No dia 19 de Março, Ana Figueiredo (Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile) será a oradora convidada de um Seminário do Grupo de Investigação SPARC, com o tema Postcolonial ideologies and reparation and recognition demands on behalf of the Mapuche people in Chile. A partir das 14h30, na Sala 1 do ICS-ULisboa e online.

Abstract: The Mapuche are an indigenous group who historically inhabited the Wallmapu (a vast piece of territory currently within the boundaries of Argentina and Chile). After the independence of Chile, a civic-military incursion into its ancestral territory led to the dispossession of their land and cycles of impoverishment that still have consequences to this day, making La Araucanía (the region in which the ancestral territorial of Mapuche now stands in Chile) the poorest in the country. In this talk, I present evidence from one qualitative study using semi-structured interview conducted with self-identified Mapuche participants in Chile (N = 28), regarding the characteristics of different postcolonial ideologies, namely historical negation, symbolic exclusion and miscegenation and the significance they have for demands of reparation and recognition on behalf of the Mapuche. Finally, I also introduce results from a survey study with both Mapuche (n = 273) and non-indigenous participants (n = 435) analyzing the relations between postcolonial ideologies and reparation and recognition policies. The results are discussed in terms of their consequences for present-day intergroup relations and the development of public policies aimed at improving the current situation of the Mapuche in Chile.

Short bio: Ana Figueiredo (she/her) is a psychologist and holds a PhD in Social Psychology (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidad de O’Higgins (Chile) and a Principal Investigador (PI) at the Millenium Institute for Authority and Social Regulation (ASOR, Chile).  She is co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) and sub-Director of the Observatory of Violence and Social Legitimacy (OLES). In January 2026 she started serving as an elected Member-at-Large for the Society of Peace, Conflict and Violence (Division 48, APA). Her main research interests are: coloniality, collective memory, historical conflicts, state and political violence, intergroup relations, ideologies, collective action, and police-minority groups' interactions.