| ID | 133589 |
| Title Proper | Neoliberal transitions |
| Other Title Information | the Santiago general cemetery and the affective economies of counter-revolution |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Spira, Tamara Lea |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Anchored in the Santiago General Cemetery, this essay analyses the management of revolutionary memory under neoliberalism. Juxtaposing the gravesites of Salvador Allende and Víctor Jara, I theorise the gendered and racialised processes through which collective dreams for justice - and even radical politics themselves - come to be co-opted under neoliberal capitalism. If in Jara's grave we see the state performing the part of the hyper-masculine disciplinarian father, I argue, in Allende's grave we witness the state as the begrudgingly accepting father, ready to take in the repentant children back into the nation, in exchange for obedience. Finally, I turn to alternative memorialisation practices performed by the nation's discontents, and namely ongoing struggles for collective self-determination and decolonisation. Ultimately, I situate critiques of neoliberalism in Chile in dialogue with intersectional queer and transnational feminist scholarship on the seductive logics of neoliberalism - and emergent forms of justice that appear just beyond its purview. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol.21, No.4; Aug.2014: p.344-363 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol.21, No.4; Aug.2014: p.344-363 |
| Key Words | Counter ; Revolution ; Memory ; Affective Economies ; Violence ; Justice ; Chile ; Civil War ; Neoliberalism ; Transnational Feminist ; Revolutionary Memory ; Santiago Cemetery |