The Group of Studies of Othered and Subordinated Memories
(Grupo
de Estudios sobre Memorias
Alterizadas y Subordinadas, or GEMAS), established in 2008, is a team that brings
together researchers (mostly in Anthropology) from different regions and
universities in Argentina. Its members work with indigenous peoples –and, to a lesser extent,
with other subordinated and othered groups (Afro-descendants and immigrants
from neighbouring countries)
–
on the relations between memory and territory, from approaches anchored in
committed and/or collaborative ethnography (depending on each case). One of the
aims of the group is to generate instances and materials for dissemination that
contribute to stimulate reflection on the effects of hegemony on the processes
of subalternization of indigenous peoples and the dispossession of their
territories. In addition to the research tasks themselves, members of the group
participate in the design, execution, assessment and/or accompaniment of outreach,
knowledge transfer and public policy management and artistic projects,
including a variety of activities and outputs: books, academic articles, dissemination
articles, documentaries, short films, workshops, public talks, radio
programmes, conferences, judicial expert reports, teaching materials, technical
reports, advice, etc.
The Network of Information and Discussion on Archaeology
and Heritage (Red de Información y
Discusión sobre Arqueología y Patrimonio, or RIDAP) is a collective of
critical analysis of the South American reality, integrated by researchers and
working groups interested in dismantling the modern imaginaries that construct
the relationship between heritage, culture, identity and territories. As a
discipline of the Human and Social Sciences, Archaeology contributes to these
imaginaries in various ways. On the one hand, it endorses the production of
cultural heritage linked to processes of growing hierarchisation of differences
and socio-spatial relations. At the same time, it is at the service of the
colonial-patriarchal order of capital which operates as a structuring force of
the global reality.
