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WOMEN’S ANDEAN SOCCER: A TRANSLOCAL SPORT SPRACTICE
FÚTBOL FEMENINO ANDINO: UNA PRÁCTICA DEPORTIVA TRANSLOCAL
Andrea Álvarez Díaz and José Miguel Villegas Robertson
This article aims to contribute, from the perspective of social studies on sports and culture, some insights about Andean women’s soccer in the Chilean north. Elements of the discussion about sports and gender are presented to understand, in an intercultural context, the soccer practice of Aymara women from an intersectional perspective. Through a multi-situated ethnography, translocal migratory dynamics are addressed, and the historical development of Andean women’s soccer in the Region of Tarapacá is described. Different translocal territorial sports spaces are described. We close the text by presenting the cultural and sporting trajectory of an Aymara player, highlighting the multi-sited and translocal nature of soccer practice.
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FAMILY FARMERS, AND AFTERWARDS? THE IMPACT OF THE INCLUSION OF INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE STRUCTURE
AGRICULTORES FAMILIARES, ¿Y DESPUÉS? IMPACTO DE LA INCLUSIÓN DE ORGANIZACIONES INDÍGENAS A LA ESTRUCTURA ESTATAL
In this article I examine the establishment in Argentina of the paradigm of what has been described, since mid-2000, as the Family Farming sector. From an ethnographic approach, I consider in particular the structure and functioning of the Family Farming Department, and I examine how this office related to the indigenous organization Qullamarka in the Salta province. I pay attention to the ways in which this organization was reformulated within a political context in which, to some extent, the emergence and development of grassroots organizations was favored, while at the same time there was a structure that limited and shaped its functioning. I observe the ways in which some indigenous communities were incorporated as family agriculturalists to public policies and how this reconfiguration modified their relation with the state, both at the provincial and national levels, as well as the impact that this had inside their own organization.
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