What is it about?
Indigenous people have often been excluded from decision-making roles in Latin American nation-states. In Chile, multicultural policies have increased the scope for employing indigenous professionals to contribute to decision-making in the spheres of education, health and development. Using these state employees' words and insight, this paper examines the kind of power that they are subject to by working in the state, and the ways in which they can attempt to design policies with indigenous people as beneficiaries.
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Why is it important?
Multicultural policies and indigenous political activism have transformed the ways in which rights and programmes have been extended to historically marginal indigenous and Afro-Latin populations. However the positionality of the small number of indigenous and black state employees hired to implement these programmes is not fully understood. This paper aims to explore the perspectives of indigenous state employees in the education sector, looking at how they negotiate forms of exclusion and how they use wider social and political networks to shape implementation
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This page is a summary of: Subaltern Bureaucrats and Postcolonial Rule: Indigenous Professional Registers of Engagement with the Chilean State, Comparative Studies in Society and History, January 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0010417514000668.
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Resources
Sarah Radcliffe list of publications
List of current publications related to this research on Mapuche young people in Chile, and other research projects
Project: Exploring youth identity, multiculturalism and nationalism
Outline of research project on Mapuche young people, indicating methods used, and dissemination activities
ESRC Project: Intercultural Bilingual Education in Chilean classrooms: Exploring youth identities, multiculturalism and nationalism
Provides a project outline, key findings, names of collaborating universities, a list of publications, and an outline of impacts
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