La creación de municipios turísticos como reactualización de los despojos indígenas en el área andina de Neuquén: Villa Pehuenia-Moquehue y Villa La Angostura (Argentina)

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the impact of the creation of cities on Mapuce indigenous territory. The study focuses on two case studies located in the Andean area of ​​the province of Neuquén, Argentina, in which touristic activities of national and international relevance take place. It will take into account the processes of indigenous deterritorialization in favor of touristic development, the consequences of the creation of cities in two Mapuce communities, the territorial conflicts and the ways of indigenous integration or exclusion from tourist circuits promoted by the State. To analyze these factors, we have resorted to administrative and judicial state documentation, written press and ethnographic field work. The conclusions of the work are linked to the deterritorializations understood as an updated dispossession in the present. All in all, the paper portrays two processes associated with the creation of cities, the heterogeneity present in the forms of indigenous “inclusion” in touristic activities and the increase of territorial conflict.