Abstract

NACACH, Gabriela. Tierra del Fuego: the scientific-political construction of exclusion and counter-image of the ideal city dweller. Dynamis [online]. 2012, vol.32, n.1, pp.69-92. ISSN 2340-7948.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0211-95362012000100004.

Due to its late incorporation into the national State, the social, economic and political setting of the Argentine province Tierra del Fuego differed from that of the rest of the national territory. In the construction of dependent otherness, objectifications and representations were imposed by state-related and non-state-related institutions, among other agencies. In this context, the Salesian mission of La Candelaria and Ushuaia's Jail for recidivists stand out as spaces in which biopolitics was concretised. The native population and criminals in Tierra del Fuego were those to be subjugated. The thesis of the extinction of the Indian and the simultaneous exaltation of the criminal as the subject of progress identified the scientific and political mechanisms by which the exclusion of certain social groups (Tierra del Fuego's indigenous population) and the inclusion of others (criminals) were regulated.

Keywords : Tierra del Fuego; 19th and 20th centuries; biopolitics; paradigms; colonization.

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