The Land 'Wars' in Twenty-First Century Patagonia. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aliaga, Cristian
• Is Part Of: Journal of Latin American cultural studies. Volume 28:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 139
• Page End: 151
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Patagonia -- extractivism -- Mapuche -- Tehuelche -- First Peoples; Latin America -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Amérique latine -- Civilisation -- Périodiques; 306.098
• DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2018.1493440
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9325

Abstract

Abstract : A front line report from the struggles between the First Peoples of the Southern Cone and the new extractivist paradigm. A prominent Patagonian journalist and poet reports on privatisation, state repression, and the offshoring of territorial and subsoil rights, as well as ongoing legal cases including the death of Santiago Maldonado and the detention of Facundo Jones Huala. Legacies of the "Conquest of the Desert" and a future Argentina without the far south.