Narrating the Chilean Social Revolt through and against Stigma

The Case of Two Older Women from a Stigmatized Neighborhood

Bibliographic Data

ID7906012
AuthorsValentina Álvarez-López (0000-0003-2963-208X, Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación), María-Luisa Méndez (0000-0002-3493-1511, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, corresponding author), Nicolás Angelcos (0000-0002-8044-0895, University of Chile), Alejandra Rasse (0000-0003-0625-8021, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Year2024
Volume59
Issue1
Pages55-71
Publication date2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/lar.2023.37
OpenAlexW4385810058
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited43

This article explores the workings of social and territorial stigma among residents of an stigmatized neighborhood in Santiago de Chile in the context of nationwide conflict. By attending to the narratives of social organizers, it shows how stigma framed the narratives of the Chilean revolt of October 2019 produced by two female organizers older than fifty years without tertiary education. It argues that, for those with less educational and political resources, stigma can help think through a social conflict by translating broader political issues into everyday life experiences and can both constrain and enable different forms of engagement in the revolt. The narratives were obtained by ethnographic interviews carried out in a broader project of the unfolding of the unrest in Santiago’s peripheries between November 2019 and July 2020

Art · Context (archaeology) · Ethnography · Geography · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stigma (botany) · Unrest · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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