Emotions and body-territories in extractivist contexts: aesthetic/sensitive resistance practices of indigenous/ farming women from the Santa María department

Abstract

This work aims to develop a critical perspective on the sociology of bodies and emotions in relation to
environmental issues, particularly focusing on the structural conflicts arising from large-scale transnational
mining in the Province of Catamarca. It examines the effects, transformations, and impacts of contemporary
transnational mining regimes on the subjectivities of farming and indigenous women.
By understanding the extractivist processes in the province as traumatic social events at the local level, and as
emblematic at the national and regional levels, this study seeks to highlight the consequences these events

have on the political subjectivities and sensitivities of the women involved. The analysis relies on a critical-
hermeneutic reconstruction of the impacts generated by mining exploitation, including the recovery of artistic

practices undertaken by these women, such as (coplas). Ultimately, the work focuses on understanding
modern mining as a key factor in shaping the emotional and motivational foundations of the subjectivities of
farming and indigenous women.