Browsing by Author "Turen, Valentina"

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    A crisis of authenticity: Becoming entrepreneurial and the quest for "cultural appropriateness" among the Mapuche
    (2024) Galvez, Marcelo Gonzalez; Gallegos, Fernanda; Turen, Valentina; Quezada, Constanza
    Based on multisite ethnographic work between 2018 and 2020, this article examines entrepreneurship promotion policies developed by the Chilean state directed at Mapuche people. We direct attention to how the notion of authenticity works as a hinge between Mapuche people, historical heritage, nongovernmental organizations, and public policymakers in their promotion of microentrepreneurship as a form of overcoming poverty and achieving full inclusion of Indigenous people in Chilean society. The negotiation processes concerning authenticity bring together people's aspiration to become entrepreneurs as authentic Mapuche and those seeking to initiate a "proper Mapuche business." Authenticity, its recognition and contestation, appears as a central tenet in the formation of a particular entrepreneurial self that combines entrepreneurs' aspirations for a better life with a simultaneous seeking of an appropriate sense of being Mapuche, with acknowledgment from others. In the process, the meaning of authenticity goes beyond a primordialist understanding of the term, acquiring polysemy and affecting the arena of Indigenous entrepreneurship, as other aspects of contemporary Mapuche lives.
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    The tension of intention: Events (apparently) univocal and incommensurable evidence in Central Chile
    (2023) Galvez, Marcelo Gonzalez; Turen, Valentina; Gallegos, Fernanda
    Considering 2017's wildfires, that completely destroyed the town of Santa Olga, in this paper we attempt to address the apparent agreement that exists regarding the intentionality behind the catastrophe, which would hide a divergence linked to the motivations behind that intentionality. This disagreement allows us, at the same time, to perform, firstly, an exploration about the notion of evidence, considering how it is inextricable from the worlds it indicates. Secondly, in doing so, we can disunify Santa Olga's disaster, and to understand it necessarily as a multiple event, in which the worlds that are intersected, when they fold, appear in their difference. This is thanks to an ethnographic reconceptualization of fire.