Re-cognizing the plurality of voices on rural Northwestern Argentina:

an approach from the global south’s perspectives

Abstract

The following work presents the analysis and subsequent interpretation of three case studies with rural and peasant communities of the Argentine Northwest (NOA). For this, we use interpretive tools of the theories and epistemologies of the South, since these communities - in some cases and in different political and temporal contexts - were and continue to be violated and/or traversed by hegemonic logics that universalize practices, knowledge, meanings and customs. From the analysis and reflection on such experiences, we expose possibilities of a real equal treatment to another oppressed, excluded persons (peasants, native people), starting from an epistemological and political turn that allows to re-know that place of enunciation (making their struggles and resistances visible) that was and still is denied. The encounter and dialogue between these investigations is a strategic contribution to  visibilize the cultural diversity and other ways of linking with social groups that for different reasons were and continue to be overwhelmed by State policies and agents that concentrate power.

ARK CAICYT: https://id.caicyt.gov.ar/ark:/s16688090/ghuo0lan1