Abstract

MANZANELLI, Macarena Del Pilar. “We are all one big family”: political-emotional communities and public denunciations for the territory. Analysis of cases of Diaguita peoples in the Argentine Northwest. Runa [online]. 2023, vol.44, n.2, pp.173-190.  Epub July 01, 2023. ISSN 1851-9628.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/runa.v44i2.12014.

The work investigates the framework of the public and the intimate-private by analyzing roles and family-community ties of two Diaguita towns (northwestern Argentina) and their public actions to denounce in judicial instances in the framework of a murder (2018-2019); lack of final judgment by the Judiciary (2019); and an eviction attempt (2020-2021). Product of an ethnographic investigation with analysis of publications in social networks, it is identified that the public is an ambiguous arena with overlaps between intimate-family and community ties. Each town, through the formation of political-affective communities, resignified a mere death as the political death of a family member/community authority; and to an eviction as a systematic action inserted in historical frameworks of indigenous subalternization. These communities are spatially-temporally territorialized by a memory of resistance. Its political potential was to show and question the other family: the political-judicial-landlord power that violates and violates their rights.

Keywords : Private area; Public; State; Political violence; Original People.

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