIGNATURE | CASAGRANDE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4680-3805 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Dark, buried, and very Indian’
In Latin America, urbanization is deeply linked to the dispossession of Indigenous people, and to processes of racialization that constructed the city as ‘white’ in antithesis to their territories and forms of life. Yet, the majority of Indigenous people now live in urban areas. In a context of racial inequalities and epistemic violence, how are Indigenous practices of urban inhabitation produced and given meaning? How is Indigenous knowledge sha…
"You Taught Me Language; and My Profit on't." Translation, Differential Authorship, and Frictions as champurria Collaborations in Indigenous and Anthropological Writing
Building on an ongoing dialogue with co-editors Claudio Alvarado Lincopi and Roberto Cayuqueo Martínez, this article explores the process that redefined roles and relationships with and through writing. It investigates multivocal representations and collaborative writings, interrogating the possibilities and challenges of divergent positionalities in methodologies and epistemologies of co-creation that are simultaneously Indigenous, academic, eth…
Achieving co-presence when together and apart
This article reflects on collaborative research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic involving indigenous youth co-investigators from different urban settings in Bolivia and a UK- and Bolivia-based research coordination team. Unlike previous studies that highlight the potential of generating a shared co-presence via virtual engagements and digital methods when face-to-face interactions seem less desirable, this article offers a more cautious …
Scenes from El Alto
This article contributes to debates on Indigenous planning from the perspective of Latin American urban Indigenous youth. It focuses particularly on Bolivia, a country renowned internationally for promoting indigenous rights, post-neoliberal development, and decolonization in its 2009 constitution. Research to date, however, highlights the gaps between legal rhetoric and planning practice, emphasizing how government authorities continue to reprod…
Visual Effects
In Latin American cities, indigenous peoples' presence is often overlooked: symbols and iconographies either exclude them as a minority or 'memorialise' them as part of a distant past. Through ethnographic observation, walking and visual narrative analysis, and adapting Charles Hale's constructions of indigeneity, this article examines the different representations of indigeneity in urban public space in Santiago de Chile. It interrogates its for…
Unexpected places
This article explores the relationship between land, words and silence, and the ways they are articulated in biographical trajectories. In the context of displacement and successive home-making, it follows the spatial and temporal trajectories of a Mapuche family, their non-linear routes through the experience of exile, and the process of dwelling in the elsewhere. Exile is addressed here as a condition of being, a tension between presence and ab…
On Our Own Terms
The exhibition MapsUrbe: The invisible City (December 2018 - January 2019) staged the creations of young Mapuche artists and activists addressing the politics and history of the indigenous diaspora in Santiago (Chile). Engaging with urban space materiality and the trajectories shaped by displacement and endurance within the city, the exhibition explored subversive aesthetics and political imaginations, crafting alternative spatialities and tempor…
Towards atuwün wariache? Place-making and creative acts of traversing in the Mapuche city
This article addresses experiences of belonging and place-making among indigenous Mapuche youths in Santiago, Chile. Moving from a collaborative ethnography, it elaborates on the emplacement of thetuwün(place of origin) - usually linked to ancestral territories - within the city, and the meanings this shift entails. Furthering knowledge on indigenous spatiality by addressing migration, the analysis focuses on the ambivalent ways in which memory, …
"Do You See What I Mean?"
Towards atuwün wariache? Place-making and creative acts of traversing in the Mapuche city
This article addresses experiences of belonging and place-making among indigenous Mapuche youths in Santiago, Chile. Moving from a collaborative ethnography, it elaborates on the emplacement of thetuwün(place of origin) - usually linked to ancestral territories - within the city, and the meanings this shift entails. Furthering knowledge on indigenous spatiality by addressing migration, the analysis focuses on the ambivalent ways in which memory, …
On Our Own Terms
The exhibition MapsUrbe: The invisible City (December 2018 - January 2019) staged the creations of young Mapuche artists and activists addressing the politics and history of the indigenous diaspora in Santiago (Chile). Engaging with urban space materiality and the trajectories shaped by displacement and endurance within the city, the exhibition explored subversive aesthetics and political imaginations, crafting alternative spatialities and tempor…
"You Taught Me Language; and My Profit on't." Translation, Differential Authorship, and Frictions as champurria Collaborations in Indigenous and Anthropological Writing
Building on an ongoing dialogue with co-editors Claudio Alvarado Lincopi and Roberto Cayuqueo Martínez, this article explores the process that redefined roles and relationships with and through writing. It investigates multivocal representations and collaborative writings, interrogating the possibilities and challenges of divergent positionalities in methodologies and epistemologies of co-creation that are simultaneously Indigenous, academic, eth…
Achieving co-presence when together and apart
This article reflects on collaborative research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic involving indigenous youth co-investigators from different urban settings in Bolivia and a UK- and Bolivia-based research coordination team. Unlike previous studies that highlight the potential of generating a shared co-presence via virtual engagements and digital methods when face-to-face interactions seem less desirable, this article offers a more cautious …
"Do You See What I Mean?"
Towards atuwün wariache? Place-making and creative acts of traversing in the Mapuche city
This article addresses experiences of belonging and place-making among indigenous Mapuche youths in Santiago, Chile. Moving from a collaborative ethnography, it elaborates on the emplacement of thetuwün(place of origin) - usually linked to ancestral territories - within the city, and the meanings this shift entails. Furthering knowledge on indigenous spatiality by addressing migration, the analysis focuses on the ambivalent ways in which memory, …
Unexpected places
This article explores the relationship between land, words and silence, and the ways they are articulated in biographical trajectories. In the context of displacement and successive home-making, it follows the spatial and temporal trajectories of a Mapuche family, their non-linear routes through the experience of exile, and the process of dwelling in the elsewhere. Exile is addressed here as a condition of being, a tension between presence and ab…
On Our Own Terms
The exhibition MapsUrbe: The invisible City (December 2018 - January 2019) staged the creations of young Mapuche artists and activists addressing the politics and history of the indigenous diaspora in Santiago (Chile). Engaging with urban space materiality and the trajectories shaped by displacement and endurance within the city, the exhibition explored subversive aesthetics and political imaginations, crafting alternative spatialities and tempor…
Scenes from El Alto
This article contributes to debates on Indigenous planning from the perspective of Latin American urban Indigenous youth. It focuses particularly on Bolivia, a country renowned internationally for promoting indigenous rights, post-neoliberal development, and decolonization in its 2009 constitution. Research to date, however, highlights the gaps between legal rhetoric and planning practice, emphasizing how government authorities continue to reprod…
Visual Effects
In Latin American cities, indigenous peoples' presence is often overlooked: symbols and iconographies either exclude them as a minority or 'memorialise' them as part of a distant past. Through ethnographic observation, walking and visual narrative analysis, and adapting Charles Hale's constructions of indigeneity, this article examines the different representations of indigeneity in urban public space in Santiago de Chile. It interrogates its for…
Achieving co-presence when together and apart
This article reflects on collaborative research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic involving indigenous youth co-investigators from different urban settings in Bolivia and a UK- and Bolivia-based research coordination team. Unlike previous studies that highlight the potential of generating a shared co-presence via virtual engagements and digital methods when face-to-face interactions seem less desirable, this article offers a more cautious …
"You Taught Me Language; and My Profit on't." Translation, Differential Authorship, and Frictions as champurria Collaborations in Indigenous and Anthropological Writing
Building on an ongoing dialogue with co-editors Claudio Alvarado Lincopi and Roberto Cayuqueo Martínez, this article explores the process that redefined roles and relationships with and through writing. It investigates multivocal representations and collaborative writings, interrogating the possibilities and challenges of divergent positionalities in methodologies and epistemologies of co-creation that are simultaneously Indigenous, academic, eth…
‘Dark, buried, and very Indian’
In Latin America, urbanization is deeply linked to the dispossession of Indigenous people, and to processes of racialization that constructed the city as ‘white’ in antithesis to their territories and forms of life. Yet, the majority of Indigenous people now live in urban areas. In a context of racial inequalities and epistemic violence, how are Indigenous practices of urban inhabitation produced and given meaning? How is Indigenous knowledge sha…
Sociology (5 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Indigenous Cultures and History (4 works) · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)