Ephemeral Histories

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Politics under Salvador Allende used to be a battle fought in the streets. On a regular basis attempts to “ganar la calle” allowed a variety of urban residents to voice potent political affairs. Santiaguinos marched through the streets chanting slogans, seized public squares, and plastered city walls with graffiti, posters, and work of art. Urban art might only last a couple of hours or a day before being torn down or painted over, but such activism allowed a variety of city dwellers to take part in the national political arena. These popular political strategies were developed under democracy, only to be reimagined under the Pinochet dictatorship. Ephemeral Histories places urban conflict on the heart of Chilean history, exploring how marches and protests, posters and work of art, documentary film and street photography, became the basis of a new type of political change in Latin The usa in the late twentieth century.
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