Abstract

OLIVARI VARGAS, Alicia; BADILLA RAJEVIC, Manuela  and  REYES ANDREANI, María José. Peripheral commemorations in segregated neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile: Sociopolitical effects on the construction of community. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2021, vol.31, n.1, pp.211-222.  Epub June 15, 2021. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v31n1.87679.

This article analyzes the social and political effects of memory production in building community and strenghtegning identity in peripheral and segregated neighborhoods of Santiago. From a qualitative study that considers the analysis of 55 interviews with young people that live in some of these territories and participant observation of commemorative activities of the coup d'état carried out on September 11, we examine different repertoires to commemorate Chile's recent past through which these young people interact and produce the space. On the one hand, these repertoires of remembering generate spaces for participation, strengthening the sense of territorial belonging, and on the other, trigger conflicts towards the interior and exterior of these neighborhoods that can reproduce experiences of segregation. The article concludes by illustrating the complexity of the construction of communities in these historically segregated territories.

Keywords : Collective memory; dictatorship; community; city.

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