Le pays mapuche, un territoire « à géographie variable »

Abstract

This article pays attention to the Indigenous territorial question through the analysis of the Mapuche case in Chile. Three types of territorialities are confronted: a) the ones created by the State’s Indigenous policies, b) the ones claimed by Indigenous leaders, and c) the experienced territorialities of the Mapuche civil society. The usefulness of this confrontation does not only consist in understanding the complexity of a geographical object constructed by a great variety of actors. It also helps to reveal the variable geography of contemporary Indigenous territories.

Keywords

• indigeneity
• territorial claim
• territoriality
• Mapuche
• Chile