El relato indígena contemporáneo en América Latina: retos y oportunidades

Abstract

This text focuses on the ideological grammar of indigenous political discourses issued by organizations and prominent indigenous sociopolitical actors in Latin America. We will try to understand what they want to communicate, and which are the most outstanding and common “frames” to all of them. To this end, we part, on one side, from the theoretical framework of “Frame Analysis”, an analytical category from Goffman’s “symbolic interactionism” (1974). On the other hand, we carry out a qualitative empirical research by analyzing manifestos, idearios, interviews, proclamations and narrations of selected organizations and leaders in all the countries in Latin America. With this, the aim is to investigate the causes and meanings that articulate the “indigenous story” in relation to the contemporary sociopolitical context in Latin American countries. The “political success” of its proposals, and its political and social program is linked to the resonance of these “frameworks” in different internal and external audiences.