Maria de las Mercedes Donato Biocca

Title: Assistant Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 91 96

E-mail: Mercedes.Biocca@sos.uib.no

Visiting address: Rosenbergsgt. 39

My research analyses the ways in which the articulation of subaltern politics and state power shape the local process of accumulation by dispossession. Taking a long-term historical perspective, I try to emphasize how such processes shape and are shaped by local histories of displacement, compliances and resistance My ethnography of two indigenous communities in the province of Chaco, Argentina explores the different perceptions and positionings regarding the expansion of soybean production. I am particularly interested in analysing how different subaltern groups, through a local rationality, perceive, experience and act upon the process of accumulation by dispossession.

Publications in Cristin