‘Indigenous people don’t have boundaries’ : reborderings, fire management, and productions of authenticities in indigenous landscapes

Sletto, Bjorn

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dc.creator	Sletto, Bjorn
dc.date	2009
dc.date.accessioned	2018-11-09T13:30:21Z
dc.date.available	2018-11-09T13:30:21Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://beu.extension.unicen.edu.ar/xmlui/handle/123456789/343
dc.description	Participatory mapping has allowed indigenous groups to produce and to varying degrees distribute counter- representations of indigenous landscapes, including boundaries that delineate ‘their’ lands from those of the state and other indigenous groups. Through counter-mapping, indigenous groups thus continue to produce boundaries that are, in many ways, products of historical struggles and tensions within indigenous communities, and which also attempt to reconfigure relations with a plethora of state agencies and other external actors. Thus such cartographic representations must be understood as contested, formalized representations that to varying degrees reflect (re)constructions of boundaries that assume different symbolic meanings in different social and historical contexts. Similarly, the power of state boundaries is contingent on fractures in state power, including contestations and conflicts of interest between and within state agencies. As in the case of the Gran Sabana, Venezuela, more invisible boundaries often have greater potential to perpetuate state influence in indigenous landscapes. This paper draws on the literature in postmodern geopolitics and Gramscian perspectives on state power to grapple with the social production of boundaries and relations of power in indigenous landscapes, and to critique the traditional binary posited between state (hegemonic) and indigenous (‘counter’) maps.	es_ES
dc.description	Fil: Sletto, Bjorn. Program in Community and Regional Planning, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, EEUU	es_ES
dc.format	application/pdf	es_ES
dc.language	eng	es_ES
dc.publisher	University of Texas at Austin	es_ES
dc.relation	10.1177/1474474008101519	es_ES
dc.rights	Ninguna	es_ES
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es_ES
dc.rights	Ninguna	es_ES
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es_ES
dc.subject	Fire management	es_ES
dc.subject	Gramsci	es_ES
dc.subject	Gran Sabana	es_ES
dc.subject	Indigenous mapping	es_ES
dc.subject	Venezuela	es_ES
dc.title	‘Indigenous people don’t have boundaries’ : reborderings, fire management, and productions of authenticities in indigenous landscapes	es_ES