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Guillaume Boccara, « The Mapuche People in Post-Dictatorship Chile », Études rurales, ID : 10.4000/etudesrurales.7984
This paper deals with the Mapuche ethnic resurgence in post-dictatorship Chile. Drawing on several concrete examples, I show that the Mapuche social movement that has developed since the 1990s both challenges the very basis of the dominant political and ideological order and contributes to the process of rethinking the way of doing politics and building democracy, territory, and citizenship. By revalidating former political institutions and reasserting the value of “traditional” devices of communication, socialization and memorializing, indigenous leaders and organizations are contesting the territoriality imposed by the Chilean state in the wake of their military defeat at the end of the 19th century. Whereas in the 1960s and 1970s peasants used to claim for more lands, the ethnogenetic processes in which present indigenous peoples are involved lead to the building of new territories, social groupings and identities.