MAPUCHE PROTESTS ON THE RETURN OF PIÑERA: MILESTONES AND DYNAMICS IN A TERRITORY IN CONFLICT

Authors

  • Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte Universidad Alberto Hurtado
  • Diego Gálvez Universidad Alberto Hurtado

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/ACS2019.9.3

Keywords:

protest, political violence, repression, social movement, indigenous movement, Chile, Mapuche, Araucania

Abstract

This article analyses the course of the Mapuche protests during year 2018. Based on a comprehensive revision of press news, both from corporative and independent media (including Mapuche ones), the authors describe the magnitude and the types of repertoires of protest deployed by the Mapuche movement in their historical territories. Together with a statistical descriptive analysis of the frequency and types of repertoires, a geostatitical analysis is carried out in order to identify the territorial distribution of protest and its concentration in the provinces of Arauco, Malleco and Cautín. The authors choose to place Mapuche protests in the context of the Chilean political stage by identifying the specific causes of the collective action that has taken place and the main milestones of the conflict surrounding them. Finally, our analysis focuses on those cycles displaying greater conflict and highlights the interactions between the specific government’s measures of protest suppression, on one hand, and Mapuche mobilization, on the other. In those conjunctures of greatest conflict, our study identifies a close relationship between police violence and Mapuche political violence, as a phenomenon of (counter)violence

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Published

2020-01-02

How to Cite

Rojas Pedemonte, N., & Gálvez, D. (2020). MAPUCHE PROTESTS ON THE RETURN OF PIÑERA: MILESTONES AND DYNAMICS IN A TERRITORY IN CONFLICT. Social Conflict Yearbook, (9). https://doi.org/10.1344/ACS2019.9.3

Issue

No. 9: SOCIAL CONFLICT YEARBOOK IN MAPUCHE TERRITORY, 2018

Section

Conflict Analysis

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