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Racialization in Wallmapu: contemporary perceptions of the ‘Mapuche threat’

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Throughout this article, we make three arguments. First, the post-dictatorship construction of the nation-state in Chile and Argentina has socially legitimized various ways of framing and invoking the ‘threats’ to which the ‘development’ model is exposed. Second, both countries recognize a common threat in resistance movements against the extractivist model, which explains their joint efforts of repression against Mapuche community activists. The latter was organized in partnership between the two governments to combat generic crimes, such as weapons and drug trafficking or ‘terrorist’ activities, providing the context within which the ‘Mapuche problem’ stands. Third, structural racism is continuously renewed through state policies of recognition that acknowledge the right of indigenous people to self-identify as a means of recovering possessions, while also engaging in practices of racialization that give new meaning to the so-called ‘internal enemy’

Source: Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies

DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2023.2224700

Authors: Claudia Briones, Patricio Lepe-Carrión

Institutions: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, National University of Río Negro, Instituto de Investigaciones en Diversidad Cultural y Procesos de Cambio, Universidad de La Frontera

Language: English

Topic: Indigenous Cultures and History

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Research and Development