Mapuche female authors and constituent moment in Chile

Abstract

This article analyses the contribution made by Mapuche female authors to the construction of a plurinational society and state, a challenge made visible by the Chilean social outburst of October 2019. It argues that there is a trajectory of Mapuche political thought that has been reflecting on the issue of plurinationality for the last three decades and that it also contains a specific aspect lead by female authors-activists whose proposals enable a more complex reflection on a social pact able to redefine the relationships between social classes and native people, which should also consider the interaction between race, class and gender that impacts on their lives. To that end the article analyses a corpus of texts by Mapuche female authors published in the last fifteen years which offer relevant reflections for the development of the current constituent moment.