Professor of Anthropology Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Researcher at the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy VioDemos
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies CIIR
Fernando Pairican has been interested in the recent history of Chile and the Mapuche movement from a Latin American perspective. He has researched on the relationship between the nation-state and the Mapuche people and, specifically, on the emergence of the Mapuche movement in general and the autonomist organizations in particular.
From that work came the book Malon la Rebelión del movimiento mapuche (1990-2013); then the Biografía de Matías Catrileo (2017) and Toqui: Guerra y Tradición en el siglo XIX (2021).
He has worked on issues of democracy and interculturality highlighting the books Nueva Constitución y Pueblos indígenas (Pehuen, 2016); Wallmapu: Plurinacionalidad y Nueva Constitución (2020), Küme Mongen, Suma Qamaña, Mo Ora Riva Riva. Ensayos y propuestas para una Constitución Plurinacional (Pehuen, 2021) and La vía política mapuche apuntes para un estado plurinacional editorial (Paidos, 2022). He is a columnist for Le Monde Diplomatic Chile, The Clinic and CNN Chile.
