Sheep Sovereignties
The Colonization of the Falkland Islands/Malvinas, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego, 1830s–1910s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11877693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alberto Harambour-Ross (Austral University of Chile, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.351 |
| OpenAlex | W2594838277 |
| ISBN | 9780199366439 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
From the moment the expedition of Magellan gave Patagonia its name, it became a land where European fantasies and fears dwelled. A no man’s land inhabited by giant anthropophagites located at the antipodes of civilization, this steppe swept by icy winds was not transformed into a colonial setting until the 19th century. The territory then became the object of an ongoing territorial dispute between the new states of Argentina and Chile, whose efforts to establish sovereignty as landowners languished until the late 1870s. Nomadic indigenous sovereignties had faced slow Western expansion on the continent; here, they were swiftly replaced by sheep. On the continent, the Tehuelche were displaced; on the island of Tierra del Fuego, the Selknam faced extermination. Sheep sovereignty, fully integrated into imperial networks, was the driving force behind local state building. Just as the British pastoral colonization of the Falkland Islands conditioned any possibility of permanent presence in the South Atlantic, the sheep industry, arriving swiftly in the shape of capital, persons, and animals, allowed for the Argentinization and Chileanization of what was once the frontier of civilization. In this sense, the occupation of the Falklands/Malvinas, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego may be considered successive colonial processes that form part of the same frontier drive as the Empire in capital
Ancient history · Archaeology · Capital (architecture · Civilization · Colonialism · Colonization · Empire · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Sovereignty · Tierra · Canadian Identity and History · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Law · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |