(Self-representation practices and the dilemmas of self-determination : two sides of Mapuche communication rights)

In this essay I argue that new indigenous media practices must be understood within broader Indigenous social movements emerging in Latin America since 1992. Indigenous social movements in Latin America have been at the forefront of renewed struggles around cultural difference, the right to self-representation and self-determination, as well as calls for a plurality of ways of belonging and being. This chapter provides a brief critical account of the development of Mapuche Indigenous media practices in Chile, arguing how communication and media have taken a central role in re-articulating identity politics within Mapuche social activism by tracing the work since since the 1990s diverse Mapuche media makers and cultural activists