Acoustic Colonialism

Acts of Mapuche Interference

By: Luis E. Carcamo-Huechante

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Hardcover | 21 October 2025

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In Acoustic Colonialism, Luis E. Carcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. Carcamo-Huechante theorizes sound as a territory of racial, patriarchal, and colonial hegemony as well as of Mapuche struggle, agency, and response to what he calls acoustic colonialism. From the mid-nineteenth to the present, Chilean literature, radio, and other media have exerted a historic role in disseminating distorted visual and sonic representations of the Mapuche. The enduring effects of what Carcamo-Huechante defines as the colonial ear-the entry point for these misrepresentations - reflect the logic of the Chilean settler nation-state. In response to these aural and sonorous figurations, contemporary Mapuche writers, artists, and activists have produced their own literary, radiophonic, vocal, and musical expressions. The voices, sounds, and discourses of these Mapuche productions contest and disrupt the acoustic colonialism that has dominated the soundscape of the territory designated in present-day cartography as central and southern Chile.

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"Luis E. Carcamo-Huechante provides a radical critique of how to study indigeneity, sound, and their relation to literary and media history. With an approach that draws on Native American and Indigenous scholars from the North and South, he demonstrates the need to consider Indigenous scholarship as central to the interpretation of sound and voices in a settler colonial context while offering transformational readings of the Mapuche literary and mediascape. Acoustic Colonialism is a crucial book." - Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier, author of Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

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