The creolization of imperial reason: Chilean state racism in the war of the Pacific

Beckman, Ericka

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“…For many Peruvians and Bolivians, the war confirmed the supposed inferiority of their ‘nations’ and ‘races’ and, specifically, of their indigenous populations. On the centrality of race in understandings of the War of the Pacific, see Skuban (2007), esp. chapter 6, and Beckman (2009); see also McCray (2005) for an interpretation of the legacy of the War of the Pacific that focuses on Bolivia.…”

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Website of memory: The War of the Pacific (1879–84) in the global age of YouTube

Drinot

2011

Memory Studies

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This article is an examination of the comments attached to a video upload on YouTube of a Chilean television mini-series on the War of the Pacific (1879-84), one of Latin America's rare international wars, which pitted Chile against Peru and Bolivia, and which in many ways remains an open historical wound. Posted by anonymous commentators whose national subject positions as Chileans, Peruvians, Bolivians and Argentines are nevertheless discernable, the comments offer a compelling perspective on the ways in which digital artefacts such as YouTube enable the circulation and reproduction of collective memories in de-territorialized and transnational ways. However, the analysis of these comments suggests that the operation of memory in global virtual spaces does not guarantee or even necessarily enable the unmooring of memory from the national. In fact, the evidence presented here suggests that global spaces such as YouTube may contribute to the strengthening of national, and indeed, nationalist memories.

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Website of memory: The War of the Pacific (1879–84) in the global age of YouTube

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2011

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“…La victoria de Chile hizo hegemónica la retórica identitaria que fue empleada durante su campaña militar. Para justificar su avance sobre las naciones vecinas, el Estado argumentó la existencia de una supuesta diferencia racial entre chilenos/as, peruanos/as y bolivianos/as (Beckman 2009); asociándose los segundos a una identidad india entendida como sinónimo de incivilización y paganismo (McEvoy 2011: 15).…”

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“…Su objetivo era nacionalizar a la población de las áreas que pertenecían a Perú y Bolivia. Para el Estado chileno, esta nacionalización equivalía a un proceso de desindigenización (dado que se suponía que la diferencia entre chilenos, bolivianos y peruanos era racial, religiosa y étnica) (McEvoy 2011;Beckman 2009). A consecuencia de estas ideologías, los grupos indígenas del norte del país sufrieron una intensa violencia cultural e identitaria (Díaz 2006), cuyos efectos se sintieron fuertemente en toda la primera mitad del siglo XX.…”

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Configuraciones del patriarcado en la frontera Chileno-Peruana:

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El artículo indaga sobre el papel de la violencia de género y del militarismo en la conformación de los territorios de la Triple-frontera Andina (entre Chile, PerÚ y Bolivia) a partir de la Guerra del Pacífico (1879-1883), enfocando particularmente en las localidades de Arica (Chile) y Tacna (PerÚ). El estudio de caso se realizó a partir de una metodología de revisión de estado del arte de más de 70 textos historiográficos, antropológicos, politológicos y sociológicos. Buscamos, con este ejercicio, contribuir a desinvisibilizar la importancia de las mujeres peruanas como sujetos de construcción de estas fronteras.

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“…In the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), Chile defeated Peru and Bolivia and won its present Northern regions. During the war, Chileans articulated the difference with the two other countries in terms of climate, representing their climates, cultures and races as tropical, whereas the more temperate clime of Chile, by implicit contrast, produces greater sobriety and by extension, a higher level of modern civilization (Beckman 2009). This kind of reasoning was backed up by the argument that the word Chile actually goes back to the Quechua word chiri ("cold") or the Aymara word ch'iwi ("shadow").…”

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Imagining Mobility at the “End of the World”

Salazar¹

2013

History and Anthropology

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Chile's geographical remoteness has largely defined the imaginaries people share about this Latin American country. Despite its historical image as finis terrae ("the end of the world"), migrants from all corners found their way to these isolated peripheral lands. Thanks to new means of transport and communication, Chile nowadays is as exposed to the global circulation of people, objects and ideas as the rest of the world. Based on a combination of archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces how old (and originally foreign) imaginaries about Chile as an inaccessible island keep on influencing how contemporary Chileans participate in and frame their perceived exclusion from a plethora of new transnational mobilities, regardless of whether they have the means and freedom to cross imaginary boundaries and real borders or not. Although increasingly under outside pressure, the value of immobility remains at the core of the Chilean social imaginary, geo-politics and cultural life.Keywords: Imaginary; Mobility; Utopia; Culture; Chile After the creation of the world, the Bible states that "on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done". What the Bible does not mention, however, is that … a very disturbed angel came to tell God that something unexpected had happened: Small amounts of all elements used in the creation of the world had been left behind. What to do with those? … The Almighty … ordered the messenger to throw them all on one pile, and drop them at any extreme end of the world he had just created. The archangel discussed the matter with his colleagues … and they hastily flew out to inspect the world. After a quick exchange of ideas, they decided that the Andes, which formed a barrier along the South American continent, seemed to correspond, in some way, to the place the Lord had designated. They took what was left and dropped it behind the huge mountain chain. That was how, between the Andes Mountains and the infinity of the Pacific Ocean, a narrow strip of land arose. (Mende 1952, 170)

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The creolization of imperial reason: Chilean state racism in the war of the Pacific

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Website of memory: The War of the Pacific (1879–84) in the global age of YouTube

Website of memory: The War of the Pacific (1879–84) in the global age of YouTube

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Imagining Mobility at the “End of the World”

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