Everyday nationalism, alter-geopolitics of the flags and displacement of the national fabric during the social outbreak in Chile

The 2019-2020 revolts in Chile witnessed unprecedented protests in the country's democratic era, with citizens taking to the streets and social networks to express their demands, centered on the enormous inequalities and injustices inherent in the Chilean neoliberal state. For them, they made u...

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Autores principales: Benwell, Matthew, Nuñez, Andrés, Amigo, Catalina
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Departamento de Geografía 2023
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Everyday nationalism, alter-geopolitics of the flags and displacement of the national fabric during the social outbreak in Chile
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description The 2019-2020 revolts in Chile witnessed unprecedented protests in the country's democratic era, with citizens taking to the streets and social networks to express their demands, centered on the enormous inequalities and injustices inherent in the Chilean neoliberal state. For them, they made use of creative representations and the deployment of objects and symbols that came to signify and embody their struggle. Among them was the black flag, an appropriated version of the Chilean national flag. We use this provocative object to show how flags can be deployed by national citizenries to generate certain affective atmospheres of shame, mourning, and despair directed at the nation. In addition, we show how citizens actively participated in the design and making of flags that expressed their feelings towards the nation, a process that, at times, was cathartic, and also involved reimagining the Chilean nation. Scholars of everyday nationalism have emphasized the individual actions of national citizens, the materialities of objects such as national flags, and the atmospheres that can emanate from them, but all such research has paid less attention to the collective and subversive interventions of citizens attempting to (re)define and (re)think the nation. In contrast, alter-geopolitics (Koopman, 2011) has explicitly encouraged political geographers to pay attention to grassroots interventions that bring bodies together to resist state (in)security and construct nonviolent alternative securities. Thus, we argue that everyday nationalism's sensitivity to agency, bodies (both human and nonhuman), and affective national atmospheres can be brought into productive dialogue with alter-geopolitics to underscore the political potentialities of certain materialities that can be collectively engaged by citizenries.
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spelling I10-R374-article-400312023-01-23T04:57:19Z Everyday nationalism, alter-geopolitics of the flags and displacement of the national fabric during the social outbreak in Chile Nacionalismo cotidiano, alter-geopolítica de las banderas y desplazamiento del tejido nacional durante el estallido social en Chile Benwell, Matthew Nuñez, Andrés Amigo, Catalina The 2019-2020 revolts in Chile witnessed unprecedented protests in the country's democratic era, with citizens taking to the streets and social networks to express their demands, centered on the enormous inequalities and injustices inherent in the Chilean neoliberal state. For them, they made use of creative representations and the deployment of objects and symbols that came to signify and embody their struggle. Among them was the black flag, an appropriated version of the Chilean national flag. We use this provocative object to show how flags can be deployed by national citizenries to generate certain affective atmospheres of shame, mourning, and despair directed at the nation. In addition, we show how citizens actively participated in the design and making of flags that expressed their feelings towards the nation, a process that, at times, was cathartic, and also involved reimagining the Chilean nation. Scholars of everyday nationalism have emphasized the individual actions of national citizens, the materialities of objects such as national flags, and the atmospheres that can emanate from them, but all such research has paid less attention to the collective and subversive interventions of citizens attempting to (re)define and (re)think the nation. In contrast, alter-geopolitics (Koopman, 2011) has explicitly encouraged political geographers to pay attention to grassroots interventions that bring bodies together to resist state (in)security and construct nonviolent alternative securities. Thus, we argue that everyday nationalism's sensitivity to agency, bodies (both human and nonhuman), and affective national atmospheres can be brought into productive dialogue with alter-geopolitics to underscore the political potentialities of certain materialities that can be collectively engaged by citizenries. Las revueltas en Chile de 2019-2020 fueron testigos de protestas sin precedentes en la era democrática del país, con ciudadanos que se volcaron a las calles y a las redes sociales para expresar sus demandas, centradas en las enormes desigualdades e injusticias inherentes al Estado neoliberal chileno. Para ellos, se valieron de representaciones creativas y el despliegue de objetos y símbolos que llegaron a significar y encarnar su lucha. Entre ellos se encontraba la bandera negra, una versión apropiada de la bandera nacional chilena. Utilizamos este objeto provocador para mostrar cómo las banderas pueden ser desplegadas por las ciudadanías nacionales para generar ciertas atmósferas afectivas de vergüenza, luto y desesperación dirigidas a la nación. Además, mostramos cómo los ciudadanos participaron activamente en el diseño y la confección de banderas que expresaban sus sentimientos hacia la nación, un proceso que, en ocasiones, fue catártico, y que también implicó reimaginar la nación chilena. Los estudiosos del nacionalismo cotidiano han hecho hincapié en las acciones individuales de los ciudadanos nacionales, las materialidades de objetos como las banderas nacionales y las atmósferas que pueden emanar de ellas, pero toda esa investigación ha prestado menos atención a las intervenciones colectivas y subversivas de los ciudadanos que intentan (re)definir y (re)pensar la nación. Por el contrario, la alter geopolítica (Koopman, 2011) ha animado explícitamente a los geógrafos políticos a prestar atención a las intervenciones de base que reúnen a los cuerpos para resistir la (in)seguridad del Estado y construir seguridades alternativas no violentas. Por lo tanto, sostenemos que la sensibilidad del nacionalismo cotidiano hacia la agencia, los cuerpos (tanto humanos como no humanos) y las atmósferas nacionales afectivas puede ser llevada a un diálogo productivo con la alter-geopolítica, para subrayar las potencialidades políticas de ciertas materialidades que pueden ser comprometidas colectivamente por las ciudadanías. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Departamento de Geografía 2023-01-23 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Doble evaluación por pares y a doble ciegas application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cardi/article/view/40031 Cardinalis; No. 19 (2022): Revista Cardinalis. Año X Núm.19 2do Semestre 2022. ; 82-115 Cardinalis; Núm. 19 (2022): Revista Cardinalis. Año X Núm.19 2do Semestre 2022. ; 82-115 Cardinalis; n. 19 (2022): Revista Cardinalis. Año X Núm.19 2do Semestre 2022. ; 82-115 2346-8734 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cardi/article/view/40031/40340 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

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