Naturaleza y naturalización en las luchas políticas de los qom del este formoseño

Abstract

In the last years, our country has been a witness of a remarkably emergency or public presence of indigenous people in the political scene, both national and provincials. One of the central themes on which indigenous processes of collective mobilization and demand base on is the access, use, possession, and property of the natural resources included in the territory occupied or reclaimed. The struggles in which the qom of eastern Formosa are involved in have not been the exception. The aim of this article is to move forward the dynamics of those processes attending to: a. the forms that adopt the mentioned demand in its articulation to the state; b. the meanings of the “indigenous nature” underlying the demand; c. the attributes of the indigenous political subjectivity build as one different, from memories, imaginaries, experiences, and practices of production and reproduction of social life. The interest is to reflect on the set-up of naturalizations that are involved in the production of the political action and consciousness of indigenous people.