A place called Sur“When the people lose control, use and management of their ancestral lands, those who lose the most are the new generations because they will no longer have "space to learn about themselves and about the practice of their cultural difference" ZenonFor the theorist of French origin based in Chile, Nelly Richard, thinking on the spot could be expressed as a reactive fear against metanarratives, against the stability of a coherence that protected homogenous identities and traditions. demarcated under the national banner. The place – as a defensive response against the global erasure of borders – becomes a nostalgic haven for the purity of original cultures, endangered by the polluting forces of global capitalism. (Richard: 2009) Likewise, place could be understood, not as the natural evolution of an original territoriality but rather as a situated difference, a difference with a tactical location which intervenes in the geographies of power, it is i.e. institutional maps. and metropolitan circuits that administer the value of “cultural diversity”. The place then becomes a tactical positioning, in tension between globalizing forces and micro-differentiated folds, stratifications or irregular zones. According to Richard, practices of artistic and cultural intervention become local on the global map, rescuing the textures of historical and social experience in its specific context. Richard proposes the concept-metaphor of Sur (or South) as a tactical maneuver for the powerful enunciative and performative category of “difference” that challenges the system. “On” is a line of ambiguity that urges Latin Americans not to abandon the contrast between sublocal differences and metropolitan-multicultural equivalences, while... .. middle of paper...... o-Andean thought and diasporic ancestrality. M, P, Banchetti-Robino and C, R, Headley (editors), Changing the geography of reason: gender, science and religion. Cambridge Scholars Press, United Kingdom, 2006.-------------------------------------- --------------- --[ 1 ]. The construction of whiteness involves different stages that will ultimately determine that Spaniards, although European, will always be considered subaltern despite what Mignolo called imperial colonial difference.[ 2 ]. From Canada to Patagonia, indigenous peoples have proposed reappropriating the word Kuna Abya-Yala to name the continent(s) now called the Americas. It should be mentioned that the Abya-Yala name excludes Afro-descendant populations[ 3 ]. Proceso de Comunidades Negras del Ecuador, Propuesta para la creacion de una Comarca Territorial de Negros en la province de Esmeraldas (Quito: RisperGRAF, 1999), 5.