Architect, Master in Cultural Studies, PhD Candidate in Territorial Studies of the Global South at the University of Concepción. His research focuses on the problems of memory in postindustrial and peripheral territories in the extreme south of Chile. In the region of Aysén he addresses the inscription of these processes of memorialization, from the study of materialities, archive and landscape, arising from political violence, the distribution of territory, deindustrialization and installation of public works as devices, institutional and material, where the political production of space for the new extractive industries is disputed.
Project Statement:
The post-industrial landscapes of the Aysén River: historical memory and new colonialities in the southern border of Chile.
The research aims to understand in depth the processes of deindustrialization and industrial transformation in the Global South, applying an epistemological turn from the application of decolonial critical theory, which allows recognizing current colonialities in the peripheral regions of the southern tip of Chile and the continent. The project, which is in the development phase and is part of a comparative study of cases of deindustrialization in regions of the global south and north, in Chile and Germany, seeks to recognize the traces and material expressions in the territory and landscape where the historical memories of the workers’ communities in Aysén are inscribed. The research approaches one of the most recently populated territories in the American continent, which corresponds to similar colonialization processes that occurred in peripheral regions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, bringing together the action of the State and exploitative societies. The objective of the research is to recognize the transformations of the material landscape linked to the historical memories of the social subjects associated with the phases of industrialization and deindustrialization in Aysén, and their impact on the current spatial configurations of the cities and the territory from a critical discussion of the politics of memorialization and the new colonialities. The project considers the elaboration of a multilocal archive of the memories of the communities and social groups in the Aysén river, as an axis of industrial production of the territory of this Patagonian region, from the registration and survey of places where processes of ruinification, dispute and memorialization are recognized, resulting from the industrial transformation, as well as from the violence and production of oblivion operated for the peripheries and new colonialities.
