Debates, balances y desafíos de la historiografía mapuche en el Chile reciente

Abstract

The article analyzes the emergence and evolution of a Mapuche historiography in Chile as part of this people’s broad repertoire of resistance practices. Through the examination of both individual and collective texts, it shows how historical writing has become a personal and political tool to challenge the hegemonic narratives of the nation-state, to give temporal depth to identities in continuous transformation, to interrogate spaces of exclusion and domination, and to recover silenced agencies. The study traces generational shifts in themes and approaches: from the Indianist and anticolonial repertoires of the second half of the twentieth century, which exceeded the frameworks of the Cold War, to the irruption of autonomist demands into the public sphere of the continent during the so-called “Indigenous emergence,” and finally to the subsequent spread, and crisis, of neoliberal multiculturalism as a policy for managing difference.