ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL POLICIES IN CHILEAN NEOLIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM. RECOGNIZE, PROTECT AND ACTIVATE

Abstract

In the following article I present an analysis of three discursive configurations that can be identified from a corpus of state, supra-state and para-state sources of ethnogovernmentality, results that are part of a study about the role of social policies in the Chilean neoliberal multiculturalism of postdictatorship. Theoretically, I attempt to extend elements of the Foucauldian analysis about the government of the populations to the new ethnic question and the multicultural neoliberalism, nevertheless, in this case it is appropriate from a “decolonial” Latin American positioning. Based on this produced textual corpus, I introduce and discuss the three discursive configurations that best express the ethnogovernmental rationality and support the technologies of the multicultural social policy intervention of the studied period, related to the recognition, protection, and the activation of the indigenous subject.