Intercultural Studies from Southern Chile

Gertrudis Payàs is a professional translator and interpreter (École de Traduction et d’Interprétation, Université de Genève). She obtained her PhD on the history of translation in colonial Mexico from the University of Ottawa in 2005 and her thesis was published in 2010 as El revés del tapiz. Traducción y discurso de identidad en la Nueva España (Iberoamericana, Madrid and Frankfurt). She has lived in Chile since 2004 and is an academic member of staff at the Department of Languages of the Universidad Católica de Temuco, a researcher at its Núcleo de Estudios Interétnicos e Interculturales (NEII) and a member of the Alfaqueque Research Group on interpreting studies at the University of Salamanca. Her research is focused on the history of translation and interpreting in Latin America, particularly Chile and Mexico. She has directed various projects funded by the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (FONDECYT) on translation and interpreting on the Araucanian frontier. Her published work includes a new edition of José Toribio Medina’s Biblioteca Chilena de Traductores (1820–1924) in 2007, La mediación lingüístico-cultural en tiempos de guerra (co-edited with J.M. Zavala, 2012), and a modern reader’s edition of Los parlamentos hispano-mapuches (1593–1803). Textos fundamentales (2018). She has also co-edited The Hispanic-Mapuche Parlamentos: Interethnic Geo-Politics and Concessionary Spaces in Colonial America (Springer, 2019), with J.M. Zavala and T. D. Dillehay.Fabien Le Bonniec holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology from the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and in History (major Ethno-History) from the Universidad de Chile (2011). He is an academic member of staff at the Department of Anthropology of the Universidad Católica de Temuco and a researcher at the Núcleo de Estudios Interétnicos e Interculturales (NEII). His current research is focused on the Chilean legal system in the context of interculturality and the relations between the Mapuche people and State law, combining ethnography and socio-legal analysis. He has also worked on the problem of differentiated territorialities in the context of the central–south of Chile. He has directed and been co-researcher on a number of publicly funded projects, including Justice and Interculturality in the southern macro-region of Chile (Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, FONDECYT),  A Culturally Relevant Service Protocol for Mapuche Users in the Courts of Justice in Araucania (Fondo de Fomento del Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, FONDEF) and Reformed Justices and Access to Justice in Chile. Sociology of Public Action and Judicial Reception (FONDECYT). He co-edited Les Mapuches à la mode with R. Salas (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2015).

• 1. Commentary to Part I: Nineteenth-Century Araucania: Chileans, Settlers and Indians.- 2. In Pursuit of the Ideal Chilean Citizen: The Discursive Foundations of the Colonisation by Immigration of Araucania in the Nineteenth-Century.- 3. “As Truthful as it is Patriotic”: The Dispute between Rodolfo Lenz and Manuel Manquilef over Translation.- 4. Commentary to Part II: Interdiscursivity and Interlegality as Key Dimen-sions of Intercultural Coexistence.- 5. Indigenous Juridicity and Cultural Differences. When Judges Discuss Cul-ture in Cases of Domestic Violence in the Mapuche Community Context (Chile).- 6. Meaningful Spaces for Language Socialisation in the Discourse of Mapuche Young People: A Qualitative Approach.- Episteme for Intercultural Dialogue between Mapuche Education and School Education.- 8. Commentary to Part III: Notes and Comments from the Perspective of the Liberating Intercultural Philosophy of ‘Nuestra América’ .- 9. Challenges for an Intercultural Democracy and Politics in the Chilean Wallmapu.- 10. The Endless Apogee of Interculturality: Critical Anthropological and Philosophical Reflections.- 11. Words, Relationality and Recognition: Apropos Axel Honneth.