Crafting Territories
Public Servants as Catalysts of Identity
Keywords:
Identity politics, Territorial approach, Development programme, Local political arena, Public servants
Abstract
This article explores how the technical work and bureaucratic decisions of front-line state officials implementing development programs participate in the production and circulation of identity and territorial categories. The execution of a participatory methodology for the production of ‘talking maps’ carried out by officials in charge of the Indigenous Territorial Development Program (PDTI) on Quehui Island, in the archipelago of Chiloé, strengthened the will of one of the users groups participating in the activity to form a neighbours association that represents their own interests. This ethnographic example illustrates how the decentralised state interferes in local political arenas through the application of identity categories and of a topographic approach that does not consider the porosity and permeability of territorial boundaries.Downloads
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Ramírez, M. C. (2010). La antropología de La política pública. Antípoda, 10, 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7440/antipoda10.2010.02
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Sack, R. (1986). Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History. Cambridge University Press.
Shields, R. (2013). Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity. Routledge.
Skrentny, J. D. (2008). Culture and Race/Ethnicity: Bolder, Deeper, and Broader. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 619, 59–77.
Spencer, J. (1997). Post-Colonialism and the Political Imagination. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 3(1), 1–19. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/3034362
Spencer, J. (2007). Anthropology, Politics, and the State: Democracy And Violence In South Asia (First Edition edition). Cambridge University Press.
Storey, D. (2001). Territory: The Claiming of Space (Insights into Human Geography (01 edition). Prentice Hall.
Wade, P. (2010). Race and Ethnicity in Latin America. Pluto Press.
Yashar, D. J. (1998). Contesting Citizenship: Indigenous Movements and Democracy in Latin America. Comparative Politics, 31(1), 23–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/422104
Published
2021-09-24
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Valdivieso, D. (2021). Crafting Territories. Cuadernos De antropología Social, (54). https://doi.org/10.34096/cas.i54.8259
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