Dana Brablec
Biographic Data
| ID | 334998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Brablec |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Brablec |
| SIGNATURE | BRABLEC D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0816-5526 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Coloniality of care: Indigenous autonomy and the structuring of contemporary health regimes in Chile
This article analyses intercultural health in Chile as a contested institutional regime through which colonial relations are reorganised rather than dismantled. Drawing on long-term, multi-sited ethnographic research conducted between 2016 and 2025, and informed by sociological approaches to governance, coloniality and the politics of recognition, it examines how Mapuche-Indigenous actors engage with state-led intercultural health programmes and …
Racialized surveillance of Roma in Chilean commercial spaces: Everyday racism and the politics of visibility
This article examines how Roma (Gitano) individuals in Chile experience and respond to racialized surveillance in commercial spaces. Based on original ethnographic research, it argues that seemingly isolated incidents of profiling or exclusion reflect systemic anti-Roma racism embedded in Chile’s urban racial order. Through repeated practices of hyper-surveillance, public shaming, and spatial monitoring, Roma are cast as permanent suspects, reinf…
Urban Indigenous territoriality and the politics of climate urbanism in Latin America
Indigenous peoples in Latin America are increasingly urban, yet state imaginaries and scholarly frameworks continue to locate indigeneity in rural spaces. This rural/urban binary is sustained by a model of neoliberal multiculturalism that celebrates cultural difference while denying Indigenous territorial agency in the city. This article challenges these assumptions by arguing that Latin American cities are emerging as key arenas in which Indigen…
Indigenous urbanisation and the decolonial possibilities of internal diasporas
This article proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding Indigenous urbanisation through the concept of internal diaspora. While diaspora theory has expanded to include diverse forms of transnational mobility and identity, it often neglects the experiences of Indigenous peoples who migrate within national borders yet remain structurally displaced. Drawing on Indigenous scholarship and decolonial theory, the article reframes urban indig…
Social reproduction and contestation of racialized Roma exclusion: The role of civil society organizations in the Czech Republic
Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile
This article argues that since the recovery of democracy in Chile in the early 1990s, the state has been reshaping the Indigenous socio-political landscape by adopting neoliberal multiculturalism as a governance model. By not posing significant challenges to the state's neoliberal political and economic priorities, Indigenous cultural activity has been carefully channelled to meet state expectations of what constitutes urban indigeneity. Drawing …
Indigenising the city together: Ethnic place production in Santiago de Chile
The article examines the process of space appropriation and resignification by Indigenous migrant groups in cities. As a result of the repeated use of an urban space over time for cultural activities perceived as emblematic of a common identity, Indigenous individuals confer meanings onto space based on a social construction of their homeland, collectively re-signifying the space, and transforming it into what is presented as a symbolically-based…
Indigenous Language Revitalisation: Mapuzungun Workshops in Santiago de Chile
Most Indigenous peoples' languages are considered severely endangered, and Mapuzungun is no exception. Mapuche associations in Santiago de Chile have implemented a series of workshops to revitalise the language and revert this trend. This article uses ethnographic data to analyse two interconnected aspects that have motivated members of Mapuche associations to participate in community language workshops, namely identity and community-building. Al…
Who Counts as an Authentic Indigenous? Collective Identity Negotiations in the Chilean Urban Context
While increasing numbers of Indigenous peoples worldwide live in cities, mainstream research and practice continue to render urban indigeneity invisible and assume that Indigenous groups remain confined to a rural homeland. As a strategy of resistance to assimilation to their nation-states, Indigenous peoples in cities have tended to foster conceptions of ethno-cultural purity to defend their threatened cultures. Building on the literature on soc…
Relational Goods and Endurance of Voluntary Associational Participation: The Case of the Indigenous Mapuche in Santiago de Chile
This article analyses the reasons for the continuing membership of Mapuche associations in Santiago de Chile after the promulgation of the Indigenous Law in 1993. By following a relational goods approach, the article suggests that the constructed nature of ethnicity leads the Mapuche to create and join ethnic associations in an urban milieu. This study reveals that the main motivations for sustaining an active associational engagement are threefo…
Who Counts as an Authentic Indigenous? Collective Identity Negotiations in the Chilean Urban Context
While increasing numbers of Indigenous peoples worldwide live in cities, mainstream research and practice continue to render urban indigeneity invisible and assume that Indigenous groups remain confined to a rural homeland. As a strategy of resistance to assimilation to their nation-states, Indigenous peoples in cities have tended to foster conceptions of ethno-cultural purity to defend their threatened cultures. Building on the literature on soc…
Indigenising the city together: Ethnic place production in Santiago de Chile
The article examines the process of space appropriation and resignification by Indigenous migrant groups in cities. As a result of the repeated use of an urban space over time for cultural activities perceived as emblematic of a common identity, Indigenous individuals confer meanings onto space based on a social construction of their homeland, collectively re-signifying the space, and transforming it into what is presented as a symbolically-based…
Social reproduction and contestation of racialized Roma exclusion: The role of civil society organizations in the Czech Republic
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile
This article argues that since the recovery of democracy in Chile in the early 1990s, the state has been reshaping the Indigenous socio-political landscape by adopting neoliberal multiculturalism as a governance model. By not posing significant challenges to the state's neoliberal political and economic priorities, Indigenous cultural activity has been carefully channelled to meet state expectations of what constitutes urban indigeneity. Drawing …
Indigenous Language Revitalisation: Mapuzungun Workshops in Santiago de Chile
Most Indigenous peoples' languages are considered severely endangered, and Mapuzungun is no exception. Mapuche associations in Santiago de Chile have implemented a series of workshops to revitalise the language and revert this trend. This article uses ethnographic data to analyse two interconnected aspects that have motivated members of Mapuche associations to participate in community language workshops, namely identity and community-building. Al…
Relational Goods and Endurance of Voluntary Associational Participation: The Case of the Indigenous Mapuche in Santiago de Chile
This article analyses the reasons for the continuing membership of Mapuche associations in Santiago de Chile after the promulgation of the Indigenous Law in 1993. By following a relational goods approach, the article suggests that the constructed nature of ethnicity leads the Mapuche to create and join ethnic associations in an urban milieu. This study reveals that the main motivations for sustaining an active associational engagement are threefo…
Relational Goods and Endurance of Voluntary Associational Participation: The Case of the Indigenous Mapuche in Santiago de Chile
This article analyses the reasons for the continuing membership of Mapuche associations in Santiago de Chile after the promulgation of the Indigenous Law in 1993. By following a relational goods approach, the article suggests that the constructed nature of ethnicity leads the Mapuche to create and join ethnic associations in an urban milieu. This study reveals that the main motivations for sustaining an active associational engagement are threefo…
Who Counts as an Authentic Indigenous? Collective Identity Negotiations in the Chilean Urban Context
While increasing numbers of Indigenous peoples worldwide live in cities, mainstream research and practice continue to render urban indigeneity invisible and assume that Indigenous groups remain confined to a rural homeland. As a strategy of resistance to assimilation to their nation-states, Indigenous peoples in cities have tended to foster conceptions of ethno-cultural purity to defend their threatened cultures. Building on the literature on soc…
Indigenous Language Revitalisation: Mapuzungun Workshops in Santiago de Chile
Most Indigenous peoples' languages are considered severely endangered, and Mapuzungun is no exception. Mapuche associations in Santiago de Chile have implemented a series of workshops to revitalise the language and revert this trend. This article uses ethnographic data to analyse two interconnected aspects that have motivated members of Mapuche associations to participate in community language workshops, namely identity and community-building. Al…
Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile
This article argues that since the recovery of democracy in Chile in the early 1990s, the state has been reshaping the Indigenous socio-political landscape by adopting neoliberal multiculturalism as a governance model. By not posing significant challenges to the state's neoliberal political and economic priorities, Indigenous cultural activity has been carefully channelled to meet state expectations of what constitutes urban indigeneity. Drawing …
Indigenising the city together: Ethnic place production in Santiago de Chile
The article examines the process of space appropriation and resignification by Indigenous migrant groups in cities. As a result of the repeated use of an urban space over time for cultural activities perceived as emblematic of a common identity, Indigenous individuals confer meanings onto space based on a social construction of their homeland, collectively re-signifying the space, and transforming it into what is presented as a symbolically-based…
Social reproduction and contestation of racialized Roma exclusion: The role of civil society organizations in the Czech Republic
Urban Indigenous territoriality and the politics of climate urbanism in Latin America
Indigenous peoples in Latin America are increasingly urban, yet state imaginaries and scholarly frameworks continue to locate indigeneity in rural spaces. This rural/urban binary is sustained by a model of neoliberal multiculturalism that celebrates cultural difference while denying Indigenous territorial agency in the city. This article challenges these assumptions by arguing that Latin American cities are emerging as key arenas in which Indigen…
Indigenous urbanisation and the decolonial possibilities of internal diasporas
This article proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding Indigenous urbanisation through the concept of internal diaspora. While diaspora theory has expanded to include diverse forms of transnational mobility and identity, it often neglects the experiences of Indigenous peoples who migrate within national borders yet remain structurally displaced. Drawing on Indigenous scholarship and decolonial theory, the article reframes urban indig…
Coloniality of care: Indigenous autonomy and the structuring of contemporary health regimes in Chile
This article analyses intercultural health in Chile as a contested institutional regime through which colonial relations are reorganised rather than dismantled. Drawing on long-term, multi-sited ethnographic research conducted between 2016 and 2025, and informed by sociological approaches to governance, coloniality and the politics of recognition, it examines how Mapuche-Indigenous actors engage with state-led intercultural health programmes and …
Racialized surveillance of Roma in Chilean commercial spaces: Everyday racism and the politics of visibility
This article examines how Roma (Gitano) individuals in Chile experience and respond to racialized surveillance in commercial spaces. Based on original ethnographic research, it argues that seemingly isolated incidents of profiling or exclusion reflect systemic anti-Roma racism embedded in Chile’s urban racial order. Through repeated practices of hyper-surveillance, public shaming, and spatial monitoring, Roma are cast as permanent suspects, reinf…
Indigenous (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Geography (4 works)