Oral traditions, radial communication and the archive as a technology: reflections about the archieve of indigenous women organization Aredete and La Voz Indígena radio

Abstract

From an interdisciplinary perspective, this article addresses the case of the archive repository of the indigenous women's collective ARETEDE and the community radio station La Voz Indígena (northern Argentina). Specifically, we carry out an analysis that accounts for the ethnographic process we implemented, detailing the dimensions of inquiry, the operations that allowed us to study the different sides of the archive and the thematic shifts we found. To this end, the text is organized as follows: first, it shows the tensions between the marks of statehood and the practices of resistance that unfold within the framework of a process of subjectivation; second, it analyzes how oral memories and communication converge in the production of a form of indigenous history that seeks to evidence the processes of territorial dispossession; and finally, it shows how the archive ends up constituting a technology of struggle that seeks to challenge and twist the dominant regimes of historicity and coloniality.