The aim of this line of research is to describe the fate of indigenous and non-indigenous subjectivities in intercultural contexts in order to analyze everyday practices, socio-cultural processes and specific events in which these related subjectivities coexist, become tense, and clash.
Instead of working with fixed hypotheses, this research line wants to explore the problem methodologically and conceptually, expecting to improve the understanding of subjectivity, indigenousness, and conflict, and considering both thematic categories and social relations that emerge around particular events and everyday routines, and long lasting processes.
Likewise, indigenous and non-indigenous subjectivities are considered to be a historically built phenomenon, but at the same time in constant transformation. By recognizing the contemporary definite existence of indigenous people in Chile, we seek to avoid the theoretical danger of placing these people and their practices as belonging to the past or not matching with the present or future of the state-nation.