Identidad Marron and the myth of the labyrinth.

Struggle and resistance of the collective of peoples from Buenos Aires

Abstract

At a time when both the identity agenda and intersectionality are debated by various sciences and in different academic spaces, we seek in this article to present a case study on the performance of the Colectivo Identidad Marron, which dialogues not only with precariousness (constant in our continent), but with possible culturally inventive and powerful solutions. Formed in 2018 in the city of Buenos Aires, Identidad Marron is composed mainly of women struggling for an insertion of native peoples in better jobs and for prominent spaces in their artistic activities. We intend to reflect on whether their co-option and performance in the precarious system does not re-signify their insertion, managing to give greater visibility to the issues of identity movements in Argentina. As part of a broader context of identity movements, which guide Latin American and world thinking, Identidad Marron can be understood as an example of struggle and resistance when using the facilities of globalization to its benefit, even though they are aware of the overwhelming limitations imposed by the neoliberal economic agendas of large Western cities. Thus, we understand that their clashes are like an update of the myth of the Minotaur's labyrinth. Although they remain inside the labyrinth, they do it together and without fighting for fairer and more equal spaces. Thus, in addition to presenting its performance, we will work and reflect with data that denounce the increase in social inequalities in these territories at the same time that we suggest that these new identity movements have a strong trace of reactivation of local political and social movements that emerged in the decades and affection from the remembrance of their ancestry. Far from looking at the past as a place of arrival, it is the updates of these processes that make these movements more significant, led, in general, by women who are crossed by intersectional issues.

Key-Words: precarious work, globalization, political and cultural collectives, indigenous peoples, Latin America