Trayectorias, academia y activismo mapuche

Abstract

Responding to the challenge of the coordinators of the present dossier regarding the relationship between “indigenous intellectuals and the social sciences”, implies blazing a trail constituted by the diverse transcendental moments that links trajectories of activism, such as expressions of collective organization strategies, with the political life of the Mapuche movement in Argentina. Moreover, the way in which ethnography and activism have converged in investigations and the production of “native” explanatory frames is addressed here as a way of interpellating models of political action and the construction of belonging. By looking at the significant moments mentioned above, we extract reflections from those intersections during a historical period that takes in an increase in the harshness of state violence in Mapuche lands