De la subalternidad a la autorepresentación: Las voces indígenas latinoamericanas y el caso de la radiodifusión mapuche

Abstract

Since the appearance of the designation as ‘indians’, the latin american indigenous people has been represented and named by hegemonies dominants with purpose to justify, build and reproduce their condition of subalternity imposed. However, in the last two decades (1990-2010) there has been an explosion of mass media self management by indigenous people, showing the maturity of the reemergency of continental indigenous people movement. In this article we review this phenomenon, through the analysis of contents of mapuche radio broadcasting in Gulumapu (Chile), realizing how these social subjects name, explain and legitimize from theirs own identity, culture and collective memory, disputing the dominant narratives prevailing about them in the Chilean public sphere.