Thursday 23 July, 9:00-10:45, 11:30-13:15, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Convenors<\/strong>: Mountain areas worldwide are facing new forms of exploitation and extractivism, being perceived as the ultimate reserves of resources, as possible touristic destinations and potential places of refuge from rising temperatures and sprawling metropolises. In response to conflicts, frictions, and polarizations connected to this, people in mountain regions across the world are increasingly (re)claiming territorial belonging and ownership. While some communities demand a political acknowledgement of the value of their local and\/or indigenous knowledge(s), some claim to autonomously decide who and how is entitled to manage their own environmental resources or infrastructures, and others are attaching emotional, ethical and identitarian meanings to their context-sensitive, \u2018traditional\u2019 practices. Eds. Tobias Boos, Koen de Munter, Daniela Salvucci<\/p>\n\n\n\n With articles in Spanish, English or Italian written by Denise Y. Arnold, Koen de Munter, \u00d3scar Mu\u00f1oz Mor\u00e1n, Federica Moscatelli, Francisco Pazzarelli, Daniel Gonz\u00e1lez Hern\u00e1ndez, Jorge Moreira Pe\u00f1a, Paula Gabriela Nu\u00f1ez, Letizia Bindi, Ana Correa, Federico Lifschitz, Daniel Dar\u00edo Delfino, Alejandro Haber, Tobias Boos, and Salvucci Daniela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Download the open access book following the Link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The project \u201cCuration and digitization of the archives of the Institute of Aymara Language and Culture, ILCA\u201d has digitized more than 1,500 data sources that can be used for new research. Access to the trilingual UCLA-MEAP website is free, with entries in Spanish and English, and an extensive use of Aymara. Entries are replicated on the ILCA website (see below). The ILCA archives trace the work of this institution, under the direction of its founder, Professor Juan de Dios Yapita, since the 1970s. It includes 800 audio recordings, newspaper clippings, and other publications covering initiatives of the Indigenous and Indianist Movements of those decades, and books on teaching Aymara language. There is also a photographic and video collection of the ILCA team and of life in the rural areas of the Altiplano and valleys of Bolivia, videos of Professor Yapita’s work teaching Aymara language, and his field notebooks together with those of the British anthropologist, Professor Denise Y. Arnold (with whom he worked from 1985 to 2013). The digitized archive, one of the largest on the Aymara language and culture on the Continent, contains sections on the life and work of Juan de Dios Yapita, including his musical compositions, on life and language use in the marka and ayllus of Qaqachaka, and on the life and political work of the well-known yatiri<\/em> and midwife Don Domingo Jim\u00e9nez Aruquipa. Many interviews are conducted with the last generation of monolingual Aymara speakers, in communities in Oruro, northern Potos\u00ed, and the lakeside region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Links: MEAP<\/a>\/ILCANET<\/a> Denise Y. Arnold
Daniela Salvucci (Free University of Bolzano-Bozen)
Giovanni Masar\u00e0 (University of St Andrews)
Tobias Boos (Free University Bolzano-Bozen)
Gabriele Orlandi (Universit\u00e9 de la Vall\u00e9e d’Aoste)
<\/a>Discussant<\/strong>:
Roberta Raffaet\u00e0 (Ca’ Foscari Venice University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This panel seeks to move beyond the \u201cWest and the Rest\u201d framework in discussions of autochthony, indigeneity, localisms, and eco-populist discourses. We aim to examine differences, possible similarities, continuities and discontinuities in how territorial claims and narratives of belonging are articulated in mountain regions globally. While similar dynamics may be found elsewhere, mountains warrant special attention: they have long been imagined, also within anthropology, ethnology and folklore studies, as spaces of difference, Otherness, self-sufficiency, and autochthony. We especially welcome proposals that investigate the social, political, and historical conditions shaping mountain territorial claims, focusing on how these claims may assert boundaries and hierarchies of belonging, and\/or cultivate solidaristic and inclusive forms of autonomy and care.
As societies worldwide seem to be increasingly \u201cgoing indigenous\u201d, we believe anthropologists, ethnologists, folklorists, and montologists are tasked not only with understanding these dynamics but also with finding ways to collaborate with people in mountain regions to co-develop tools and practices for building more just and equitable societies. We are also asking: how can researchers engage with communities navigating the manifold polarising forces related to environmental practices in mountain areas while generating more inclusive, participatory, and plural forms of belonging(s)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOpen Access Special Issue – 2025 – Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, 17(2)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Relacionalidad medioambiental ritual y festiva en \u00e1reas de monta\u00f1a iberoamericanas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe archives of the Institute of Aymara Language and Culture, ILCA, in La Paz, are now online, thanks to the sponsorship of the MEAP project (Modern Endangered Archives Program) at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, with funding from Arcadia<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Contacts: infoilcabolivia@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Correo: deniseyarnold@yahoo.com
Cristina Machicado
Correo: machicado.lacris@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n