Browsing by Author "Ortega Alcántara, Susana"

The present study analyses the institutional discourse of the National Indigenist Institute (INI) in the context of the instauration of neoliberalism in Mexico. Considering that the multicultural model was established during the neoliberal transition, this thesis tries to identify in the first place, the way in which the 'indigenous other' is discursively portrayed in this transition; and in second place it tries to distinguish neoliberal ideology in the institution’s discourse. The texts analysed comprehended 10 documents produced by representatives of the institution with an approximate of 150 pages, and the methodological and theoretical framework used was Critical Discourse Analysis with focus on Teun A. Van Dijk. The texts were divided in three periods of time during the decades of 1970, 1980 and 1990, from which a subsequent selection of three documents representing each period was made. The analysis was performed applying three categories obtained from the texts: el indígena, culture and state. It was observed that INI’s discourse develops in the multicultural paradigm towards a vision of the 'indigenous other' as owner of 'capacities', at the same time that it prioritizes the preservation of cultural identity; nevertheless, an essentialist and pejorative perception remained. Moreover, the neoliberal ideology was discursively represented in the centrality of the culture trope more than in the mention of social rights; the diminishing of the State´s intervention and the decentralization of the INI, as well as in the diversification of actors in the indigenist action.