Memories of water in Camiña (Tarapaca, Northern Chile): Andeanities, ancestral defenses, and rethorics of coloniality

Authors

  • Francisca Urrutia Universidad de Tarapacá
  • Mauricio Uribe Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This presentation entails the practice of memory as heterogeneous times and spaces which are embodied through historical and contingent contexts. The former through the diversity of local paths related to specific fights carried out by Andean Communities among the territory of Camiña. Our exposition tries to move away conclusive and dichotomist stances to denaturalize categories, destabilize hierarchies, and decenter paradigms. In contrast, we propose an analysis from the myriad of internal process that shows the variability and the mutability in the assemblies of Andean world in the Neoliberal context of contemporary Chile.

Keywords:

Andean communities, environmental, identities, social memory