Remembering Pinochet: Chile's Contested Memories of the Dictatorship
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Date
2014-06
Authors
Johnson, Ahzha
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University of Oregon
Abstract
My thesis will examine how Chileans of different social, ethnic, and political
backgrounds remember the Pinochet dictatorship of 1973 to 1990 and how the events
and memories of that time period are contested. My paper will also examine secondary
memories by looking at how Chileans who were not alive during the Pinochet regime
remember the dictatorship. In order to gain a thorough understanding of how Chileans
remember the Pinochet regime and how Chile should move towards reconciliation I
conducted extensive interviews with a variety of Chileans about these topics and also
visited numerous memorial sights within Chile.
This study of Chilean memories is important because the dictatorship continues
to be the most controversial and contested period of time in Chile's recent history.
Collective memories are points of contestation and struggle between different social and
political groups, but are relevant and important for understanding the past and
contextualizing the events of the past with current social and political struggles.
Description
91 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of International Studies and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2014.
Keywords
Pinochet, Memory, Chile, Interviews, Reconciliation, Allenda