anno di pubblicazione 2022
pp. 224
ISBN cartaceo 9791255000105
ISBN pdf 9791255000112
It is a warm, austral spring Monday in the Capital of Chile. Metro stations are tingling with students and workers ready to encapsulate themselves in underground trains to commute as usual. The ticket fee has just been raised by 30 pesos. A group of young people decide to protest evading the fare. Placing their hands on the turnstile columns, one by one, they leap over the metal bar. This small gesture of disobedience spreads and intensifies with tremendous speed. On October 18, 2019, the government orders to close the entire Santiago subway. It is the day designated as the incipit of the estallido social, the Chilean social outbreak. This modest pretext is the fuse that set off a far-reaching revolt, so strong that it led the country to start a new constitutional process.
The author, a direct witness to the events, recounts what unfolds before her eyes through a hybrid genre of writing: the narrative essay. Trying to penetrate the epistemic and emotional process that challenges the status quo and open up the possible, she tells and analyzes the scuffles in the streets and the inner turmoil of those who watch the wavering of known reality.
Ultimately, this book is about that angry and happy, chaotic and generative time of crisis in a legal-political order. A phase that is as promising as it is often disappointing.
Clelia Bartoli, professor in the Law Department at the University of Palermo, where she teaches philosophy and sociology of law, politics of migration and human rights. She has conducted several researches about marginality, racism, spatial justice and processes of social transformation, adopting a participatory, ethnographic and highly experimental approach.
Among her books: Aquí se funda un país. Viaggio nella rivolta del Cile (2021); Inchiesta a Ballarò. Il diritto visto dal margine (2019); Legal clinics in Europe. For a commitment of higher education in social justice (2016); Razzisti per legge. L’Italia che discrimina (2012); La teoria della subalternità e il caso dei dalit in India (2008).
Foreword to the Italian edition
Sergio Grez Toso
Introduction
An Overview
Acknowledgements
Part One 1
1. For 30 pesos
2. Welcomed and enlisted
3. A pervading protest
4. ¡Renuncia Piñera!
5. At the supermarket: «Pay in installments?»
6. No + AFP
7. Apiaries with a pool
8. Marching with Pikachu
9. ¿El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido?
10. Plaza de la Dignidad, or naming things
11. A matter of taste
12. Eyes
13. The paco caste
14. Stoplight-men
15. Under the shadow of which flags?
16. We are all Mapuche
17. No leaders, thousands of fires
18. Heirs of rage
19. Prior to the Primera línea
20. The fearless generation
21. Superheroes
22. Culture in the field
23. Y la culpa no era mía
24. Abuelita Elena and the minority influence
25. Decolonizing gender
26. Even shamans do politics
27. From sloth to wrath
28. The inner revolution
29. Chile s’è scetato
30. Neighborhood councils vs. national government
31. A massive open-air school of civic education
32. An illegitimate constitution
33. Liberalism and illiberty
34. Few rights for the many, many rights for the few
Part Two
35. Something is missing
36. A revolt, not a revolution
37. Constituted and constituent power: rupture and continuity
38. Leopards
39. Democracy of quality
40. The solution lies in the problem
41. Recoleta: an anomaly
42. Classes and classes
43. The astonishment of the elite
44. Broadening the possible
45. The “disordinary”
46. Discontent is not enough to revolt
47. The joys of synchronicity and public happiness
48. Time and revolution
Part Three
49. From the quarantine to the plebiscite
50. A long and hard lockdown
51. Famine and flames
52. In a disaster, who profits?
53. Cyberevolt
54. Truckers and Mapuche
55. Return to the plaza
56. The people have voted
57. With feet on the ground
58. The statue of discord
59. Aspiring constituent parents
60. Vaccination and election campaigns
61. The puzzling results of the mega-elections
62. Women voters and voted
63. The silence of the helpless
64. Pokémon evolutions
65. Street constituent
66. Political equinox
67. An ending-in-progress
Afterword
Bibliography