6,115
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
2 collections
    1
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      The politics of the street: Street art, public writing and the history of political contest in Chile

      Radical Americas
      UCL Press

      Read this article at

          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          This commentary focuses on the politics of public space in democracy and dictatorship. It delves into what Peter Winn calls the revolution ‘from below’ from the perspective of urban conflict, suggesting a political history that attends to urban and visual culture as a crucial arena of political practice. It suggests that the often-conflictive battle over public spaces was, and continues to be, a mechanism by which an unprecedented range of citizens entered into an ongoing debate over the boundaries of citizenship, practice, politics and that this practice was adapted, transformed and reimagined over the last five decades. The struggle over streets and walls continues to be central to Chilean political history, and urban space remains a field of ongoing contest and debate: the estallido of social unrest in contemporary Chile connected a new generation of activists to this longer history of creative politics of protest and protest art and gave them the opportunity to articulate new forms of intersectional political thought in public space, even in the face of state-sponsored violence. Studying these forms of unrest reveals that theirs is an incisive, intersectional critique of the limits of the ‘transition to democracy’, of neoliberal democracies and of the legacies of dictatorship.

          Related collections

          Most cited references23

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          Cities and Citizenship

            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            On Political Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Book: not found

              Insurgent citizenship: Disjunctions of democracy and modernity in Brazil

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Journal
                Radical Americas
                UCL Press
                2399-4606
                June 01 2021
                June 01 2021
                : 6
                : 1
                Article
                10.14324/111.444.ra.2021.v6.1.003
                f375c648-1905-4c7b-ba6c-8f3652426096
                © 2021

                https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

                History

                Comments

                Comment on this article