The Social Outburst and Political Representation in Chile

This is the first book in English to present a comprehensive analysis of the October 2019 social outbreak in Chile and its consequences for the country's political system. For almost 30 years (1990-2019), Chile was recognized as a model of political and economic stability in Latin America, but the 2019 protests put into question the whole structure of representation based on programmatic political parties. This contributed volume analyzes the causes of the social outbreak by examining the interaction between political parties and social movements in Chile since 2000, establishing bridges between the sociology of social movements and the political science of parties and forms of traditional political representation.

The book is organized in three parts. The first part analyzes the collapse of the political party system in Chile. The second part shows how social movements introduced innovative forms of political mobilization that challenged the traditional forms of political representation. Finally, the third part presents case studies focusing on specific social movements and their contributions to the renewal of political representation in Chile.

The Social Outburst and Political Representation in Chile will be a valuable resource for sociologists, political scientists and other social scientists interested in understanding the challenges posed to political parties and institutions by social movements formed by citizens who no longer see themselves represented by the traditional forms political participation.

Auteur
Bernardo Navarrete Yánez is Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Chile. He has been Visiting Scholar in Political Science at the Center For Latin American Studies at Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Government and Public Administration from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has published five books on parties, public policy, and local government. Eighteen book chapters from 2010 to date, on party, public policy, immigration and local government issues and seventeen articles in indexed journals, under the same themes. His latest publications are: (2020) Book editor Hacia la gobernanza del refugio y el asilo en Chile. Ril Editores and (2019) La inmigración en la agenda de seguridad en Chile. Las nuevas amenazas en los libros de la defensa nacional. Estudios Internacionales N° 193 pp. 3763. (2019)

Victor Tricot is lecturer of Political Science at the University of Girona, Catalonia, Spain, and Academic Director for SIT Study Abroad, Spain: Policy, Law, and Regional Autonomy in Europe. He holds a PhD in Contemporary Political Processes and a Master in Latin American Studies, both from the University of Salamanca, Spain. His research and writing have been mainly about social movements in Latin America and indigenous movements, particularly the Mapuche movement in Chile and Argentina. His research findings have been published in different academic and non-academic journals.

Contenu

1.Introduction: Social outbreak and political representation in Latin America.- 2.Party system crisis: The exhaustion of Chile's spine.- 3.Opportunities and constraints of a stagnate system. A time of representation crisis or political innovation?.- 4.Political parties and social movements in post-transition Chile: between mistrust and reconfiguration.- 5.Please mind the gap. Autonomization and Street Politics.- 6.Indigenous movements in Chile: towards self-determination or recognition?.- 7.Collective action and political strategy of the university movement: from the struggle for education to the social outbreak in Chile.- 8.Feminist movements and the social outburst in chile: The time of women?.- 9.The Decade of Contentious Politics: the Rise of Social Movements around Water in Post-Transitional Chile.- 10.From the dance of those left out to a new constitution: Channeling the Chilean social unrest.- 11.Conclusion: "We didn't see it coming": Chile's 2019 social outburst.