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Accepted Paper:
The city is the colony. On systematic erasure and Indigenous contestations in urban contexts from the Southern Cone
Andrés González Dinamarca
(University of Oxford)
By exploring different cityscapes within historical Mapuche territory, serving as a background to twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, I show how ephemeral contestations of hegemonic discourses sediment new collective senses, aiming to navigate unpredictability amidst ongoing colonial relations
Paper Abstract:
Some monuments have recently been toppled while others have been reaffirmed, making explicit the conventional narratives that build the urban space and those which are to be permanently excluded. By exploring different cityscapes within historical Mapuche territory, serving as a background to twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, I show how ephemeral contestations of these hegemonic discourses sediment new collective senses, aiming to navigate unpredictability amidst ongoing colonial relations. The systematic efforts of invisible yet ubiquitous forces to erase the erupting departures from standard monocultures, raise questions about the reconcilability of overlapping ways of existing on the land, while simultaneously bringing to the forefront the extent to which modern cities have inherited the structures of settler-colonial dominance.