Meeting on Memories, Human Rights and Social Uprisings in Chile
The third and final meeting of the Social dialogues on Memories, Human Rights and Social Uprisings which opened the dialogue initiated in the two previous meetings to other Latin American countries.
The first session of the series took place at the Ex-Prison Cultural Center in Valparaíso, where participants discussed their experiences of the 2019 uprising in various Chilean cities. The second session was held in the Los Ríos Region, at the Austral University and the Neltume Museum of Memory. This gathering provided insight into how the uprising was experienced in rural areas where memories of past struggles are deeply ingrained, such as those related to the Panguipulli Forestry and Timber Complex and the development of the Toqui Lautaro guerrilla group, as well as territorial, environmental, and human rights struggles of the Mapuche people.
The objective of the Social Dialogues cycle on Memories, Human Rights and Social Uprisings has been to reflect on the commemorative cycle 50, 50, 40 + 4, considering that events such as the coups in Chile and Uruguay, as well as the return to democracy in Argentina and the uprisings in Ecuador, Chile, Colombia and Peru in 2019 cannot be thought of separately and require a global and in-depth analysis that allows us to account for their similarities, particularities and articulations.
Likewise, these three meetings brought together academics, representatives of social movements and actors linked to public policy from various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to address these commemorations from the perspective of contemporary socio-political processes, the disputes over memory and its political uses in the present, and the ways to contribute to the understanding of these processes and their reinterpretation in terms of action for emancipatory social forces.
The third meeting brought together a presentation of work by Social Psychology students from the University of Chile in poster format, as well as two debate panels and a closing conference by Professor Franck Gaudichaud.
The first panel discussion focused on recent uprisings in Latin America and included the participation of Homero Quiroz from Peru, Erika Pardo from Colombia, Rene Unda from Ecuador, and Isabel Piper from Chile.
The discussion then focused on experiences of resistance in Latin America, with interventions from Matías Boch, from the Dominican Republic, and Nastassja Mancilla from Chile:
The closing conference by Prof. Gaudichaud revisited the main lines of thought put forward by the panelists present, who focused on the different experiences of uprisings in their countries, describing their main characteristics, the role of memory in these events, and the role of state political violence and citizen-popular resistance.
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