Abstract

NUSSBAUMER, Beatriz. Peoples, Territory and Autonomy: Tensions in the modes of construction of Indigenous People as subjects of rights in Argentina. Trab. soc. [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.425-506. ISSN 1514-6871.

The article aims to analyse the conflicts between different modes of conceiving indigenous peoples as subjects of rights in Argentina. The current reform of the Civil Code and Commercial Procedure enables to recognize the demands of indigenous organizations for new forms of relationship between them and the State. In this debate the pair "community-people" is reviewed towards recognition as collective and political subjects in the national arena. Regarding territorial claims, the pair "land-territory" constitutes an opening for the discussion of the rights of autonomy and control of natural resources, though in a national context of intense disputes over these resources. These debates are the result of some progresses at the international level but also of the diverse local conflicts. Therefore, an analysis of certain dimensions of the emergence process of Huarpe ethnic groups in the Province of Mendoza is presented in order to illustrate the global-local relationship and to identify how cultural provincial contexts imprints particular meanings and practices to indigenous issues, especially to Peoples, Territory and Autonomy.

Keywords : Indigenous rights; Civil code reform; Indigenous People; Territory; Autonomy; Huarpes.

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