Territorio y resistencias mapuche en la Norpatagonia extractivista: tensiones entre movilidades forzadas y el retorno al territorio

This event is co-organized with Benjamin Bryce, Department of History, and Latin American Studies. It is asked that you RSVP for this free event here.

Lorena Cañuqueo is a researcher, activist, and member of the Mapuche Nation (the Mariano Epulef Mapuche community). She holds a degree in Social Communication and a PhD in Anthropology and is currently a professor at the National University of Río Negro in Northern Patagonia, Argentina. Her research examines the ongoing effects of the genocide against Indigenous peoples during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as reflected in the present. Specifically, her work explores how these effects manifest in local, provincial, and national policies related to land access and, more recently, in the implementation of extractive projects.

 

Ana Vivaldi’s research brings the politics of indigeneity and race into inquiries into space, the city, and mobilities. Through collaborative ethnography, she investigates artistic challenges to racism and changing forms of racial inequality in Argentina.Her scholarship emerges from long-term relationships with Indigenous people and movements in Argentina, now including Marrón and Afro Latin-American organizations as well. She teaches in the UBC Latin American Studies program and the Department of Sociology.