The Chilean Constitutional Convention
An Exercise for the Pluriverse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6146863 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adriana Suárez Delucchi (0000-0003-2425-0939, Universidad Católica de Temuco, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2634-3797 • E-ISSN: 2634-3797 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isagsq/ksae071 |
| OpenAlex | W4404134917 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 5 |
Neoliberal principles were codified in a constitution and implemented during a right-wing military dictatorship (1973–1990) in Chile producing important social inequalities, as well as cultural and ecological destruction. Resistance against the arrangements inherited from that period and deepened thereafter has been paramount to recent politics. In October 2019, considerable street protests were institutionally channeled into a constitutional process where a referendum was mandated to replace the dictatorship’s constitution. There were two attempts to write a new charter: one under a Constitutional Convention that took a decolonial character, and a second one dominated by a far-right council. Drawing on Loughlin’s “constitutional imagination,” the article poses that the Convention was a world-making exercise where social movements, independent candidates, Indigenous representatives, and their allies engaged in efforts for designing a pluriverse where many worlds could fit. I claim the Convention was a space where utopia and ideology met allowing for different worlds to work together for the first time in the political arena creating an incipient intercultural politics. As a text with world-making capacity, the draft from the Convention, although rejected in 2022, materializes a process from which stronger intersectional solidarity among feminist, Indigenous, and ecological movements should be forged
Convention · Political science · Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Law
The law and political economy of highly detailed constitutional regulations
Plurinationality as an empty signifier in the Chilean constitutional convention of 2021–2022
The Citizen Initiative in Chile’s constitution-making (2021–2023)
The Chilean Constitutional Process Narrated Through a Spiral
The secular paradox in the “world’s most progressive” constitution
World Ordering from the Margins
When Ideology Trumps Deliberation
| Citations per year | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |