The Chilean Constitutional Process Narrated Through a Spiral
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12967507 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adriana Suárez Delucchi (0000-0003-2425-0939, University College London, corresponding author), Victoria Rivera Ugarte (Cardiff University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 969-991 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1911-4788 • E-ISSN: 1911-4788 |
| Publisher | Brock University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26522/ssj.v18i4.4367 |
| OpenAlex | W4405214092 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
Building on an intertwined spatiotemporal weaving of reckoning-repairing-reworlding, this article analyses the constitutional process experienced in Chile between 2019-2023. Inspired by the sociology of image as a methodological tool and following a narrative that takes the shape of a spiral, we examine a series of photographs representing different layers in this ongoing process. In October 2019, the largest demonstrations in Chile’s history sparked long-brewing demands for social and ecological transformation. The unsustainable pressure pushed political parties to call for a constitutional referendum where the population overwhelmingly voted to overturn the charter inherited from Augusto Pinochet’s regime, and so the process of drafting a new text began. Following the rejection of two drafts, the constitutional process is, for now, closed. Yet, we claim that embracing a failure narrative is not only futile, but misleading, and we propose to see these events in terms of their potential for conceptualising and enacting transformative futures. Drawing on decolonial, anti-colonial, and Indigenous scholarship, this essay focuses mainly on 2019’s uprising and the first constitutional process (2021-2022) examining demands for Indigenous transformation – and the possibilities this case offers resistance movements elsewhere and “elsewhen.”
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |