RT Article
T1 Tracing Mapuche exclusion from post-dictatorial truth commissions in Chile: official and grassroots initiatives
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 12
IS 3
SP 479
OP 498
A1 Jara, Daniela
A2 Badilla, Manuela
A2 Figueiredo, Ana
A2 Cornejo, Marcela
A2 Riveros, Victoria
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1844125130
AB This article critically examines the official misrecognition of Mapuche experiences of violence during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990) in state-sponsored truth commissions in Chile. We examine official post-dictatorial truth commission politics, narratives and procedures, analyzing how they envisioned the Mapuche as a political (absent) subject and how specific and homogenizing notions of victimhood were produced. We draw attention to three forms of cultural response by the Mapuche toward the official practices of the truth commissions from a bottom-up perspective: indifference, ambivalence and cultural resistance. We then draw attention to unofficial initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots groups that have aimed to tackle this gap in the transitional justice mechanisms by creating oppositional knowledge. We see in these counter initiatives a valuable knowledge that could allow the creation of bridges between Mapuche communities, mechanisms of transitional justice, grassroots and NGO activism and the Chilean state.
K1 historical memory
K1 Indigenous Peoples
K1 Nongovernmental organizations
K1 Truth commissions
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijy025