De discursos y prácticas estatales. Un análisis sobre la (in)materialización de políticas públicas interculturales en el Municipio de San Carlos de Bariloche

Abstract

In 2015 San Carlos de Bariloche township declares itself as “Intercultural” through the 2641-CM-15 ordinance, orientated to attend indigenous demands that were initiating a process of interculturalism in the township structures and its doings. This article approaches the process initiated after the intercultural declaration to analyse the elaboration of the intercultural public policy that is being held since 2015. Likewise, it analyses the effects that this declaration has over the senses surrounding the indigenous that operates in the local and public sphere in this public policy. This article is divided in three sections: first, it deepens in the interculturalism concept and different meanings that can be given to it, pointing out particularities that are associated to the interculturalism, proposed by the ordinance. Secondly, analyses the intercultural declaration from its practices, sustaining the review of three experiences that we understand as being driven “from the bottom to the top”. These experiences have had place at the local township. By last, it analyses discrepancies between discourses and practices promoted by the state with the particularities of the local context as the cause of its state inaction. A context that keeps updating hegemonic discourses from available narratives from which Bariloche constructed its official history.