The Silences of Dispossession

An insightful case study about the effects of capitalism on the indigenous experience in northern Argentina

Informationen zum Autor Mercedes Biocca is a Professor and an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Higher Social Studies (IDAES) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research focuses on rural issues associated with the spread of agribusiness, the different forms of rural existence imposed by the state and the challenges that face indigenous communities in the north of Argentina in the post-neoliberal period. Klappentext An insightful case study about the effects of capitalism on the indigenous experience in northern Argentina Zusammenfassung An insightful case study about the effects of capitalism on the indigenous experience in northern Argentina Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Indigenous Peoples, Agribusiness and the Post-Neoliberal State in Argentina 2. Accumulation by Dispossession and the Everyday Life of Indigenous Peoples 3. Living on the Edges of the Periphery 4. Resistance on the Edge: the Case of the Qom People in Pampa del Indio 5. Acquiescence on the edge: the Case of Moqoit People in Las Tolderías 6. The Actually Existing Agency of Subaltern Groups

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Mercedes Biocca is a Professor and an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Higher Social Studies (IDAES) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her research focuses on rural issues associated with the spread of agribusiness, the different forms of rural existence imposed by the state and the challenges that face indigenous communities in the north of Argentina in the post-neoliberal period.