Construcción de la interculturalidad y la territorialidad en San Martin de los Andes

Abstract

This article main objective is to take into consideration the different views on the hegemonic and opposites discourses that are being said in the city of San Martin de los Andes, about the ongoing conflicts of territory and the re-inscription of interculturality. Mapuche communities from the zone were given a space at the city council to discuss with local state authorities and it was from there where they requested to lift the mapuche flag (wenufoye) at the central plaza. The demand was based on the argument that San Martin de los Andes was an intercultural town as recognized by the city council. The lift of the flag was intended to occur on October 12th 2014, but it never happened because the demand was represented in the hegemonic discourses as it the mapuche people were advancing into non-mapuche territory in a community that recognize themselves as non-mapuche. Yet, this situation illuminated the force that this discourses carriage and how they represent the different social actors that belong to the city‟s social and political framework. The purpose of the article not only consists on debating about the interculutrality, but it also recovers the discursive practices about the defense and territorial legitimacy from the different social groups that shape the city