Browsing by Author "Nunez, Andres"

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    Discourse of development in Patagonia-Aysen: conservation and protection of nature as the renewed devices of colonization. Chile, XX-XXI centuries
    (UNIV BARCELONA, DEPT GEOGRAFIA HUMANA, 2014) Nunez, Andres; Aliste, Enrique; Bello, Alvaro
    This paper proposes that the territory of Patagonia-Aysen (Chile) is not naturally a peripheral area but - instead- the result of a historical-geographical production that constructed it in a peripheral spatiality. That hypothesis is sustained on the following question: Is it possible that the territory of Patagonia-Aysen thinks its peripheral condition based on physical and political criteria, ignoring the discursive frameworks that these criteria use to define this border condition? From this perspective, it is important to pay attention at the production processes of geographic representations that arise in specific temporal contexts. One of these discourses, purpose of this text, is the discourse of development from the conservation and protection of nature that ends up becoming a new form of colonization for the region. Investigating in the foundations of this current territorial discourse is the main focus of the research presented in this article.
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    Stitching together the nation's fabric during the Chile uprisings: towards an alter-geopolitics of flags and everyday nationalism
    (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2021) Benwell, Matthew C.; Nunez, Andres; Amigo, Catalina
    The Chile uprisings in late 2019 and early 2020 saw protests on a scale unprecedented in its democratic era, with citizens taking to the streets and social media to express their grievances, centred on vast inequalities and injustices inherent to the neoliberal Chilean state. They did so through creative performance and the deployment of objects and symbols that came to signify and embody their struggle. Among these was the black flag, an appropriated version of the Chilean national flag. We use this provocative object to show how flags can be deployed by national citizenries to generate certain affective atmospheres of shame, mourning and despair directed at the nation. Furthermore, we show how citizens were actively involved in designing and making flags that expressed their feelings about the nation - a process that was, at times, cathartic, and which also involved reimagining the Chilean nation. Scholars of everyday nationalism have emphasised the individual agencies of national citizens, the materialities of objects like national flags and the atmospheres that can emanate from them, yet this existing research has placed less attention on the collective, subversive interventions of citizens that attempt to (re)define and (re)think the nation. Conversely, alter-geopolitics (Koopman, 2011) has explicitly encouraged political geographers to draw attention to grassroots interventions that bring bodies together to resist state (in)security and build alternative non-violent securities. We argue, then, that everyday nationalism's sensitivity to agency, bodies (both human and non-human) and affective national atmospheres can be brought into productive dialogue with alter-geopolitics, to underline the political potentialities of national flags and the ways they can be collectively engaged by national citizenries. National flags can be (re)appropriated from the ground up, by citizens, in ways that invest them with potential to critique, provoke and protest against the 'nation-state'. They can also do much more than this, putting forward alternative visions and imaginations of the nation, as well as reanimating ideas about national citizenship and political participation.
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    THE LAND OF THE WATERSHED: MOVING BORDERS and imaginary territorial in nation building. CHILE. XVIII-XIX
    (UNIV BARCELONA, DEPT GEOGRAFIA HUMANA, 2012) Nunez, Andres
    The definition of imaginary places from territorial constructed so significarlos hegemonic ends up reading about abstract and normalizing. However, smaller spaces remain and pose a Local rationality whose dynamic forwards in a dialectic to its own region and broader referential contexts. In the construction of the nation, this relationship is expressed from the existence of territorial representations marked by diversity of riverine regions, called here the river country, with other larger scale, as was the building of a country homogeneous, integrated and unified the country in the nation. Investigating the process of territorialization and re-territorialization around the nation in formation with a specific case study associated with the normal border Patagonian Chile and Argentina, as well as highlight the existence of borders moving from one process, is the focus of the research problem formulated by