La tierra rural en Río Negro: historia y antropología

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present the preliminary results of an applied interdisciplinary research project which is being developed subjected to an agreement between the National University of Río Negro and the Legislature of the Province of Río Negro since August 2014. The overall objective of the project is to settle both the historical and anthropological contexts of the emerging conflicts related to land in Río Negro, by analyzing the relationship between the unequal distribution of tenure, land and natural resources that result in an uneven citizenship in the province. This has social effects both in the present and the future of the Río Negro population. In this article we introduce, first, the research methodology implemented in the project and then move to the preliminary results which are grouped in three lines. First, we start with the description of the nature of the demands received by the Commission for the Research on the Transfer of Rural Land at the Legislature of Río Negro between 2012 and 2014 and then link them to issues of a general nature. Then, we will address the historical processes that influence the differential accesses to land in the present. Finally, we present the hermeneutical analysis of two provincial laws to be applied in today's conflicts: Law 279 which establishes the regime of Government Lands and the so called Indigenous integral Law 2,287.