APROXIMACIÓN METODOLÓGICA AL CONCEPTO DE TERRITORIOS DISCURSIVOS

Abstract

The following study proposes a methodological approach to the concept of discursive territories (TDs) through the recursive understanding of the relations between territory and discourse, positioning itself from a different nature to that developed by modern western thought. The research techniques employed are placed in the field of hermeneutic discourse analysis, where the textual corpus analyzed corresponds to the territorial discourses coming from the mapuche people. This last, because we consider that the groups in territorial resistance are an effective space of representation of TDs by the constant epistemological clash confronted with eurocentric conceptions. From that, we realize the presence of a different type of territory operating in the discourses of identity communities that experience the territoriality from the collective memory, the affective senses and the mental images that configure them.