La espera desobediente: análisis de un caso etnográfico sobre una comunidad mapuche en Bariloche (Río Negro)

Abstract

Waiting as a category of analysis has been thought by different authors as a condition imposed on subordinate groups by state agencies and private entities. Based on an ethnographic analysis with a Mapuche community in Bariloche (Río Negro), in this work we are interested in reflecting on what happens while awaiting a response or solution to a particular territorial conflict. By making visible the consequences and negative effects that waiting has as a control and social demarcation for this community, we propose, at the same time, to investigate the ways in which it also becomes a space to rethink the inequalities and injustices experienced. In other words, to account for the ways in which waiting becomes an instance of disobedience and abandonment of the very conditions imposed by subalterization.