Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

LEY DEL BORDE COSTERO Y CUESTIÓN ÉTNICA EN CHILE: DEL DISCURSO A LA PRÁCTICA POLÍTICA

2016; University of Talca; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4067/s0718-23762016000100008

0718-2376

Claudio Espinoza Araya,

Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

This article seeks to show how the leading process to the enactment of Law No. 20.249 Act, also known as Act Seaboard or Lafkenche Act, reflects an interesting case in which through the local space was possible to translate into an ethnic code the logics of a particular political space, the maritime legislation.This case confirms that the indigenous actors contests institutional spaces, in symbolic or objective terms, spaces that are increasingly ethnic meanings for this communities.This paper describes the political process happened from 1992 to 2008 in Tirúa, a small town in south central Chile where Mapuche mayor Adolfo Millabur, with his fellow leaders, was success to put his political thinking in movement in a particular way of local political practice.