Entre comunitarismo y nacionalismo: El caso mapuche, 1990-2010

Abstract

The author presents an analysis to explain the changes occured in the Mapuche movement. In order to do this, he analizes the main political proposals by the Mapuche organizations from 1990 to 2010. He sustains that the most important for the Mapuche organizations, in the past two decades, has not been the power of a rhetoric, with political terminology associated to national movements, in the interpretative framework, but rather the kind of solution that the political players see for the Mapuche question. That is to say, a communitarian or a nationalistic solution. Territory is a key factor for all national projects, and the Mapuche nationalism is more linked to the dilemmas of the political strategies, than to the supposed processes of ethnic revitalization, reethnification or politicization of the etnicity