دانلود کتاب Weaving Solidarity: Decolonial Perspectives on Transnational Advocacy of and with the Mapuche (Mapudzungun)

With this historical framework in mind, the present study is based on the
idea that decolonial movements, especially of groups in Latin America, such
as the Zapatistas or the Mapuche,6
serve as key reference points for contemporary expressions of international solidarity in the Global North. Nevertheless,
the struggle of the Mapuche in particular is largely overlooked and internationally unrecognised. For that purpose, the present study provides a detailed account of how the struggle of the Mapuche became transnationalised since
the 1970s (chapter four) and explains the reasons for transnational Mapuche
advocacy transcending the domestic context in Chile, as well as its framework
and strategies (chapter five).
Notwithstanding, using Indigenous movements as reference points for
struggles for liberation and emancipation is not without its difficulties. On
the one hand, such decolonial movements outside of Eurocentric constraints
are often conceptualised as historical alternatives outside of the left-wing
melancholia (Traverso 2017) in the Global North—that is, a state of mind
to mourn and self-reflect upon the failed and defeated left-wing political
projects throughout the twentieth century, that nevertheless continue to inspire future political action. As such, they carry the burden of representing
a historical horizon for humankind beyond late capitalism and the climate
crisis. Put in drastic terms, the Global North needs to “forget the socialist
mumbo-jumbo and play the Indian card” (Oppenheimer 2002, 54).The present
research will engage in that debate and discuss the complicated relationship
between the Mapuche and the non-Indigenous Left, as well as the consequences and opportunities arising thereof.
On the other hand, and taking the insights from postcolonial critique to
the context of the Americas, there is a long-lasting tradition in the Global
North of stereotyping and romanticising American Indigenous and Native
people (Berkhofer 1979). Particularly, the German-speaking context has been
analysed as overly enthusiastically engaging with and referring to Indigenous
people and Native Americans. Here, the term “Indianthusiasm” intends to describe the particular German racial gaze through which Indigenous people
and Native Americans are racially stereotyped, idealised, and romanticised
(Calloway, Gemunden, and Zantop 2002; Usbeck 2015). In addition to these
debates, the present study seeks to critically discuss the relevance of a Maputhusiasm within the expressions and experiences of international solidarity and advocacy with and of the Mapuche.