Les newen dans les processus politiques de production et de socialisation de connaissances-ontologies

Abstract

Under the cosmopolitical proposal – focused on possible articulations between divergent worlds or ontologies – this paper aims to analyze the Mapuche- Tehuelche parliament or Futa Trawün as an instance of production, transmission and socialization (ngulantuwün) of knowledge ontologies. In 2002, the indigenous communities and organizations of the province of Chubut (Patagonia, Argentina) decided to resume this ancestral practice in opposition to the private property and mining on their territories. Our interest in these political meetings lies, on the one hand, on the fact that its very existence has been defined from an epistemology understood as Mapuche Tehuelche and, on the other, in the way that the knowledge ontology is renewed as a political practice. Therefore, we consider that the Futa Trawün is an interesting starting point to carry out a situated reflection around the relationship between the political and other epistemic forms of understanding politics.