Performing the Jumbled City: Subversive Aesthetics, Anticolonial Indigeneity and Collaborative Ethnography in Santiago de Chile

This book engages with shared representations of the (post)colonial city, challenging the socio-spatial categories usually assigned to indigenous bodies and subjects. Building on analyses of the relationship between race, aesthetics, and politics, the book elaborates on the epistemological possibilities arising from collaborative and decolonial methodologies at the intersection of ethnography, art, performance, and the urban space. It moves from practiced-based research with young Mapuche and mestizo artists and activists in Santiago (Chile), creatively asking what the colonial city looks like for colonised subjects. The book interrogates the relationships not only between researcher and 'researched', but also between history and storytelling, fiction and ethnographic account, individual and collective authorship, and ultimately, between activism and academia.