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Desalambrando el aire: Communication and Mapuche Struggles in Postcrisis Patagonia

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Abstract

Mapuche struggles for recomposition in Patagonia take place across various terrains, and assume a great diversity of forms. In this chapter, I look at the dynamics of these struggles, focusing on one of their spheres and strategies of work: communication. For Mapuche territorial movements, communication matters for two primary reasons. Firstly, because it serves as a vehicle for capital and the state in perpetuating Argentina’s negation of its indigenous reality; in discourse as in policy. At the same time, different media are employed as a tool for indigenous struggles to (re)construct political subjects and projects. Through its articulation across fragmented and dispersed urban and rural communities, 1 or connecting indigenous with other sectors, they can help to (re)weave webs of organizing and solidarity. In fact, for well over a decade, Mapuche and Mapuche-Tehuelche movements, and the communication collectives that grew out of them, have been making media. Many of these projects were launched in the decade after 2001, and operated autonomously from the state, in collaboration with other movements, with alternative media or nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

This piece is based on doctoral fieldwork carried out in Argentina between 2011 and 2013 in the provinces of Río Negro and Chubut. In the latter, in addition to the Mapuche, there are Mapuche-Tehuelche communities. I alternate between the terms Mapuche and Mapuche-Tehuelche when referring to both, following common practice within movements. The phrase desalambrando el aire literally means “un-enclosing” the airwaves, and is a station call of Radio Petu Mogeleiñ.

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  1. University College Cork, USA

    Cara Levey (Lecturer in Latin America Studies) (Lecturer in Latin America Studies)

  2. Department of Leadership, Work and Organisations, Middlesex University Business School, USA

    Daniel Ozarow (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  3. Richmond the American International University, London, USA

    Christopher Wylde (Assistant Professor of International Relations) (Assistant Professor of International Relations)

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Fischer, S. (2014). Desalambrando el aire: Communication and Mapuche Struggles in Postcrisis Patagonia. In: Levey, C., Ozarow, D., Wylde, C. (eds) Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137434265_10

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