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Movimiento y creación de lugares en un terreno monzónico

No. 26 (2020-01-01)
  • Deepta Sateesh
    Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Manipal, Karnataka, India deeptasateesh@gmail.com
https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq26.2020.02

Resumen

La territorialización de los Ghats occidentales, en India, es un acto de poder colonial bien sea por asentamiento o por marginación de pueblos, prácticas y ecologías particulares, privilegiando una bipartición de lo húmedo y lo seco y espacializando un paisaje monzónico. El entorno de los Ghats occidentales, particularmente, ha sido politizado y polarizado. Actualmente, los pueblos indígenas y otros “habitantes del bosque” se han visto comprometidos por el marco colonial heredado; son excluidos, por acciones de conservación, al igual que su conocimiento el cual está basado en relaciones dinámicas y cotidianas con el lugar. Los esfuerzos por ser inclusivos están cargados con deficiencias del imaginario colonial, que usan el lenguaje para continuar la cosificación y espacialización de la naturaleza y la cultura, lo que a su vez, disemina la división entre lo húmedo y lo seco. La disciplina de los Ghats occidentales se perpetúa a través de leyes ambientales: desde la Ley de Bosques Indios de 1865, que protege la tierra para la producción, hasta la Ley de Derechos Forestales de 2006, que otorga derechos a los habitantes de los bosques para protegerla. A pesar de estas leyes, los conflictos por el acceso a la tierra y a los recursos continúan, ya que la vida de estos habitantes y su relación con la tierra, o el mundo, nunca fueron considerados en sus propios términos. ¿Cómo puede el diseño descifrar la forma en la que vivían estos habitantes antes del colonialismo? Existe la posibilidad de que comprendan el lugar moviéndose, ocupando y apropiándose temporalmente de las condiciones dinámicas de “humedad” en su vida cotidiana ordinaria. ¿Qué se puede ensamblar a partir de pistas existentes, y de una nueva imaginación, para diseñar futuros que correspondan a un entorno cambiante (Ingold, 2011)? Este trabajo revelará la posibilidad de una “ontología húmeda” local/indígena (Steinberg y Peters, 2015) que privilegia las prácticas cotidianas a lo largo del tiempo y que continuamente “encuentran su hogar” en este terreno monzónico.

Palabras clave: Colonialismo, Ghats occidentales, ambientalismo, investigación en diseño, imaginación

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