ABSTRACT

This chapter exemplifies the counter-hegemonic appropriation of concepts developed by European intellectuals. The author shows how she adopted Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of micropolitics to analyze the everyday small-scale struggles, affording greater exposure to resistances and insurgencies subsumed under the conventional analyses of peasant or worker struggles. The work was centered around the Taller de Historia Oral Andina and based on a tactical ethnicity in an effort to establish a collective memory via mobilization through networks of small communities with itinerant and rhizomatic leaders.