The Division of Mapuche Communal Lands during the dictatorship civilian-military in Chile and their inmediate consequences, 1979-1990

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2024.1.46078

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mapuche communities, editors, private property, conflicts

Abstract

This paper studies the expeditious division of Mapuche communal lands, initiated by Chilean dictatorship civilian-military in 1979, and the problems that Mapuche private individual property produced, increasing the difficulties in the living conditions of the community members (poverty and migration). Likewise, this motivated the Mapuche political reorganization, and a new movement to recover usurped lands. It is proposed that the policy to ending the communities and to create a private property has been a crucial moment in the history of the Mapuche people, a community break from which their recent history begins. The article considers the previous situation in the communities, the politics and the process of division of communal lands, and its immediate consequences. Along with bibliography and regional press, it is used documentation from the communities, regional government of Araucanía and Ministry of Agriculture.

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Author Biography

Fabián Almonacid , Austral University of Chile, Valdivia, Chile.

PhD in History. Academic at the Institute of History and Social Sciences, Austral University of Chile. Currently, director of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, and of the Research Center on Inequality and Human Rights (DesDeh), of the UACh. Specialist in economic history. Currently, he is directing a Fondecyt Regular project on capital in rural areas of southern Chile, in the global era (1980-2020). In addition, he is part of the Working Group "Agrarian work, inequalities and ruralities", of CLACSO (2023-2025). On the other hand, he is a member of the board of directors of the Latin American Association of Rural Sociology (ALASRU), 2022-2026. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, Friedrich Schiller, Jena, Germany and the State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. He also held the Pablo Neruda Chair at the Institute of Advanced Studies for Latin America, University Paris III, France. Among his most recent publications, apart from numerous articles and book chapters in Spanish, Colombian, Argentine, German and Chilean publications, he has published six books as author and one as editor. Among them, Neoliberalism and Globalization in Agriculture in Southern Chile, 1973-2019. Valparaíso: Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso, 2020; co-authored with Daniel Stahl, Memories of Violence and Justice. Conversations with Human Rights Leaders in Southern Chile. Postdam, Germany: INOLAS, 2021. As co-editor, together with Hernán Cuevas and Yanira Zuñiga, The Rebellion Against Order. October 2019-present. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Lom, 2022.

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Cajas 1, 6, 9, 11, 20, 37, 38, 112, 145, 149, 184, 209 y 250, Fondo Intendencia IX Región, Archivo Histórico Regional de La Araucanía. v. 2025, 2313, 2316, 2319, 2371, 2416, 2417, 2431, 2465, 2493, 2494, 2499, 2510, 2513-2517, 2544, 2563-2566, 2571, 2575, 2581, 2585, 2616, 2637, 2638, 2641, 2643, 2670, 2677, 2681-2684, 2717, 2731, 2740, 2744, 2777, 2784, 2791, 2800-2803, 2891, 2892, 2896-2898, 2956, 2974, 2991, 2996, 3021, 3059-3064, 3068, 3072, 3132, 3133, 3138, 3146, 3233, 3239 y 3279, Fondo Ministerio de Agricultura, Archivo Nacional de la Administración.

Carpetas Administrativas comunidades mapuche, comunas Padre Las Casas, Vilcún y Lautaro, Archivo Conadi. v. 563 y 589, Intendencia de Cautín, Archivo Histórico Regional de La Araucanía.

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Published

2024-11-27

How to Cite

Almonacid , F. (2024). The Division of Mapuche Communal Lands during the dictatorship civilian-military in Chile and their inmediate consequences, 1979-1990. Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 50(1), e46078. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2024.1.46078

Issue

Vol. 50 No. 1 (2024): Single Volume

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DOSSIER - Indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant communities on the move: forms of government and extractive contexts in the Americas, from national developmentalism to neoliberal models of governance

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