Decolonizing Indigenous Law: Self-Determination and Vulnerability in the Mapuche Case

Jorge Aillapan Quinteros

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Abstract: In the present essay, the author--and Mapuche, at the same time--critically analyzes the construction of the Mapuche people as a "vulnerable human group" under the International Human Rights Law and then, according to decolonial option, proposes a hypothesis: if the indigenous people are vulnerable, by definition, to claim the right to self-determination, in the Mapuche case, it is an oxymoron.

Keywords: indigenous peoples; Mapuche; modernity; decoloniality; human rights; vulnerability; victimhood; right to self-determination; racism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89020

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