Social policies in the ethno-entrepreneurship regime. Possible discourses and trajectories for the Mapuche subject

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to discuss the role played by social policies in post-dictatorship multiculturalism in Chile, with special emphasis on the discourses and trajectories that those statements and technologies help to configure for subjects within the current regime of subjectivation of
ethno-entrepreneurship. Theoretically, we extend elements of the foucauldian analytical of the government of the populations towards the new ethnic question and neoliberal multiculturalism, but located and adapted from a critical Latin American position with a decolonizing aspiration. From the analysis of an extensive textual corpus of public domain sources which originate from state, para-state and sub-state sources of governmentality, we expose and discuss the discursive configurations that best express the ethnogovernmental rationality during the post-dictatorship and the trajectories that social policies help to
configure for their target groups.