Deforesting the forest
Territory and relations in the Argentinean Chaco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2285378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Tola (0000-0002-6777-4575, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-254 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jlca.12739 |
| OpenAlex | W4402388673 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
This article examines in depth the nuances of the Toba (Qom) people's territorial claims over the Argentinean Chaco. Ethnographic fieldwork carried out from 1997 to the present in Qom communities in the center of the Argentinean Chaco allows me to analyze the relationships that these communities have maintained and continue maintaining with their territory since their insertion into the regional economy after the Chaco's colonization. The analysis of the alternation of destructive and protective practices shows us the Qom cosmological understandings of human-forest relations and the ambiguities of their coexistence in which Indigenous people, the nation-state, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), settlers, and nonhuman beings participate. I propose that the forest, rather than being seen by the Qom people as a common good to be protected amid a planetary crisis, is a relation within relations intersected by ambiguity. This article aims to contribute to studies on the particularities of Indigenous people standing against the destruction that the Anthropocene has brought, avoiding unitary ideas about the Anthropocene
Anthropocene · Archaeology · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Unitary state · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Indigenous Cultures and History · Law · Ecology
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
Indigenous Climate Change Studies
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
L'“Evangelio”
Toba Pentecostalism Revisited
Sorcery, Revenge, and Anti-Revenge
Beyond Nature and Culture
Staying with the Trouble
The Empire of Love
Ontological Conflicts and the Stories of Peoples in Spite of Europe
The difficult art of composing worlds (and of replying to objections)
Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo
Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene
Afinidades e diferenças
Entre el futuro que ya llegó y el pasado que nunca pasó
Donos demais
O bom patrão e o inimigo voraz
A predação, a reciprocidade e o caso das Guianas
Os pronomes cosmológicos e o perspectivismo ameríndio
O dois e seu múltiplo
From the Enemy's Point of View
Slaves without Masters? Arawakan Dynasties among the Chiriguano (Bolivian Chaco, Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)
Sens dessus dessous, Organisation sociale et spatiale des Chimane d'Amazonie bolivienne
Lugares parientes
The Shifting Middle Ground
Cuidando la Patagonia Azul
Between conservation and care
Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia
The making of a conservation frontier
"Our Land Is Not for Sale!" Contesting Oil and Translating Environmental Politics in Amazonian Ecuador
Conserving and Extracting Nature
Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Andes
Chronically Unstable Bodies
Making Kin Out Of Others In Amazonia
The Climate of History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |