Paper short abstract:

With particular focus on the case of the Neuquén province, I will show how the increase of indigenous rights and the implementation of UNDRIP have led to important changes in the mapuche social organization and leadership leading to the reinforcement of indigenous NGOs and urban organizations.

Paper long abstract:

In Argentina, due to the federal organization of the State, indigenous rights are effective at national and provincial levels. This conducts to the multiplication of different legal frames inside the same country. With particular focus on the case of the Neuquén province, I will show how the implementation of indigenous rights and of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples have led to important changes in the mapuche social organization and leadership leading to the reinforcement of indigenous NGOs and urban organizations. I will describe how the local is not anymore embedded in the national, and how new transnational relations among different indigenous people have drawn new alliances and/or antagonisms.