Territorial violence against indigenous communities in Cordoba (Argentina)

Abstract

Along with the struggles of workers, women, peasants, LGBTTIQ+ collectives, Afro groups, the struggle of indigenous peoples throughout the continent has existed and been sustained for centuries. Since the Spanish conquest, the territorial dispossession promoted was based on a systematic plan of physical, material and symbolic erasure/domination of our peoples, marginalized and subalternized first by the colonial and capitalist structure, and then without discontinuity, during the formation of the national and provincial state. At the beginning of this century, practices and representations that reproduce the colonial, heteronormative, patriarchal and capitalist foundational violence still continue in the bodies-territories of indigenous families and communities, expressed in multiple and diverse forms of violence that we call territorial violence. We are particularly interested in making visible and recovering some experiences and reflections on the processes and matrices that sustain this Territorial Violence and that crosses body-territory, we position from our understanding/feeling/knowledge and in dialogue with some of the keys proposed by the decolonial and gender perspectives.Along with the struggles of workers, women, peasants, LGBTTIQ+ collectives, Afro groups, the struggle of indigenous peoples throughout the continent has existed and been sustained for centuries. Since the Spanish conquest, the territorial dispossession promoted was based on a systematic plan of physical, material and symbolic erasure/domination of our peoples, marginalized and subalternized first by the colonial and capitalist structure, and then without discontinuity, during the formation of the national and provincial state. At the beginning of this century, practices and representations that reproduce the colonial, heteronormative, patriarchal and capitalist foundational violence still continue in the bodies-territories of indigenous families and communities, expressed in multiple and diverse forms of violence that we call territorial violence. We are particularly interested in making visible and recovering some experiences and reflections on the processes and matrices that sustain this Territorial Violence and that crosses body-territory, we position from our understanding/feeling/knowledge and in dialogue with some of the keys proposed by the decolonial and gender perspectives.