Abstract

The urban expansion on Mapuche communities in Araucanía is contested by the Ignacia Ñeicurrai Indigenous Community in the commune of Padre Las Casas. The Community has been under pressure for a series of real estate and infrastructure projects; however, it manages to sustain the space they inhabit and that makes up their Lof, human and more-than-human family relationships. This process highlights the need to think about urban development beyond its modern project and open paths towards ways of thinking about the urban from other ways of dwelling and that allow coexistence between them. Based on documentary information and collaborative work with people from the Community, the text proposes to understand this type of conflict as one of coexistence, providing elements that, besides to identify the continuity in the processes of territorial dispossession, contribute to imagining other urban futures, questioning the colonial categories that sustain urbanism and current planning. © 2023, Universidad de Chile, Instituto de la Vivienda. All rights reserved.