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Mapuche Protest, Environmental Conflict and Social Movement Linkage in Chile

Third World Quarterly, 2009
Abstract This article chronicles the promise and limitations of social movement networks as mechanisms of political voice in Mapuche Chile. Although protest has largely fallen from favour in post-authoritarian Chile, environmental conflicts have shaken the southern territories of the Mapuche Indians since redemocratisation. State promises of indigenous
David Carruthers, Patricia Rodriguez
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The Demands of the “True” Mapuche: Ethnic Political Mobilization in the Mapuche Movement

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 2009
To understand the role of ethnicity in ethnic political mobilization when there are no clear-cut ethnic groups, it is valuable to analyze the construction and interaction of different modalities of ethnicity. In the process of ethnic political mobilization in the Mapuche conflict, one can observe the importance of ethnic images as activists reject the ...
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Shamans’ Pragmatic Gendered Negotiations with Mapuche Resistance Movements and Chilean Political Authorities

Identities, 2004
In this article, I look at the ways in which gendered national discourses and the discourses of Mapuche resistance movements coerce and construct shamans (machi) and the ways in which machi appropriate, transform, and contest these images. I explore the contradictions between machi’s hybrid practices and their traditional representations of self and ...
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The Mapuche Movement, the Popular Unity, and the Contemporary Left

NACLA Report on the Americas, 2013
(2013). The Mapuche Movement, the Popular Unity, and the Contemporary Left. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 34-38.
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Articulating An Activist Imaginary: Internet as Counter Public Sphere in the Mapuche Movement, 1997/2002

Media International Australia, 2003
The article analyses the role of the internet in informing and shaping indigenous knowledge and offers a critical examination of the uses of internet by Mapuche indigenous activists in Chile. It describes the ways in which the internet has been appropriated as an efficient political tool to rearticulate a renewed Mapuche cultural imaginary ...
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Natural Resources Claims, Land Conflicts and Self-Empowerment of Indigenous Movements in the Cono Sur – The Case of the Mapuche People in Chile

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 2012
Environmental protection and the struggle over natural resources have long been of major concern for indigenous peoples all over Latin America. Notwithstanding the increasing incisiveness of international indigenous rights standards, indigenous peoples have still very limited access to natural resources, or to benefits deriving from them.
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Gradualism and Rupturism in the Contemporary Mapuche Movement in Chile

Since the colonial period, Mapuche resistance in Chile has taken on different shades, oscillating between periods of warlike conflict and little dialogue with the winka (non-Indigenous) authorities and periods of intense political negotiations. Although the Mapuche political world is shaped by individual, collective, and circumstantial interests, it is
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From Cooperation to Confrontation: The Mapuche Movement and Its Political Impact, 1990–2014

2017
This chapter traces the path from cooperation to conflict followed by the Mapuche movement since the democratic transition. It shows that during the first years of democracy, cooperation with the center-left political parties and the governmental authorities was the predominant strategy, leading to some important institutional results.
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The Mapuche political movement: dependence and autonomization in the 1968 period

2021
The 1968 period was a time of global transformation. From Paris to Santiago, the guardianship authority was called into question. The election of the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei in Chile in 1964 with the slogan “patria joven”, is characteristic of this context, which was hoped to be the starting-point for far-reaching social reforms.
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Mapuche Writings on Self-Determination and Nation: Looking for the Antecedents of a Debate in the Writings of the Movement (1990-2010)

2022
This paper investigates the individual and collective Mapuche writings between 1990 and 2010 from two concepts –self-determination and nation– while emphasizing the main authors that participated in this debate. The analysis aims to understand the tenets and relevance of the concept of self-determination in contemporary Mapuche political thought, as ...
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