Abstract Panel


Authors Information
SequenceTypeName TitleFirst NameLast NameDepartmentInstitute / Affiliation
1 Author Prof. Eugenia Maria Tersa Morey Ciencias Antropológicas ICA, FFyL, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Abstract Information
TrackID
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IUAES23_ABS_T9959
Abstract Theme
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P079 - Futures and communities: new anthropological perspectives.
Abstract Title
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Community and state devices to imagine a future without violence for the Wichí women of Chaco, Argentina
Short Abstract
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In this work on the construction of the Wichí women's community that is shaped after experiencing sexual violence. The experiences of resilience, resistance, organized in defense of bodies and territories focus on violence within community territories, exposing the contradiction of autonomous spaces and unequal ties with society. We focus on the projection of community that reorganizes ties between inequality, body and territory and imagine a future.
Long Abstract
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In this work we propose to highlight the construction of the community of Wichí women that is shaped from the common experiences of sexual violence determined by belonging to the Wichí people according to its protagonists. From the practices defined by the common work in the fabrics of the chaguar, to the territorial defenses and of the native forests, the voices of women and girls, Wichí children encounter sexual violence as a parallel to extractivist action. Parallel to a political-economic model, the violence that disciplines and modifies the ways of inhabiting the territory from the bodies unfolds and shows. Bulldozers and group rapes, show a perverse game of the outside and inside of the community, they place an extractionist look as a possible way of understanding some links where the State does not guarantee full territorial rights, nor care for people in an integral way. The experiences of resilience, resistance, organized in defense of bodies and territories also tell that it is generations of great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers and sisters who begin to raise their voices to denounce the violence within the community territories, exposing the contradiction of autonomous spaces within the framework of a system that overwhelms all social ties that imply cooperation and coherence in defense of life. In our work that began in 2005, we have monitored more than 25 cases that became public and we focused on the projection of the community that, in the stories of the victims, reorganized ties between women and intergenerational ones to settle the two scales of inequality configured between body and territory.

Abstract Keywords
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Future, Community, Violence