Abstract

VASQUEZ-PALMA, Olga Angélica; ALARCON-RETAMAL, Noemí E.; TORRES-MORALES, Claudia A.  and  LLANQUINAO-SANDOVAL, Isamar S.. State violence and Mapuche social movements: violence committed against pichikeche in an incubated rebellion. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.3, pp.360-380.  Epub Jan 31, 2023. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/rlcsnj.20.3.4627.

The Chilean State has committed violence against the Mapuche people for generations, promoting Mapuche children's construction of imaginary realities. This situation has an impact on the political expression of social movements. A qualitative methodology based on an ethnographic design was used. Data generation techniques included participant observation, interviews and pichikeche’s drawings. The participants in this study were pichikeche (children) between 5 and 12 years of age from five Mapuche families supported by loncos (leaders) from their community. The results suggest that imaginary pain and misunderstanding caused by excessive and unjustified violence, racism and cruelty carried out by the State against Mapuche communities has promoted the generation of social movements. This could provoke a similar response among people who lack strategies for the containment and defining of these traumatic events, which is known as an incubated rebellion.

Keywords : Violence; social movement; human rights; Mapuche children; Chile.

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