Multiculturalisme et construction identitaire au Chili (1990-2011)

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Multiculturalism and Identity Construction in Chili (1990-2011) This article examines three emergent ethnic subjects in Chili – Afro-descendants, the Diaguita and the Palestinians – from the perspective of their respective organizations. A particularity of these organizations is that they appeared in the public space in the immediate wake of the multicultural policies that were implemented throughout Latin America over course of the 1990s in response to large Indian mobilizations. While these emergent subjects did not displace the Mapuche question – the first and largest Indian mobilization in Chili – their unprecedented place in public space was more than epiphenomenal. What was at stake was the way in which the new political economy of identities in Chili was organized. Indeed, their prominence must not be read as the simple unveiling of historically but hitherto invisible ethnic groups ; it also to a large degree corresponded to the production of difference in the present. This sequence invites us to reflect on both the role of the state in the production of ethnic demands and the manner in which the demands of some play upon the demands of others.