Manuela Badilla Rajevic
Biographic Data
| ID | 1026694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuela Badilla Rajevic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuela Badilla |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajevic |
| SIGNATURE | RAJEVIC M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Valparaiso University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9643-3761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cross-temporal protests
This article explores the role of monument contestation, carried out via desecration and destruction, in unsettling the experience of time for people mobilizing for social justice. Drawing on 45 interviews with participants in the Chilean protests of 2019–2020 and an archival analysis of press reports and official documents, this article examines the wave of monument contestation that affected more than 64% of public monuments and the effects of …
Memorialicidio
This article analyzes the recent wave of attacks targeting sites of remembrance of human rights violations in Chile. Between 2018 and 2024, more than 163 desecrations have been registered, reflecting the threat human rights’ heritage sites are facing in the midst of a rising far right and their denialist discourses. This phenomenon is conceptualized as Memorialicidio , that is to say, destructive actions that seek to cause damage to those commemo…
Between iconophilia and iconoclasm
The article examines the rise of a conservative memory in Chilean heritage and memory fields. Specifically, it delves into how this shift is represented in iconophilia and iconoclasm. The study analyses both the discourses that validate the military coup as a form of salvation and advocates for a re-installation of national symbols (iconophilia), and the reactionary cultural expressions that challenge the advancements in human rights and dictator…
Intervención monumental en Chile
El 18 de octubre de 2019 se inició una de las movilizaciones sociales más masivas en la historia de Chile, transformando el escenario político del país y desencadenando un fenómeno menos esperado, una oleada de alteraciones monumentales caracterizada por el cuestionamiento, intervención, creación y en algunos casos destrucción de los monumentos públicos de Chile. Si bien este fenómeno no es nuevo en el mundo, en Chile se expresó en una magnitud n…
Memory Sites Under Attack
In July, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo issued an urgent call for national and international support. Their iconic decades-long search for their grandchildren, disappeared during the reign of st
De la “transmisión” a la “conexión” generacional de memorias en escenarios conflictivos
En el contexto de la conmemoración de los 50 años del golpe de Estado en Chile, las preguntas sobre qué, cómo y desde dónde transmitir las memorias del pasado son acuciantes. En el campo de los estudios de memoria, las investigaciones sobre transmisión generacional se han situado en escenarios de postconflictos, focalizándose principalmente en los emprendedores de memoria, en lo que es transmitido, y en sus destinatarios. Considerando la compleji…
When my neighborhood woke up
Usos de Memorias y Producción de Identidades en un “Barrio Crítico” en Santiago de Chile
Siguiendo la lógica de un estudio de caso, nos focalizamos en un barrio popular de Santiago (Chile), La Legua, reconocido como población “emblemática” por sus luchas contra la dictadura militar, e identificado por el Estado como “barrio crítico” por su asociación al narcotráfico. Lo anterior ha motivado que sea objeto de un polémico “Plan de Intervención” estatal para contrarrestar la violencia. Como parte de una etnografía desarrollada durante t…
Patriarchy is a Judge
In recent years many articles have discussed transitional justice in Chile with respect to the Pinochet dictatorship, and some of these have had a gendered perspective. In this article we seek to build upon this research, but touching upon recent human rights violations and political sexual violence that took place in Chile during the 18-O Uprising (October 2019 to January 2020). Key in our argument is that young feminists and sexual dissidents h…
Heritage from below in Latin America
After the end of Latin American dictatorships, scholars closely analyzed the relationship between violence, memory and democracy. But these societies have continued to grapple not only with the legacy of authoritarian governments but with centuries of colonial power, with the result that many of the assumptions of earlier scholars are now being revisited. Intersectional questions of race, indigeneity and gender continue to refashion our understan…
Human rights memorials in turmoil
Memory on Chile’s Frontlines
Red underwear hang across a memorial to victims of state violence, including women victimized by sexual violence, in downtown Santiago. (MANUELA BADILLA RAJEVIC)Chilean President Sebastian Pinera i
The 2019–2020 Chilean anti-neoliberal uprising
This article analyzes the interventions of monuments that occurred in conjunction with the mass 2019–2020 anti-neoliberal protests in Chile where almost 400 monuments representing Spanish conquerors and colonial and nineteenth-century national heroes were pulled down, contested, or transformed. The article illustrates how a social movement against social injustices and inequalities enacted and engaged with decolonial repertoires of action. It ana…
La transmisión de memoria como mecanismo de intervención
no se ha puesto suficiente atencin a qu y cmo se transmite el pasado considerando que dichos territorios enfrentan no solo violencias pasadas, sino tambin presentes, como el hostigamiento policial o el narcotrfico
Joint action as a practice of memory transmission in a poor urban neighborhood of Santiago, Chile
In Latin America, one of the key tasks of Community and Liberation Psychology has been to recover the memories of marginalized and excluded communities that have experienced multiple pasts marked by political violence. In Chile, researchers have focused on poor urban neighborhoods, where the question of how memories are transmitted in areas where conflicts and violence are still present has been overlooked. In this context, the following article …
Memorias urbanas en la periferia de Santiago. Develando violencias y resistencias en la ciudad
Este ensayo explora cómo la experiencia de vivir en la periferia económica y social de Santiago, marcada por un crecimiento rápido, desregulado y desigual, habilita formas de recordar que producen o dificultan sentidos de pertenencia territorial. Se reflexiona sobre el rol de los territorios periféricos en la construcción y transmisión de memorias en jóvenes que no vivieron el pasado reciente de Chile. Para ello, se analizan dos dimensiones relac…
When a Social Movement Quarantines
This article reflects on the connections between space, social movements, and urban memory by analyzing the effects of quarantine on the massive Chilean anti-neoliberal movement. It explores two aspects of the quarantine that have unsettled and challenged the spatial dimension of collective action: restrictions on transit through the city and the imposition of hygienic measures on infrastructure and social interactions. The article suggests that …
Conmemoraciones periféricas en barrios segregados en Santiago de Chile
Este artículo analiza los efectos sociales y políticos de la producción de memoria en la construcción de comunidad y fortalecimiento de la identidad en barrios periféricos y segregados de la ciudad de Santiago. A partir de un estudio cualitativo que considera el análisis de 55 entrevistas con jóvenes que habitan algunos de estos territorios y de observación participante de actividades conmemorativas del golpe de Estado desarrolladas cada 11 de se…
Murales y políticas de memoria en un "barrio crítico" de Santiago de Chile
La recuperación de las memorias de territorios que han sufrido la violencia y represión política en los países del Cono Sur, ha sido una tarea central en las investigaciones de las Ciencias Sociales. En Chile, las "poblaciones emblemáticas" han sido un foco primordial en estos trabajos dado su rol activo en la resistencia contra la dictadura. El presente estudio se centra en una "población emblemática" que tiene la particularidad de ser catalogad…
Ephemeral and Ludic Strategies of Remembering in the Streets
This article examines a profound turn in the commemoration and representations of the dictatorial past in Chile (1973–1990), where young people who did not experience firsthand the authoritarian order are publicly creating fleeting images, practices, and objects to remember the military dictatorship. These are urban ephemeral and ludic mnemonic assemblages (Freeman, Nienass, and Daniell 2015) that connect past and present events and demand new wa…
The Chilean Student Movement
This article illustrates the connection between the rise of social movements and the profound transformations in the ways post-conflict societies symbolize their difficult past. It examines how the 2011 Chilean student movement developed an alternative memory about Chile's Pinochet regime. I show how the movement claimed fundamental changes within the educational and political systems, framing its demands as a critical response to the socioeconom…
Tracing Mapuche Exclusion from Post-Dictatorial Truth Commissions in Chile
This article critically examines the official misrecognition of Mapuche experiences of violence during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973–1990) in state-sponsored truth commissions in Chile. We examine official post-dictatorial truth commission politics, narratives and procedures, analyzing how they envisioned the Mapuche as a political (absent) subject and how specific and homogenizing notions of victimhood were produced. We draw attention to…
The Day of the Young Combatant, generational struggles in the memory field of post-dictatorship Chile
This article explores the multilayered struggles within the memory field in post-dictatorship Chilean society by investigating the Day of the Young Combatant, a commemoration of the murder of two young brothers perpetrated by police officers in 1985. Every 29 March, people born after the end of the dictatorship—members of the post-dictatorship generation—commemorate through cultural activities and violent riots. Since the murder, the commemoratio…
The 2019–2020 Chilean anti-neoliberal uprising
This article analyzes the interventions of monuments that occurred in conjunction with the mass 2019–2020 anti-neoliberal protests in Chile where almost 400 monuments representing Spanish conquerors and colonial and nineteenth-century national heroes were pulled down, contested, or transformed. The article illustrates how a social movement against social injustices and inequalities enacted and engaged with decolonial repertoires of action. It ana…
The Chilean Student Movement
This article illustrates the connection between the rise of social movements and the profound transformations in the ways post-conflict societies symbolize their difficult past. It examines how the 2011 Chilean student movement developed an alternative memory about Chile's Pinochet regime. I show how the movement claimed fundamental changes within the educational and political systems, framing its demands as a critical response to the socioeconom…
The Day of the Young Combatant, generational struggles in the memory field of post-dictatorship Chile
This article explores the multilayered struggles within the memory field in post-dictatorship Chilean society by investigating the Day of the Young Combatant, a commemoration of the murder of two young brothers perpetrated by police officers in 1985. Every 29 March, people born after the end of the dictatorship—members of the post-dictatorship generation—commemorate through cultural activities and violent riots. Since the murder, the commemoratio…
Human rights memorials in turmoil
Ephemeral and Ludic Strategies of Remembering in the Streets
This article examines a profound turn in the commemoration and representations of the dictatorial past in Chile (1973–1990), where young people who did not experience firsthand the authoritarian order are publicly creating fleeting images, practices, and objects to remember the military dictatorship. These are urban ephemeral and ludic mnemonic assemblages (Freeman, Nienass, and Daniell 2015) that connect past and present events and demand new wa…
Tracing Mapuche Exclusion from Post-Dictatorial Truth Commissions in Chile
This article critically examines the official misrecognition of Mapuche experiences of violence during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973–1990) in state-sponsored truth commissions in Chile. We examine official post-dictatorial truth commission politics, narratives and procedures, analyzing how they envisioned the Mapuche as a political (absent) subject and how specific and homogenizing notions of victimhood were produced. We draw attention to…
Between iconophilia and iconoclasm
The article examines the rise of a conservative memory in Chilean heritage and memory fields. Specifically, it delves into how this shift is represented in iconophilia and iconoclasm. The study analyses both the discourses that validate the military coup as a form of salvation and advocates for a re-installation of national symbols (iconophilia), and the reactionary cultural expressions that challenge the advancements in human rights and dictator…
When a Social Movement Quarantines
This article reflects on the connections between space, social movements, and urban memory by analyzing the effects of quarantine on the massive Chilean anti-neoliberal movement. It explores two aspects of the quarantine that have unsettled and challenged the spatial dimension of collective action: restrictions on transit through the city and the imposition of hygienic measures on infrastructure and social interactions. The article suggests that …
Patriarchy is a Judge
In recent years many articles have discussed transitional justice in Chile with respect to the Pinochet dictatorship, and some of these have had a gendered perspective. In this article we seek to build upon this research, but touching upon recent human rights violations and political sexual violence that took place in Chile during the 18-O Uprising (October 2019 to January 2020). Key in our argument is that young feminists and sexual dissidents h…
Heritage from below in Latin America
After the end of Latin American dictatorships, scholars closely analyzed the relationship between violence, memory and democracy. But these societies have continued to grapple not only with the legacy of authoritarian governments but with centuries of colonial power, with the result that many of the assumptions of earlier scholars are now being revisited. Intersectional questions of race, indigeneity and gender continue to refashion our understan…
Conmemoraciones periféricas en barrios segregados en Santiago de Chile
Este artículo analiza los efectos sociales y políticos de la producción de memoria en la construcción de comunidad y fortalecimiento de la identidad en barrios periféricos y segregados de la ciudad de Santiago. A partir de un estudio cualitativo que considera el análisis de 55 entrevistas con jóvenes que habitan algunos de estos territorios y de observación participante de actividades conmemorativas del golpe de Estado desarrolladas cada 11 de se…
The Day of the Young Combatant, generational struggles in the memory field of post-dictatorship Chile
This article explores the multilayered struggles within the memory field in post-dictatorship Chilean society by investigating the Day of the Young Combatant, a commemoration of the murder of two young brothers perpetrated by police officers in 1985. Every 29 March, people born after the end of the dictatorship—members of the post-dictatorship generation—commemorate through cultural activities and violent riots. Since the murder, the commemoratio…
Tracing Mapuche Exclusion from Post-Dictatorial Truth Commissions in Chile
This article critically examines the official misrecognition of Mapuche experiences of violence during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973–1990) in state-sponsored truth commissions in Chile. We examine official post-dictatorial truth commission politics, narratives and procedures, analyzing how they envisioned the Mapuche as a political (absent) subject and how specific and homogenizing notions of victimhood were produced. We draw attention to…
Ephemeral and Ludic Strategies of Remembering in the Streets
This article examines a profound turn in the commemoration and representations of the dictatorial past in Chile (1973–1990), where young people who did not experience firsthand the authoritarian order are publicly creating fleeting images, practices, and objects to remember the military dictatorship. These are urban ephemeral and ludic mnemonic assemblages (Freeman, Nienass, and Daniell 2015) that connect past and present events and demand new wa…
The Chilean Student Movement
This article illustrates the connection between the rise of social movements and the profound transformations in the ways post-conflict societies symbolize their difficult past. It examines how the 2011 Chilean student movement developed an alternative memory about Chile's Pinochet regime. I show how the movement claimed fundamental changes within the educational and political systems, framing its demands as a critical response to the socioeconom…
Memorias urbanas en la periferia de Santiago. Develando violencias y resistencias en la ciudad
Este ensayo explora cómo la experiencia de vivir en la periferia económica y social de Santiago, marcada por un crecimiento rápido, desregulado y desigual, habilita formas de recordar que producen o dificultan sentidos de pertenencia territorial. Se reflexiona sobre el rol de los territorios periféricos en la construcción y transmisión de memorias en jóvenes que no vivieron el pasado reciente de Chile. Para ello, se analizan dos dimensiones relac…
When a Social Movement Quarantines
This article reflects on the connections between space, social movements, and urban memory by analyzing the effects of quarantine on the massive Chilean anti-neoliberal movement. It explores two aspects of the quarantine that have unsettled and challenged the spatial dimension of collective action: restrictions on transit through the city and the imposition of hygienic measures on infrastructure and social interactions. The article suggests that …
Conmemoraciones periféricas en barrios segregados en Santiago de Chile
Este artículo analiza los efectos sociales y políticos de la producción de memoria en la construcción de comunidad y fortalecimiento de la identidad en barrios periféricos y segregados de la ciudad de Santiago. A partir de un estudio cualitativo que considera el análisis de 55 entrevistas con jóvenes que habitan algunos de estos territorios y de observación participante de actividades conmemorativas del golpe de Estado desarrolladas cada 11 de se…
Murales y políticas de memoria en un "barrio crítico" de Santiago de Chile
La recuperación de las memorias de territorios que han sufrido la violencia y represión política en los países del Cono Sur, ha sido una tarea central en las investigaciones de las Ciencias Sociales. En Chile, las "poblaciones emblemáticas" han sido un foco primordial en estos trabajos dado su rol activo en la resistencia contra la dictadura. El presente estudio se centra en una "población emblemática" que tiene la particularidad de ser catalogad…
Memory on Chile’s Frontlines
Red underwear hang across a memorial to victims of state violence, including women victimized by sexual violence, in downtown Santiago. (MANUELA BADILLA RAJEVIC)Chilean President Sebastian Pinera i
The 2019–2020 Chilean anti-neoliberal uprising
This article analyzes the interventions of monuments that occurred in conjunction with the mass 2019–2020 anti-neoliberal protests in Chile where almost 400 monuments representing Spanish conquerors and colonial and nineteenth-century national heroes were pulled down, contested, or transformed. The article illustrates how a social movement against social injustices and inequalities enacted and engaged with decolonial repertoires of action. It ana…
La transmisión de memoria como mecanismo de intervención
no se ha puesto suficiente atencin a qu y cmo se transmite el pasado considerando que dichos territorios enfrentan no solo violencias pasadas, sino tambin presentes, como el hostigamiento policial o el narcotrfico
Joint action as a practice of memory transmission in a poor urban neighborhood of Santiago, Chile
In Latin America, one of the key tasks of Community and Liberation Psychology has been to recover the memories of marginalized and excluded communities that have experienced multiple pasts marked by political violence. In Chile, researchers have focused on poor urban neighborhoods, where the question of how memories are transmitted in areas where conflicts and violence are still present has been overlooked. In this context, the following article …
Usos de Memorias y Producción de Identidades en un “Barrio Crítico” en Santiago de Chile
Siguiendo la lógica de un estudio de caso, nos focalizamos en un barrio popular de Santiago (Chile), La Legua, reconocido como población “emblemática” por sus luchas contra la dictadura militar, e identificado por el Estado como “barrio crítico” por su asociación al narcotráfico. Lo anterior ha motivado que sea objeto de un polémico “Plan de Intervención” estatal para contrarrestar la violencia. Como parte de una etnografía desarrollada durante t…
Patriarchy is a Judge
In recent years many articles have discussed transitional justice in Chile with respect to the Pinochet dictatorship, and some of these have had a gendered perspective. In this article we seek to build upon this research, but touching upon recent human rights violations and political sexual violence that took place in Chile during the 18-O Uprising (October 2019 to January 2020). Key in our argument is that young feminists and sexual dissidents h…
Heritage from below in Latin America
After the end of Latin American dictatorships, scholars closely analyzed the relationship between violence, memory and democracy. But these societies have continued to grapple not only with the legacy of authoritarian governments but with centuries of colonial power, with the result that many of the assumptions of earlier scholars are now being revisited. Intersectional questions of race, indigeneity and gender continue to refashion our understan…
Human rights memorials in turmoil
Memory Sites Under Attack
In July, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo issued an urgent call for national and international support. Their iconic decades-long search for their grandchildren, disappeared during the reign of st
De la “transmisión” a la “conexión” generacional de memorias en escenarios conflictivos
En el contexto de la conmemoración de los 50 años del golpe de Estado en Chile, las preguntas sobre qué, cómo y desde dónde transmitir las memorias del pasado son acuciantes. En el campo de los estudios de memoria, las investigaciones sobre transmisión generacional se han situado en escenarios de postconflictos, focalizándose principalmente en los emprendedores de memoria, en lo que es transmitido, y en sus destinatarios. Considerando la compleji…
When my neighborhood woke up
Between iconophilia and iconoclasm
The article examines the rise of a conservative memory in Chilean heritage and memory fields. Specifically, it delves into how this shift is represented in iconophilia and iconoclasm. The study analyses both the discourses that validate the military coup as a form of salvation and advocates for a re-installation of national symbols (iconophilia), and the reactionary cultural expressions that challenge the advancements in human rights and dictator…
Intervención monumental en Chile
El 18 de octubre de 2019 se inició una de las movilizaciones sociales más masivas en la historia de Chile, transformando el escenario político del país y desencadenando un fenómeno menos esperado, una oleada de alteraciones monumentales caracterizada por el cuestionamiento, intervención, creación y en algunos casos destrucción de los monumentos públicos de Chile. Si bien este fenómeno no es nuevo en el mundo, en Chile se expresó en una magnitud n…
Cross-temporal protests
This article explores the role of monument contestation, carried out via desecration and destruction, in unsettling the experience of time for people mobilizing for social justice. Drawing on 45 interviews with participants in the Chilean protests of 2019–2020 and an archival analysis of press reports and official documents, this article examines the wave of monument contestation that affected more than 64% of public monuments and the effects of …
Memorialicidio
This article analyzes the recent wave of attacks targeting sites of remembrance of human rights violations in Chile. Between 2018 and 2024, more than 163 desecrations have been registered, reflecting the threat human rights’ heritage sites are facing in the midst of a rising far right and their denialist discourses. This phenomenon is conceptualized as Memorialicidio , that is to say, destructive actions that seek to cause damage to those commemo…
Political science (18 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (15 works) · Art (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Memory, violence, and history (9 works) · Humanities (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Democracy (7 works)