Entrepreneurs in the making: indigenous entrepreneurship and the governance of hope in Chile

Giminiani, Piergiorgio Di

doi:10.1080/17442222.2018.1463891

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“…From neoliberal New Zealand to neoliberal Chile, Indigenous individuals and groups are finding in entrepreneurialism a potent promise of economic independence from the postcolonial state, and a means to counter racist stereotypes, with the potential to provide the financial basis for greater autonomy and self-determination (see, among others, LaDuke, 2009; Brabazon, 2017; Di Giminiani, 2018). Indigenous groups establish business councils to forge direct connections with potential investors, including the Chinese, as part of a politics of self-affirmation in which oversight of economic activities is understood as a form of sovereignty (Montsion, 2015).…”

Section: Indigeneity Economy and Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet engagements with neoliberal tropes of business acumen and opportunity are set around with astute scepticism and wariness. In Chile, Mapuche leaders view entrepreneurialism with considerable ambivalence and remain sceptical of the state’s ‘governance of hope’ that directs them into free market activities (Di Giminiani, 2018). Indigenous actors too continue to pursue the legal-cartographic strategy of trying to secure control over resources, despite the strategy’s often ambivalent outcomes (Rye and Kurniawan, 2017).…”

Section: Indigenous Lands and Resources Become Investiblementioning

confidence: 99%

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Geography and indigeneity III: Co-articulation of colonialism and capitalism in indigeneity’s economies

Radcliffe

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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In this final report of three, I examine Indigenous peoples’ dynamic co-constitution with contemporary political economy in its manifestations of neoliberalism, resource extractivism, reordering production and labour relations. Indigenous subjects and spaces are not reducible to the status of capitalism’s side-effects, necessitating analytical attention to the co-articulation of colonialism and capitalism in particular, variegated ways. Debates around extractivism, neoliberalism and economic want are hence recent manifestations of 500-year-old disputes over monetary and normative values, resources and livelihoods. Whether as corporations, labourers, welfare recipients, or ambassadors for culturally distinctive forms of livelihoods-exchange, Indigenous peoples occupy complex, relational positions across economic spheres. The paradox of indigeneity’s economies is that Indigenous populations have been constituted as Other to homo oeconomicus, yet their embeddedness within the economic flows, labour processes and forms of accumulation that make the modern world belie any separation. The report ends by raising questions about decolonising accounts of indigeneity’s economies.

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Section: Indigeneity Economy and Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Indigenous Lands and Resources Become Investiblementioning

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Geography and indigeneity III: Co-articulation of colonialism and capitalism in indigeneity’s economies

Radcliffe

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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“…They were the ones in charge of the children's education, and they must therefore salir adelante (move forward). This expression, commonly used to refer to the efforts and will of individuals to ‘escape poverty’ (Di Giminiani, 2018: 259) and cope with difficulties, aligns well with the neoliberal conception of individual responsibility and empowerment currently circulating in Chile.…”

Section: ‘Salir Adelante’mentioning

confidence: 65%

Performing the ‘India Permitida’: The Counter‐Gift of Indigenous Women Targeted by a Corporate Social Responsibility Programme (Chile)

Gajardo

2020

Bull Latin American Res

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Relying on ethnographic data, this article critically analyses the pro‐mining position adopted in Chile's Atacama Region by a group of Diaguita women who benefited from a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme to revive indigenous culture. While the desire to escape from poverty (salir adelante, moving forward) appears as the main reason for participating, the benefits generated a sense of indebtedness resulting in allegiance to the company. The investigation also shows how this programme played a part in building a scenario in which indigenous females perform subjects apparently more suited than men to the neoliberal and multiculturalist governmentality of the Chilean State, whose politics favours mining.

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“…Neoliberal multicultural governance allows marginalized social groups such as Indigenous peoples to affirm themselves by being offered limited development projects as a strategy both to reduce government spending and to develop self-improvement practices (Hale, 2005). However, more recent studies identify neoliberal multiculturalism by its inclination towards bureaucratization and commercialization of Indigenous cultures under the logic of the neoliberal market and the sanctioning of seemingly "authentic" cultural expressions of indigeneity (Di Giminiani, 2018). As illustrated by the cases of Choyituiñ Warria Meu and Mahuidache, compliance with specific bureaucratic criteria led to the provision of urban spaces through commodatum agreements, whilst We Dakin Püllü is still undergoing negotiations.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Indigenising the city together: ethnic place production in Santiago de Chile

Brablec

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The article examines the process of space appropriation and resignification by Indigenous migrant groups in cities. As a result of the repeated use of an urban space over time for cultural activities perceived as emblematic of a common identity, Indigenous individuals confer meanings onto space based on a social construction of their homeland, collectively resignifying the space, and transforming it into what is presented as a symbolically-based "ethnic place". Building on the literature of place identity and original empirical information gathered through ethnographic fieldwork in Santiago de Chile, the article discusses three different paths followed by the Mapuche to gain spaces and produce their own ethnic places in the city, namely, institutional approach, illegal land occupation and symbolic space appropriation. By doing this, the Mapuche are giving new meanings to their identity while shaping the conception of belonging to what constitutes or not the current Indigenous territory.

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Entrepreneurs in the making: indigenous entrepreneurship and the governance of hope in Chile

Cited by 16 publications

References 38 publications

Geography and indigeneity III: Co-articulation of colonialism and capitalism in indigeneity’s economies

Geography and indigeneity III: Co-articulation of colonialism and capitalism in indigeneity’s economies

Performing the ‘India Permitida’: The Counter‐Gift of Indigenous Women Targeted by a Corporate Social Responsibility Programme (Chile)

Indigenising the city together: ethnic place production in Santiago de Chile

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