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

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; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canadá
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Lenguaje:Español
Español
Publicado: Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas 2016
Materias:
Quizás quisiste decir: ruinas, memoria, espaciRuins
Memory
Space
Negativity
Rio Bermejo
Gran Chaco
Ruinas
Memoria
Espacio
Negatividad
Acceso en línea:http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/2229
http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/2154
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Español
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; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canadá
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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title Ships Stranded in the Forest: Debris of Progress on a Phantom River
title_short Ships Stranded in the Forest: Debris of Progress on a Phantom River
title_full Ships Stranded in the Forest: Debris of Progress on a Phantom River
title_fullStr Ships Stranded in the Forest: Debris of Progress on a Phantom River
title_full_unstemmed Ships Stranded in the Forest: Debris of Progress on a Phantom River
title_sort ships stranded in the forest: debris of progress on a phantom river
publisher Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas
publishDate 2016
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