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Relying on ethnographic data, this article critically analyses the pro‐mining position adopted in Chile's Atacama Region by a group of Diaguita women who benefited from a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme to revive indigenous culture. While the desire to escape from poverty (salir adelante, moving forward) appears as the main reason for participating, the benefits generated a sense of indebtedness resulting in allegiance to the company. The investigation also shows how this programme played a part in building a scenario in which indigenous females perform subjects apparently more suited than men to the neoliberal and multiculturalist governmentality of the Chilean State, whose politics favours mining.

Politics of Interculturality fulfills the need for a thorough and critical evaluation of the notion of interculturality. Taking as its main focus institutional and educational discourses on the "intercultural", the volume captures vigorous debates currently underway across four continents - The Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Nearly 60 years after the institutionalization of the field of intercultural communication, the volume's prominent and emerging scholars all agree that change is