Guía práctica para las luchas comunitarias:

Carina Jofré; María Clara Larisgoitia; Lucila Gómez Vázquez; María Florencia  Pessio Vázquez; Evelyn Carrizo Bustos; Erica Flavia Gasetúa; Marisa Romero

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Published: Jan 30, 2025

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Prior Consultation, Indigenous Peoples and Communities, Mining Neo-Extractivism

Carina Jofré

National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Regional Institute for Planning and Habitat (IRPHA), National University of San Juan (UNSJ), National University of La Rioja (UNLar)

María Clara Larisgoitia

National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), National University of La Rioja (UNLar)

Lucila Gómez Vázquez

University of Buenos Aires (UBA)

María Florencia Pessio Vázquez

Metropolitan Autonomous University, Xochimilco Unit (UAM-X)

Evelyn Carrizo Bustos

National University of La Rioja (UNLar)

Erica Flavia Gasetúa

National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Institute of Regional Sociocultural Studies (IRES), National University of Catamarca (UNCa).

Marisa Romero

Riojan Capital Assembly

Abstract

In this brief practical guide for community fights we want to test a different approach that goes beyond the reproduction of legal or legal discourse on Prior, Free and Informed Consultation for Indigenous Peoples. This proposal allows us to identify scenarios and concrete practices observed over these years in San Juan and La Rioja (Argentine Republic) in territories threatened by large-scale mining. Our practical guide puts emphasis on the transgressions of the Consultation Previa that we were able to recognize in our visits and conversations during these last three years within the framework of the University Extension Project called Making Community.

How to Cite

Jofré, C., Larisgoitia, M. C., Gómez Vázquez, L., Pessio Vázquez, M. F., Carrizo Bustos, E., Gasetúa, E. F., & Romero, M. (2025). Guía práctica para las luchas comunitarias. Memorias Disidentes. Revista De Estudios críticos Del Patrimonio, Archivos Y Memorias, 2(3), 231-250. Retrieved from https://memoriaeuropae.unsj.edu.ar/index.php/Mdis/article/view/Guiapracticaparalasluchas.MD%2Cenero2025

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Vol 2 No 3 (2025): Elusive Archives, Dissident Bodies, Elusive Patrimonies and Devastated Territories

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Author Biographies

Carina Jofré, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Regional Institute for Planning and Habitat (IRPHA), National University of San Juan (UNSJ), National University of La Rioja (UNLar)

Warpe activist, daughter of the Warpe Community of the Kuyum Territory, of the Warpe People. She is a member of the Plurinational Network of Anti-Extractivist Feminists of the South. She holds a PhD in Human Sciences with a major in Social and Cultural Studies and a degree in Archaeology. She completed postgraduate studies at CODESRIA (Senegal) and postdoctoral studies at the University of Cauca and at the Universidad Autónoma Intercultural Indígena (UAIIN) of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC), in Colombia. She is currently an Adjunct Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) with a place of work at the Regional Institute of Planning and Habitat (IRPHA) of the National University of San Juan. She is a regular professor in charge of the Chair of Theory and Methodology of Archaeological Research and the Chair of Impact and Archaeological Heritage in the History Degree at the National University of La Rioja. She is a founding member of the Center for Studies and Research in Anthropology and Archaeology (CEIAA), the Network of Information and Discussion on Archaeology and Heritage (RIDAP) and the RIDAP Feminist Collective. She is one of the promoters of the creation of the Indigenous Advisory Council of the National University of San Juan (2019). She is one of the editors responsible for the Memorias Disidentes Journal. From 2021 to 2024, she directed two editions of the University Outreach project: Making Community: Free, Prior and Informed Consultation against the neo-extractivist advance in La Rioja and San Juan.

María Clara Larisgoitia, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), National University of La Rioja (UNLar)

Professor of Anthropological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is currently a PhD candidate in Social and Agrarian Studies at the National University of Córdoba and is a CONICET doctoral fellow with a place of work at the Museum of Anthropological and Natural Sciences of the National University of La Rioja. She actively participates in different research groups. Her topics of study focus on socio-environmental conflicts and disputes over water in the context of neo-extractivist progress. In addition, she is a founding member of the Cuchiyaco Cooperative, a producer of agroecological foods in La Rioja, Argentina. Between 2021-2023 she has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Chair of Theory and Methodology of Archaeological Research and the Chair of Impact and Archaeological Heritage in the History Degree at the National University of La Rioja.

Lucila Gómez Vázquez, University of Buenos Aires (UBA)

Professor of Anthropological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Currently, she is a doctoral fellow at the UBA and actively participates in various research networks, both in San Juan and La Rioja as well as in Buenos Aires. She is pursuing a degree in Anthropological Sciences at the same university, with a focus on issues of identity and socio-environmental conflicts arising from mining in Jáchal, San Juan. She is a photographer and has held photographic art exhibitions in public spaces with the help of the National Arts Fund.

María Florencia Pessio Vázquez, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Xochimilco Unit (UAM-X)

Born in General Alvear, south of Mendoza. She has a degree in History from the National University of San Juan. Currently, she lives in Mexico City with a scholarship from the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (CONAHCYT), to carry out postgraduate studies at the Autonomous Metropolitan University - Xochimilco Unit. She is a member of the Center for Studies and Research in Anthropology and Archaeology (CEIAA), from where she participates in various research projects developed in the Cuyo region - Argentina, linked to themes of political violence, memories, heritage and neo-extractivisms. She is a member of the Information and Discussion Network on Archaeology and Heritage (RIDAP) and the Feminist Collective of the RIDAP. She is a collaborator in the style correction team of the Memorias Disidentes Magazine. She is part of the Popular Library 2131 of Gral. Alvear. She is a writer of poetry, essays and pedagogical and curatorial material. He works as a teacher at the Higher Education Institute (IES 9-007) in Gral. Alvear, Mendoza.

Evelyn Carrizo Bustos, National University of La Rioja (UNLar)

Advanced student of the Bachelor's Degree in History with a Focus on Archaeology at the National University of La Rioja. She currently works as a student assistant in the Chair of Theory and Methodology of Archaeological Research and the Chair of Impact and Archaeological Heritage in the History Degree at the National University of La Rioja. She is a member of the Center for Studies and Research in Anthropology and Archaeology (CEIAA), a civil association, from where she participates in various research projects developed in the provinces of San Juan and La Rioja, linked to themes of political violence, memories, heritage and neo-extractivism.

Erica Flavia Gasetúa, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Institute of Regional Sociocultural Studies (IRES), National University of Catamarca (UNCa).

Born in La Rioja, Argentina. Daughter of Lita and Ignacio. Murguera, assembly member, mother of a star and many michis (cats) and pichis (dogs) with whom she shares her life. Graduated as a Systems Analyst (2003), she worked teaching computer science and discovered teaching and began the Teaching Degree in History. In that experience with fellow students she experienced community, collective and loving struggle, which led her to join the Asamblea Riojana Capital. With the need for spaces for discussion and information, she completed a degree in History at the National University of Santiago del Estero (UNSE). This community network that gives her shelter extended to other places and with fellow members of the Sumaj Kawsay assembly of Catamarca, where she began a path of research groups entering the Doctorate in Human Sciences at the National University of Catamarca (UNCa). She is currently a CONICET doctoral fellow working at the Institute of Regional Sociocultural Studies (IRES) at UNCa, and is writing a doctoral thesis based on the loving and mystical discovery of being land, hill, river, Ulpisha (little dove), which positions her ethically and politically as an anti-extractivist feminist assembly researcher. She participates in different academic spaces for reflection and research projects with people with whom she has ties of affection and admiration. She is part of the Riojan Capital Assembly and the Plurinational Network of Anti-Extractivist Feminists of the South. She is also a member of the Center for Studies and Research in Anthropology and Archaeology (CEIAA) and the Network of Information and Discussion on Archaeology and Heritage (RIDAP) and the RIDAP Feminist Collective.

Marisa Romero, Riojan Capital Assembly

Lawyer. National State worker and Assembly member of the Riojan Capital Assembly. Mother of three stars and life partner of Roque Silva with whom she forms a multi-species family with Luna and Merlina. Singer and self-taught watercolor painter. She believes that art transforms and improves the people who practice it and in this way it intervenes and generates changes in the artist's environment and society in general. After several experiences of participation in partisan politics, she is hopeful in the construction of a new form of militancy outside of the party and state apparatuses, from where it is possible to transform ourselves into anti-extractivist, anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal political actors.

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