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The election of Michelle Bachelet, the first female president of Chile, brought to the public sphere topics such as gender, inequality, and the legacy of seventeen years of military rule. Former dictator Augusto Pinochet instructed Chileans to "for-get" and move on, but this is complicated because individual and collective identities are anchored in memory and articulated through discourse. What happens to a nation and its people when the obliged referent of their recent history is one that hardly anyone wants to address? This book reveals the incongruity between what current media say about Chilean identity and what most people experience, showing the tensions that prevail within a society that is also quickly changing due to globalization. The author engages with the old dichotomy between agency and structure, proposing a new model for understanding identity from an intercultural perspective.
On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with worldwide debates about why and how deeds of violence inflicted by the state on its own citizens should be remembered, and by whom. The sites investigated — including the infamous National Stadium — are among the most iconic of more than 1,000 such sites throughout the country. The study grants a glimpse of the depth o...
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume's collaborators--experts in the history and politics of the societies covered in their chapters--explore eleven episodes of democratic brea...
El valenciano Antonio Llidó (Xàbia, 1936) es el único sacerdote detenido desaparecido de los seis asesinados por la dictadura del general Augusto Pinochet. Llegó a Chile en 1969 y muy pronto se comprometió con la transformación de una sociedad herida por unas lacerantes injusticias, según describió en su correspondencia, fuente esencial de este libro junto con los testimonios de las 49 personas entrevistadas por el autor y una profusa documentación hasta ahora inédita. Antonio Llidó apoyó al Gobierno de Salvador Allende y participó en la construcción del socialismo como sacerdote obrero, dirigente del Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria y miembro de Cristianos por el Sociali...
How Nintendo Mario-ified an existing Japanese NES game to creat Super Mario Bros. 2.
In Negotiating Space in Latin America, edited by Patricia Vilches, contributors approach spatial practices from multidisciplinary angles. The volume advances innovative conceptualizations on spatiality and treats subjects that range from nineteenth century-nation formation to twenty-first century social movements.
For the first time, this volume takes a global and comparative approach to the lived local history of Vatican II.