P Di Giminiani
Biographic Data
| ID | 53650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Di Giminiani |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Giminiani |
| SIGNATURE | DI GIMINIANI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5031-672X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Entrepreneurial Becomings: Transformation, Crisis, and Aspiration in the Global Rise of Microentrepreneurship
In the context of global economic and political crises, microentrepreneurship enjoys popularity both as a solution to poverty and as an empowering lifestyle based on values of independence and flexibility. While education, training, and engagement in entrepreneurship may have significant effects on self‐making, social and economic change from entrepreneurial formation remains ambivalent. In this introductory essay, we set out how becoming an entr…
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…
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…
The making of a conservation frontier: Nation-building, green productivism, and environmentalism in Patagonia
In Patagonia, emerging concerns over environmental degradation in frontier territories suggest the constitution of a new type of frontier-the conservation frontier-in which nature is an object of consumption rather than extraction. Conservation frontiers are made through disputed forms of spatialization, in which wilderness can be a refuge, a source of capital accumulation, and a new space for political experimentation. Three overlapping yet conf…
The Limits of Care
Drawing on the experiences of caring in agriculture and forestry among Mapuche landholders of Chile, this article advances a definition of care as an act of relating intervening mutual articulations of vitality. Caring for nonhumans entails a reflexive awareness of the ontological and ethical limits of human care, limits made visible by the nonhumans’ potentials to respond to our actions and affect us. Reflections on the limits of care foster an …
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…
Can natives be settlers? Emptiness, settlement and indigeneity on the settler colonial frontier in Chile
Under settler colonialism, dispossession is enabled by discursive strategies aimed at curtailing indigenous entitlement to land. One such strategy is the mutual determination of the native-settler categories whereby the native status is bound to a condition of ahistorical emplacement to specific tracts of land, while settlers can claim native status towards the nation state as a whole. The settler-native dichotomy fails to account for the possibi…
Nueva normalidad, vieja precariedad: La crisis pandémica en Santiago de Chile
Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America ed. by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía
Reviewed by: Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America ed. by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía Piergiorgio Di Giminiani and Viviana Huiliñir-Curío Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía, eds., Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 282 pp. Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía, eds., Indigenous…
Introduction: Translating Environments
Far from being inert materials activated by human ingenuity, natural resources come to be made and unmade through ongoing processes of translation, through which they acquire new potentialities and meanings. In this introduction, we review the key concept of translation for anthropology and explore some of its multiple analytical possibilities in the context of human-environment relations. Based on insights offered by the articles in this collect…
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 …
Emerging landscapes of private conservation: Enclosure and mediation in southern Chilean protected areas
What defines a river? Modelling the interplay between physical and social driving factors in characterising the waterways in Chile
The categorisation of natural landscape features places a socialised and ordered lens on the landscape. In the case of natural waterways, it creates a regional hydrological vocabulary, based on physical processes and cultural history. This study uses the unique combination of hydrological and cultural characteristics found in Chile to determine the degree to which local waterway classifications of waterways as rivers (río in Spanish) provide insi…
É possível respeitar a terra: Dilemas ambientais entre fazendeiros Mapuche no Chile
Esse artigo analisa formas ideais, possíveis e reais de engajamento ambiental entre o povo Mapuche. Material etnográfico centrado nas práticas agrícolas entre os residentes rurais de Mapuche, e suas conexões com a indústria do agronegócio mostram como ideias indígenas de "respeito" e princípios ontológicos de consciência não-humana são constantemente negociados na mediação entre a vontade de proteger a terra e a necessidade de explorála para gara…
Entrepreneurs in the making: Indigenous entrepreneurship and the governance of hope in Chile
Over the last three decades, national governments and international agencies have introduced a growing number of entrepreneurial programs as a panacea for problems of economic precariousness and exclusion. This article illustrates some of the effects of entrepreneurial discourses and state actions among Mapuche rural residents in Chile. I argue that becoming an entrepreneur is an open-ended process in which state-supported microenterprises consol…
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…
Borders, Affects, and Effects
In this review, we report the main discussions and concepts debated in the workshop “Animals and Politics: Explorations for a More-Than-Human Democracy,” the first academic event on animal studies in Chile. After a brief overview of the workshop, we summarize its results by identifying three broad conversations that cut across the workshop—borders, affects, and effects
Ecología Política en Chile: "Naturaleza, Propiedad, Conocimiento Y Poder" (2o15)
How to Manage a Forest: Environmental Governance in Neoliberal Chile
Knowledge transfer is a central feature of environmental governance worldwide. Over the last three decades, state action targeting small land holders has been increasingly shaped around managerial ideals of natural resource use and conservation. By drawing on ethnographic research among farmers and forest officers in Chile, this article highlights the intersections between knowledge and monitoring in forest governance. In a departure from rigid n…
Being from the Land: Memory, Self and the Power of Place in Indigenous Southern Chile
Connection with ancestral land is a central tenet of indigenous identity claims. In a departure from constructivist approaches to the role ancestral land in identity politics, this article focuses on the discursive and experiential manifestations of Mapuche theories of emplacement, according to which land is actively involved in the making of selves. By drawing upon the notion of tuwün, a term roughly translatable as place of origin, I argue that…
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
In 'How Forests Think', Eduardo Kohn sets the agenda for an ambitious plan; to develop, an anthropology that could attend not only to the ways in which non-humans act or react, but also to the ways
Entrevista con Marcio Goldman, Museo Nacional de la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro
Marcio Goldman, doctor en Antropología por la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro y actualmente profesor del Museo Nacional de la UFRJ, se ha dedicado al estudio antropológico de las religiones afrobrasileñas y de la política. Ha sido profesor visitante en distintas universidades como la Universidad de São Paulo (USP), Universidad de Cabo Verde y Universidad de Chicago. Entre los libros publicados por Marcio Goldman encontramos Razão e Diferenç…
Entrevista con Marcio Goldman, Museo Nacional de la Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro
Marcio Goldman is currently a professor of the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has worked on Afro-brazilian religions and politics. He has been a visiting professor in several universities such as the University of São Paul
The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History
Reviewed: The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History. By Joanna Crow. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013, xvi + 288 pp. US$ 26.95. ISBN 978-0-8130-6039-2
The becoming of ancestral land: Place and property in Mapuche land claims
If Mapuche land claims in southern Chile reflect the incommensurability of local notions of place and the legal principles of property, they also reveal intersections between indigenous and legal ontologies of land. Property languages and technologies allow claimants to frame knowledge about ancestral territory in ways consistent with local significations of place as a sentient agent. Yet they also serve as mechanisms for codifying indigenous geo…
Can natives be settlers? Emptiness, settlement and indigeneity on the settler colonial frontier in Chile
Under settler colonialism, dispossession is enabled by discursive strategies aimed at curtailing indigenous entitlement to land. One such strategy is the mutual determination of the native-settler categories whereby the native status is bound to a condition of ahistorical emplacement to specific tracts of land, while settlers can claim native status towards the nation state as a whole. The settler-native dichotomy fails to account for the possibi…
The contestedrewe: Sacred sites, misunderstandings, and ontological pluralism inMapuche land negotiations
Sacred sites lie at the core of indigenous peoples' land claims and negotiations with the state. These sites are often subject to accusations of inauthenticity by state actors, which potentially lead to the delegitimization of claims over ancestral land. This article argues that misunderstandings inMapuche land negotiations inChile do not originate as strategic refusals to understand, but rather in a form of understanding which aims to make radic…
Entrepreneurs in the making: Indigenous entrepreneurship and the governance of hope in Chile
Over the last three decades, national governments and international agencies have introduced a growing number of entrepreneurial programs as a panacea for problems of economic precariousness and exclusion. This article illustrates some of the effects of entrepreneurial discourses and state actions among Mapuche rural residents in Chile. I argue that becoming an entrepreneur is an open-ended process in which state-supported microenterprises consol…
Emerging landscapes of private conservation: Enclosure and mediation in southern Chilean protected areas
Being from the Land: Memory, Self and the Power of Place in Indigenous Southern Chile
Connection with ancestral land is a central tenet of indigenous identity claims. In a departure from constructivist approaches to the role ancestral land in identity politics, this article focuses on the discursive and experiential manifestations of Mapuche theories of emplacement, according to which land is actively involved in the making of selves. By drawing upon the notion of tuwün, a term roughly translatable as place of origin, I argue that…
Introduction: Translating Environments
Far from being inert materials activated by human ingenuity, natural resources come to be made and unmade through ongoing processes of translation, through which they acquire new potentialities and meanings. In this introduction, we review the key concept of translation for anthropology and explore some of its multiple analytical possibilities in the context of human-environment relations. Based on insights offered by the articles in this collect…
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…
El paisaje como proceso de vida: Experiencias de domesticación del bosque en el sur de Chile
El paisaje como proceso de vida: experiencias
How to Manage a Forest: Environmental Governance in Neoliberal Chile
Knowledge transfer is a central feature of environmental governance worldwide. Over the last three decades, state action targeting small land holders has been increasingly shaped around managerial ideals of natural resource use and conservation. By drawing on ethnographic research among farmers and forest officers in Chile, this article highlights the intersections between knowledge and monitoring in forest governance. In a departure from rigid n…
The making of a conservation frontier: Nation-building, green productivism, and environmentalism in Patagonia
In Patagonia, emerging concerns over environmental degradation in frontier territories suggest the constitution of a new type of frontier-the conservation frontier-in which nature is an object of consumption rather than extraction. Conservation frontiers are made through disputed forms of spatialization, in which wilderness can be a refuge, a source of capital accumulation, and a new space for political experimentation. Three overlapping yet conf…
Nueva normalidad, vieja precariedad: La crisis pandémica en Santiago de Chile
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…
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…
Borders, Affects, and Effects
In this review, we report the main discussions and concepts debated in the workshop “Animals and Politics: Explorations for a More-Than-Human Democracy,” the first academic event on animal studies in Chile. After a brief overview of the workshop, we summarize its results by identifying three broad conversations that cut across the workshop—borders, affects, and effects
The contestedrewe: Sacred sites, misunderstandings, and ontological pluralism inMapuche land negotiations
Sacred sites lie at the core of indigenous peoples' land claims and negotiations with the state. These sites are often subject to accusations of inauthenticity by state actors, which potentially lead to the delegitimization of claims over ancestral land. This article argues that misunderstandings inMapuche land negotiations inChile do not originate as strategic refusals to understand, but rather in a form of understanding which aims to make radic…
Entrevista con Marcio Goldman, Museo Nacional de la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro
Marcio Goldman, doctor en Antropología por la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro y actualmente profesor del Museo Nacional de la UFRJ, se ha dedicado al estudio antropológico de las religiones afrobrasileñas y de la política. Ha sido profesor visitante en distintas universidades como la Universidad de São Paulo (USP), Universidad de Cabo Verde y Universidad de Chicago. Entre los libros publicados por Marcio Goldman encontramos Razão e Diferenç…
Entrevista con Marcio Goldman, Museo Nacional de la Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro
Marcio Goldman is currently a professor of the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has worked on Afro-brazilian religions and politics. He has been a visiting professor in several universities such as the University of São Paul
The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History
Reviewed: The Mapuche in Modern Chile: A Cultural History. By Joanna Crow. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013, xvi + 288 pp. US$ 26.95. ISBN 978-0-8130-6039-2
El paisaje como proceso de vida: Experiencias de domesticación del bosque en el sur de Chile
El paisaje como proceso de vida: experiencias
Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights
Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights, by sociologist Patricia Richards, offers a thorough analysis of the changes and continuity brought by neoliberal multiculturalism to colonial relations involving indigenous Mapuche people in Chile. By bringing together conflicting views by elite members, politicians, state functionaries, and Mapuche activists concerning collective rights and self-determination for indi…
The becoming of ancestral land: Place and property in Mapuche land claims
If Mapuche land claims in southern Chile reflect the incommensurability of local notions of place and the legal principles of property, they also reveal intersections between indigenous and legal ontologies of land. Property languages and technologies allow claimants to frame knowledge about ancestral territory in ways consistent with local significations of place as a sentient agent. Yet they also serve as mechanisms for codifying indigenous geo…
Ecología Política en Chile: "Naturaleza, Propiedad, Conocimiento Y Poder" (2o15)
How to Manage a Forest: Environmental Governance in Neoliberal Chile
Knowledge transfer is a central feature of environmental governance worldwide. Over the last three decades, state action targeting small land holders has been increasingly shaped around managerial ideals of natural resource use and conservation. By drawing on ethnographic research among farmers and forest officers in Chile, this article highlights the intersections between knowledge and monitoring in forest governance. In a departure from rigid n…
Being from the Land: Memory, Self and the Power of Place in Indigenous Southern Chile
Connection with ancestral land is a central tenet of indigenous identity claims. In a departure from constructivist approaches to the role ancestral land in identity politics, this article focuses on the discursive and experiential manifestations of Mapuche theories of emplacement, according to which land is actively involved in the making of selves. By drawing upon the notion of tuwün, a term roughly translatable as place of origin, I argue that…
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
In 'How Forests Think', Eduardo Kohn sets the agenda for an ambitious plan; to develop, an anthropology that could attend not only to the ways in which non-humans act or react, but also to the ways
Borders, Affects, and Effects
In this review, we report the main discussions and concepts debated in the workshop “Animals and Politics: Explorations for a More-Than-Human Democracy,” the first academic event on animal studies in Chile. After a brief overview of the workshop, we summarize its results by identifying three broad conversations that cut across the workshop—borders, affects, and effects
Emerging landscapes of private conservation: Enclosure and mediation in southern Chilean protected areas
What defines a river? Modelling the interplay between physical and social driving factors in characterising the waterways in Chile
The categorisation of natural landscape features places a socialised and ordered lens on the landscape. In the case of natural waterways, it creates a regional hydrological vocabulary, based on physical processes and cultural history. This study uses the unique combination of hydrological and cultural characteristics found in Chile to determine the degree to which local waterway classifications of waterways as rivers (río in Spanish) provide insi…
É possível respeitar a terra: Dilemas ambientais entre fazendeiros Mapuche no Chile
Esse artigo analisa formas ideais, possíveis e reais de engajamento ambiental entre o povo Mapuche. Material etnográfico centrado nas práticas agrícolas entre os residentes rurais de Mapuche, e suas conexões com a indústria do agronegócio mostram como ideias indígenas de "respeito" e princípios ontológicos de consciência não-humana são constantemente negociados na mediação entre a vontade de proteger a terra e a necessidade de explorála para gara…
Entrepreneurs in the making: Indigenous entrepreneurship and the governance of hope in Chile
Over the last three decades, national governments and international agencies have introduced a growing number of entrepreneurial programs as a panacea for problems of economic precariousness and exclusion. This article illustrates some of the effects of entrepreneurial discourses and state actions among Mapuche rural residents in Chile. I argue that becoming an entrepreneur is an open-ended process in which state-supported microenterprises consol…
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 …
Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America ed. by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía
Reviewed by: Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America ed. by Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía Piergiorgio Di Giminiani and Viviana Huiliñir-Curío Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía, eds., Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 282 pp. Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard and Juan Javier Rivera Andía, eds., Indigenous…
Introduction: Translating Environments
Far from being inert materials activated by human ingenuity, natural resources come to be made and unmade through ongoing processes of translation, through which they acquire new potentialities and meanings. In this introduction, we review the key concept of translation for anthropology and explore some of its multiple analytical possibilities in the context of human-environment relations. Based on insights offered by the articles in this collect…
Can natives be settlers? Emptiness, settlement and indigeneity on the settler colonial frontier in Chile
Under settler colonialism, dispossession is enabled by discursive strategies aimed at curtailing indigenous entitlement to land. One such strategy is the mutual determination of the native-settler categories whereby the native status is bound to a condition of ahistorical emplacement to specific tracts of land, while settlers can claim native status towards the nation state as a whole. The settler-native dichotomy fails to account for the possibi…
Nueva normalidad, vieja precariedad: La crisis pandémica en Santiago de Chile
The Limits of Care
Drawing on the experiences of caring in agriculture and forestry among Mapuche landholders of Chile, this article advances a definition of care as an act of relating intervening mutual articulations of vitality. Caring for nonhumans entails a reflexive awareness of the ontological and ethical limits of human care, limits made visible by the nonhumans’ potentials to respond to our actions and affect us. Reflections on the limits of care foster an …
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…
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…
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