Abstract

GIORDANO, Mariana  and  GUSTAVSSON, - Anne. (Adventure, colonization and capitalist expansion.Visual and textual production in three expeditions to Gran Chaco). Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2022, n.61, pp.135-164. ISSN 1668-8104.

The different portions of the Gran Chaco were belatedly incorporated into the respective national states and therefore, into the capitalist system. This paper analyses the relationship between travel, adventure, and the colonizing gaze of the region. The visual and textual sources we examine were produced by three travel experiences: Viaje al Río Bermejo (Trip to Bermejo River) (approx. 1915) which resulted in a travelogue with the same title, made by Max Glücksmann; Haeger Expedition (1920) which produced among other sources, a film in 1922, reversed in 1950; and the Montt & Fialho Expedition (1924), with a photographic album that includes a travel diary, we address. The analysis of these materials aims to ponder the adventurous or technical discourse with a gaze on the occupation and exploitation of the territory. The colonialist matrix is distinguished from the discourses and practices of a colonizing interest linked to the creation of colonies or territorial exploitations. Consequently, the main issues addressed in this paper are the modes of access to the territory and the construction of visual or symbolic cartographies; the roles of transport and infrastructure; the generation of agricultural colonies, and the availability of labour in these new spaces of capitalist expansion; the racialized image constructed on the indigenous population, which claims the colonialist and colonizing structure

Keywords : Adventure;; Colonization;; Gran Chaco;; Travel;; Visuality.

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