Intra-community violence and social disharmonization as modes of social control: Protected democracy and its effects on indigenous women and children

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the intra-community violence faced by indigenous peoples in Chile. I am interested in understanding how socio-community violence is functional to the social disharmonization of indigenous peoples, the delegitimization of women's agencies and the control of intercultural discourse by public institutions. Based on an analysis located in community-territorial, decolonial feminist epistemologies and critical theories of law through decolonial and post-qualitative methodologies, a corpus made up of documents produced by indigenous organizations at the beginning of post-dictatorship democracy, research previously carried out by the author and the work developed by other researchers regarding violence against indigenous women and children in the context of political violence.