Ships Stranded in the Forest: Debris of Progress on a Phantom River

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In this article, I examine the debris that modernist projects leave in spaceand the ways in which these vestiges are interpreted, generations later, bypeople haunted by the long-term reverberations of their ruination. Drawing on theories of negativity, I look at local memories woven around these spa...

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Autor principal: Gordillo, Gastón
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA 2015
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Quizás quisiste decir
ruinas
memoria
espaciRuins
Memory
Space
Negativity
Rio Bermejo
Gran Chaco
Ruinas
Memoria
Espacio
Negatividad
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spelling I28-R145-2229_oai2025-11-17 Gordillo, Gastón 2015-12-11 In this article, I examine the debris that modernist projects leave in spaceand the ways in which these vestiges are interpreted, generations later, bypeople haunted by the long-term reverberations of their ruination. Drawing on theories of negativity, I look at local memories woven around these spatial sedimentations with the aim of examining the interpenetration of space, history, decline, and subjectivity. My narrative focuses on the remains of steamships that the attempts to turn the Bermejo River into a commercial fluvial route left around the town of Rivadavia in the Gran Chaco region of northern Argentina. In the 1860s and 1870s, businessmen and officials hailed the navigation of Bermejo as a project that would bring progress and prosperity to a savage region under the control of indigenous groups. Shortly thereafter, the Bermejo shifted its course, the navigation schemes collapsed, and Rivadavia entered a period of decline from which it never fully recovered. In this article, I examine how local views of the debris of ships and of a monument erected to commemorate them evoke multiple absences, chief among them that of the progress that the ships were expected to bring to the Chaco. En este artículo analizo los restos dejados por proyectos modernistas en elespacio y las formas en que estos vestigios son interpretados, generaciones más tarde, por personas afectadas por las reverberaciones a largo plazo de su ruina. Basándome en teorías de la negatividad, analizo las memorias locales entretejidas alrededor de estos sedimentos materiales con el objeto de examinar la interpenetración entre el espacio, la historia, el deterioro y la subjetividad.Mi narrativa se centra en los restos de barcos a vapor que quedaron en losalrededores del pueblo de Rivadavia en el Chaco salteño como resultado de los intentos de transformar el Río Bermejo en una ruta fluvial comercial. En las décadas de 1860 y 1870, empresarios y funcionarios celebraban la navegación del Bermejo como un proyecto que traería progreso y prosperidad a una región salvaje controlada por grupos indígenas. Poco tiempo después, el Río Bermejo cambió su curso, los planes de navegación colapsaron y Rivadavia entró en un periodo de declinación del cual nunca se recuperó completamente.En este artículo examino cómo las visiones de los pobladores sobre los restos de los barcos, y sobre un monumento erigido en la plaza de Rivadavia para conmemorarlos, evocan múltiples ausencias, la mayor de las cuales es el progreso que aquellos barcos traerían al Chaco. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/2229 10.34096/runa.v36i2.2229 spa Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/2229/1956 RUNA, archivo para las ciencias del hombre; Vol. 36 No. 2 (2015); 25-55 RUNA, archivo para las ciencias del hombre; Vol. 36 Núm. 2 (2015); 25-55 RUNA, archivo para las ciencias del hombre; v. 36 n. 2 (2015); 25-55 1851-9628 0325-1217 Quizás quisiste decir ruinas memoria espaciRuins Memory Space Negativity Rio Bermejo Gran Chaco Ruinas Memoria Espacio Negatividad Rio Bermejo Gran Chaco Ships Stranded in the Forest: Debris of Progress on a Phantom River Barcos varados en el monte. Restos del progreso en un río fantasma info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=runa&d=2229_oai
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topic Quizás quisiste decir
ruinas
memoria
espaciRuins
Memory
Space
Negativity
Rio Bermejo
Gran Chaco
Ruinas
Memoria
Espacio
Negatividad
Rio Bermejo
Gran Chaco
spellingShingle Quizás quisiste decir
ruinas
memoria
espaciRuins
Memory
Space
Negativity
Rio Bermejo
Gran Chaco
Ruinas
Memoria
Espacio
Negatividad
Rio Bermejo
Gran Chaco
Gordillo, Gastón
Ships Stranded in the Forest: Debris of Progress on a Phantom River
topic_facet Quizás quisiste decir
ruinas
memoria
espaciRuins
Memory
Space
Negativity
Rio Bermejo
Gran Chaco
Ruinas
Memoria
Espacio
Negatividad
Rio Bermejo
Gran Chaco
description In this article, I examine the debris that modernist projects leave in spaceand the ways in which these vestiges are interpreted, generations later, bypeople haunted by the long-term reverberations of their ruination. Drawing on theories of negativity, I look at local memories woven around these spatial sedimentations with the aim of examining the interpenetration of space, history, decline, and subjectivity. My narrative focuses on the remains of steamships that the attempts to turn the Bermejo River into a commercial fluvial route left around the town of Rivadavia in the Gran Chaco region of northern Argentina. In the 1860s and 1870s, businessmen and officials hailed the navigation of Bermejo as a project that would bring progress and prosperity to a savage region under the control of indigenous groups. Shortly thereafter, the Bermejo shifted its course, the navigation schemes collapsed, and Rivadavia entered a period of decline from which it never fully recovered. In this article, I examine how local views of the debris of ships and of a monument erected to commemorate them evoke multiple absences, chief among them that of the progress that the ships were expected to bring to the Chaco.
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