Resistência à acumulação por despossessão: a estratégia autonomista após o estallido social

Abstract

In the estallido social of 2019, the Chilean population expressed its dissatisfaction with thedisconnect between institutional policy and the needs of civil society. However, the profoundtransformations Chilean society expected for its future failed to materialize after the election of Gabriel Boric, in 2021 — the youngest in the country's history, former student leader, and elected by the left-wing Apruebo Dignidad coalition —, followed by the overwhelming Rechazo, in 2022. After most of his term, the new president continues with the colonial and racist practices in the Mapuche conflict, an indigenous community in historical confrontation with the Chilean state and comprising approximately 9% of the country’s population. According to Coordinadora de Comunidades en Conflicto Arauco Malleco (CAM), the main resistance organization of the Mapuche people, “now colonialism and capitalism presented themselves with progressive guises”. Considering this, the study aims to investigate the resistance of autonomous Mapuche organizations to the Chilean state since the estallido social. To this end, specialized literature on “coloniality of power”, “settler colonialism” and “developmentalism” will be mobilized to interpret this new stage of the Mapuche-State-capital conflict in Chile. The conclusion is that, following the estallido, a “realignment” of the capital accumulation regime in Wallmapu was consolidated, characterized by strategies of integration and coercion of the Mapuche, subtle and harsh forms of economical exploitation and political expropriation. The intensification of autonomous indigenous resistance is, therefore, perceived as a response to this process