Abstract:
Synthesis and bibliography are available in 5 languages:
Dokument 1: Die postkoloniale Frontier: Zur Domestizierung des andinen Pastoralismus. Annäherung an eine postkoloniale Geographie Boliviens (Synopsis)
Dokument 2: The postcolonial frontier: addressing the domestication of Andean pastoralism. Advances towards a postcolonial geography of Bolivia (summary)
Dokument 3: La frontière postcoloniale: Quand à la domestication du pastoralisme Andin. Avances vers une Géographie Postcolonial de Bolivie (Résumé)
Dokument 4: La frontera poscolonial: Enfocando la domesticación del pastoralismo andino. Avances hacia una Geografía Poscolonial de Bolivia (Resumen)
Dokument 5: A fronteira pós-colonial: Focalizando a domesticação do pastoralismo andino. Avanços para uma Geografia Pós-colonial de Bolívia (Resumo)
Dokument 6: Literaturverzeichnis-Bibliografía-Bibliografia-Bibliographie-Bibliography
This synthesis of my dissertation - submitted at the Faculty of Geosciences of the University of Tübingen in 2004 - draws near a Postcolonial Andean Geography and addresses the epistemic as well as ethnocentric horizon of meta-narrative social and scientific discourses on Andean ethnicity and pastorality. It is based on a hetero-narrative regional perspective - namely that of the Aymara-speaking pastoral societies of Carangas/Karankas in the Bolivian Altiplano Central. The field-notion, consequently, includes the pastoral and the pastorologic practitioners. This approach is an attempt to challenge, in particular, conventional geographic rhetoric(s) and to constitute a terrain of disconcertation by assuming a detached observer’s position that is closer connected to cultural sciences and ethnology.
The discussion also draws conclusions from the visualization of persistent modes of allochronism or allogeoism and Othering-techniques from the regional levels in focus - the Altiplano, the Puna, the Central Andes - to a more general level. It confronts different territorial discursive contexts, where conceptualizations of social practice, ethnic structures and pastoral systems are associated with tendencies of domestication of space, and even questions the disciplinary instances and institutionalized locales of articulation of these scientific discourses. The study maintains concreteness in its argumentation and lays bar e.g., the analogies between Latin Americanistic, Andeanistic and Orientalistic constructions and the differences between Pastoralistic and Nomadistic approaches. It also mediates a theoretical feed-back on the general social scientific and cultural-geographic level.
From the deconstructionist view of such a decentred point of departure, the study suggests differing research-political consequences and further-reaching modes of inscription of empathic qualities and reflexive dimensions in a cultural-scientific - and, in particular, a cultural-geographical research-perspective. This suggestion results from the discourse-analytical postulation, that a research-practice localized between colonized and colonizing relevance-systems exposes the conditions of the postcolonial frontier; thereby, causing the structural danger to inscribe itself in regional realities and local bodies as another re-productive component of an ontological violence or a deepening of the (post)colonial traces within the epistemically pre-traced trace-tissue.
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