Espacios Mapuche en el Área Metropolitana de Santiago Hoy: Paradojas sobre la propiedad y el territorio

The different forms through which the Mapuche people have settled in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago over the last two decades constitute borderlands of a hybrid nature, belonging at the same time to two conflicting normative worlds. These spaces are, on the one hand, the result of the imposition of the Chilean nation state's postfordist spatio-legal imaginary, with a special emphasis on formal property; and, on the other hand, they are a product of the spatial imaginary of the Mapuche people. The processes that configure these spaces are evidence of the renewal of the state's territorial reduction of the Mapuche world. This is seen seen in the formal fragmentation of the traditional indigenous communities in the south and the relocation of the members of these communities to the Metropolis as poor individuals through different forms of subsidies and private property. However these spaces also subvert the structural elements of this process as they actively reconstruct dispossessed Mapuche territoriality inside the Metropolitan area.