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Creator: Stipić, Igor

Title: People from the Land:

Subtitle: A High school story of the Mapuche Indigenous people in Chile

DOI: 10.15457/frictions/0024

Description:

This piece traces the identity transformation of two high school students in Chile who were involved in protest movements and eventually came to identify as indigenous Mapuche. In his approach, Igor Stipić’s combines a longue-durée historical perspective with an ethnographic approach to biography that entangles individual identity formation with relations to national discourses, colonial legacies, the environment and neoliberal economic extractivism.
The text is based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Chile as part of Igor Stipić’s doctoral research at the Leibniz ScienceCampus.
This post concludes with ‘A poem about my country’ by Puetasubterraneo (Spanish: Poet from underground). The poem is featured by kind permission of its author, a student at the high school researched by Igor Stipić.

Date of publication: 2022-12-16

URL: https://frictions.europeamerica.de/research-notes-stipic-high-school-story-mapuche-indigenous-chile/

Subjects: Chile, Latin America, South America, colonialism, extractivism, identity, indigenous communities, indigenous rights, resistance, school protests

Section: Research Notes

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