El continuo de las violencias contra las mujeres indígenas y su relación con el “nuevo orden” neoliberal: el caso de las mujeres mapuche rurales en el sur de Chile

Abstract

The multiple forms of violence, which the women of the Mapuche movement in defense of the territory are victims of, make it clear that these go beyond the State. This is because Mapuche female leaderships face not only the forms of violence that emerge from contemporary policies, related to the large scale development of extractive projects in indigenous territories, and their resultant social conflicts, but also in the Mapuche communitarian spaces, such as domestic violence in the community and gender violence in Mapuche political instances. Consequently, the violence that Mapuche women experience, and the intensification of it, is directly related to the visibility that their leaders achieve in the so-called conflicto zones.