Politicization in the Making: The Multiple Faces of the Plurinational State in Chilean News Portals

• In Event: Colonial Discourses, Racial Capitalism, and Decolonial Possibilities

Abstract

The plurinational state proposal offered an opportunity to retune the relations among citizens, Indigenous groups and the Chilean state. National studies reported that one of the main reasons for the rejection of the constitutional proposal was the inclusion of the plurinational state.
This work explores the discursive positions displayed by news portals regarding the plurinational state. It also offers an analysis of their role in the politicization- approached as a social learning process- of Chilean citizens vis-à-vis the recognition of Indigenous rights in the constitutional process in Chile.
Based on the outcomes of the constitutional processes, these discourses have contributed to reifying a social order based on a single monocultural reality, dismissing identity-based social claims of Indigenous groups in Chile.

Author

• Hector Turra Chico, University of Calgary