Capacious and Territorial

The Left and the Course of the Social Revolt in Chile

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ID13085577
AuthorsEdward Murphy (0000-0001-8854-3736, Michigan State University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume11
Issue1
Pages121-155
Publication date2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2326-4462 • E-ISSN: 2326-4470
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/729381
OpenAlexW4399204629
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

This article develops how the 2019 social uprising in Chile linked anti-neoliberal and anti-authoritarian causes with those dedicated to social justice in race, environmental, indigenous, labor, gender, and sex relations. Protestors, moreover, articulated their visions for change in public squares and settings. In identifying these characteristics, the article asserts that the protest movement should be understood as being both capacious and territorial. These two characteristics, moreover, have long characterized the Chilean Left and made it well suited to take advantage of the present protest conjuncture. Yet if capaciousness and territoriality have granted vibrancy and possibility to the protest movement, they nonetheless have also presented it with significant challenges. This includes the fact that seizing territory, often including the destruction of property, helped to delegitimize the protests among right-wing sectors and broader publics. The article thus ultimately underscores the promise and shortcomings afforded by leftist forms of street protest

Course (navigation · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Left behind · Political science · Sociology · Engineering · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology

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