Abstract

The urban growth of the city of Padre Las Casas on Mapuche indigenous lands has an impact on a deterritorialization process of indigenous inhabitants. The present text describes conflicts related to urbanization processes. We propose that the concepts of urban studies to explain the disputes in the expansion of the urban peripheries of Latin American cities, are insufficient to address the ontological transformation of the soil / territory. We explore the concepts of decolonial theories to reveal the cultural space implications of urban expansion process and Mapuche deterritorialization. Our hypothesis is that the urbanization process is supported by a colonial conception of power, of being and dwell over Mapuche Society, more than by institutional actions.