Un análisis sobre la pluriculturalidad en la costa y valle de Chubut

Abstract

In recent years, the province of Chubut has included the “indigenous question” as a political context for recognition, framed in the logic of “pluriculturalism”. As it relates specifically to the area of the coast and valley, this pluriculturalism played a key role in what characterizes and shapes that regional social map. This regional configuration of otherness not only is related to hegemonic state cartographies, but also, an even more interestingly, to the particular processes of struggle, relationships and senses of belonging that the indigenous groups themselves have been able to develop. This work analyzes how these policies became fundamental not only to understand the hegemonic circuits which the Mapuche and Tehuelche peoples have had to cope with, but also the reasons why many of them have become places of attachment and struggle that allowed reversing situations of inequality. Therefore, one of the objectives of this paper will be to reflect on how indigenous communities in the area have created their particular forms of political subjectivity from this particular regional scenario characterized by the logic of “pluriculturalism”.