Persiguiendo la utopía. Medios de comunicación Mapuche y la construcción de la utopía del Wallmapu

  • Elisa García Mingo Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/aahdh-12-2014pp161-184
Keywords: Mapuche Indigenous People, utopia, indigenous rights, indigenous media, media activism, politics of representation

Abstract

In recent years, the demand for collective rights of the Mapuche people has increased. This has taken place in a global context in which alternative media have become effective tools for empowering vulnerable communities. Mapuche peoploe have fractured the «media landscape» in order to make their voices hearable, making their claims included in the (inter)national political agendas (inter) and transforming the conventional representation that mainstream media offer of the Mapuche subjetcs. This article offers a reflection emanating from an ethnographic work conducted in southern Chile in 2012 and pays attention to the place of indigenous media in the pro-indigenous rights struggle of the Mapuche mouvement and the importance of media in the constructiones and enhancement of the utopia of returning to the Mapuche Country as a political project.

Published online: 11 December 2017

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Author Biography

Elisa García Mingo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Centro Universitario Villanueva (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
Published
2017-12-11
How to Cite
García Mingo, Elisa. 2017. “Persiguiendo La utopía. Medios De comunicación Mapuche Y La construcción De La utopía Del Wallmapu”. Deusto Journal of Human Rights, no. 12 (December), 161-84. https://doi.org/10.18543/aahdh-12-2014pp161-184.
Issue
No. 12 (2014)
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Articles

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