Abstract

NUNEZ, PAULA GABRIELA; LEMA, CAROLINA  and  MICHEL, CAROLINA. Patagonian animality and modernity at the margins. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2019, n.32, pp.81-101. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n32.05.

This article explores how hierarchical and biased acknowledgement of animal worlds has an impact on Argentinian Patagonian modernity, giving rise to unequal valuations of society. This is examined in two processes. One examines how a social sector is situated in an irrational animality that justifies a permanent wardship; the other looks at the valuation of some animals like development actors and agents, while others are condemned to extinction. This antagonistic human-animal valuation is explored on a documentary corpus made up of scientific studies, censal data, and regulations, from the constitution of Patagonia as a state at the end of the 20th century up to present.

Keywords : Patagonia; animality; late incorporation; knowledge.

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