Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaSocial rebellion in the city Notes on political significations of Chilean October
This essay proposes some notes on the political significations of the social rebellion which occurredin several Chilean cities on October 18th, 2019. It is argued that the current scenario of mobilizationsrepresents a reaction to the historical process of neoliberalization of Chilean society. Among...
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| Formato: | Revistas |
| Lenguaje: | Español Inglés |
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Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador)
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/33.2020.10 |
| Sumario: | This essay proposes some notes on the political significations of the social rebellion which occurredin several Chilean cities on October 18th, 2019. It is argued that the current scenario of mobilizationsrepresents a reaction to the historical process of neoliberalization of Chilean society. Among the mostimportant characteristics of this rebellion is the diversification of the political uses of urban space andthe subaltern reappropriation of the social articulation of the city. This process intensifies and extendsthe social conflict resulting from the deepening of the contradictions of capital accumulation’s patternimposed by the civic-military Dictatorship, and shows the exhaustion of the subsidiary State and semisovereign democracy. Based on an analysis of the political climate, complemented by the descriptionof the main cycles of social mobilizations in urban space since the second half of the 20th century, it isargued that the current social rebellion partially evidences the breakdown of the neoliberal consensus,the politicization of the social and the strengthening local power in the cities. It is concluded that thenovelty of social rebellion relies on the intensity, breadth and diversification of forms and contents of thepolitical exercise of diverse social and territorial sectors. |
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