In the early 1990s, neoliberal ideologues declared a complete break of the present from the past, proclaiming the “end of history” in Chile and the end of projects outside the margins of the neoliberal market logic. The military coup of 1973 in Chile, which overthrew democratically elected President Salvador Allende, violently restructured the Chilean social body through massive detentions, tortures, and disappearances of political actors. With reason, emergent scholarship on General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship grappled with issues of political violence and its gendered dimensions, the economic consequences of neoliberal reform for workers and trade unions, in addition to the manner in which such reforms restructured the forms of political participation and citizenship, and issues of individual and collective trauma and memory. However, many such studies often posited the military dictatorship as a radical rupture from Chile’s long, democratic traditions and, by extension, presented the years of military rule as a...
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November 01 2018
Culture and Politics in Allende’s Chile Available to Purchase
Ephemeral Histories: Public Art, Politics, and the Struggle for the Streets in Chile
, by Trumper, Camilo D., Oakland
: University of California Press
, 2016
, 296 pages, $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-5202-8990-1, $29.95 (paperback), ISBM 978-0-5202-8991-8Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship
, by Barr-Melej, Patrick, Chapel Hill
: University of North Carolina Press
, 2017
, 362 pages, $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4696-3256-8, $34.95 (paperback), 978-1-4696-3257-5
Denisa Jashari
Denisa Jashari
Denisa Jashari is a doctoral candidate in history of Latin America at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the spatial aspects of politics and the formation of political subjectivity among the urban poor in Chile’s capital during the late twentieth century.
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 395–399.
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Denisa Jashari; Culture and Politics in Allende’s Chile. Cultural Politics 1 November 2018; 14 (3): 395–399. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-7093460
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