Agencia(s) indígena(s) en políticas públicas participativas en Norpatagonia: políticas de comanejo y relevamiento territorial

Abstract

The article analyzes the implementation of participatory and indigenous public policies in Norpatagonia. Articulating the ethnographic approach of co-management policies and territorial survey with analysis of regulations and management documents, it deepens the notions of empowerment, cooptation and participation linked to anessentialized vision of “the indigenous” prevailing in thesepolicies. Fur ther more, it deepens into situated forms of indigenous agency that dispute and question the modeled forms of participation on which these policies are based, evidencing interstices between empowerment and cooptation.