La frontera y su espacio temporalidad. Aproximaciones a las movilidades y a las relaciones culturales en los Andes

Abstract

Throughout their own history, the states of Argentina and Chile have carried out diff erent kind of actions in order to control borders and practices of their inhabitants. However, transhumant social groups through adaptation and resistance strategies succeeded on maintaining their ancestral mobilities. The aim of this texts it o make a balance of the trajectory of the research about this issue that has been carried out in the central west area of the Chilean Argentine border since 2000. The following questions guide this revision: what have been the epistemological turns that guided our studies about this borderland?; What kind of textual and visual representations had been involved in this research? And, lastly, which perspectives did the case study off er to challenge the border paradigm in which we had formed?. Which new lines of research stem from this perspective?