voices of the Earth: Right to Information in the Mapuche Rights Movement in Chile

Abstract

In recent years, the demand for the collective rights of the Mapuche people, the third largest indigenous people in Latin America and the most populous indigenous people in Chile and Argentina, has intensified. This article, a reflection paper that emanates from an empirical work conducted in Chile in 2012, pays attention to the place of the Right to Information in the pro-rights movement led by the People of the Earth (Mapu-che) in recent decades.  To this end, a succinct review of the most salient features of this claim of collective rights is made, in order to continue with the attempt to elaborate a multicultural approach to the Right to Information from the cultural specificity of the Mapuche worldview, whose consideration of the individual and the word is radically different from the Western vision of them. In order to understand the localization of this right in the political movement of "return to the Wallmapu", we will focus on reviewing the recent emergence of Mapuche media and, more specifically, on their poetics and politics. The course of the above reflection will allow us to specify the place of the Right to Information in the Mapuche Movement