De despliegues y saturaciones. Sobre la militarización como categoría política

Abstract

This paper reflects on the modalities of intervention of the security forces in two events that occurred in January 2017 on the Pu Lof en Resistencia in the department of Cushamen, province of Chubut, Argentina. It addresses the question of whether these forms of policing can eventually be defined as militarized. The article begins with a presentation on the configuration of the relations between different actors— Mapuche communities, private individuals, provincial state, national state, courts and police—in the province of Chubut. Then, it explores the diversity of approaches and definitions proposed on the concept of militarization in the political and academic agendas of Argentina, in order to relate it to the perspective of policing. The definition of "mlilitarization" is also approached from the perspective of the members of the Pu Lof in Resistance who have been the object of interventions and operations, recovering aspects of the legal cases associated with these events and a series of interviews with its members. Finally, some questions and proposed contributions to the concepts of militarization and policing are established, considering the actions of judicial agencies.