Michael Matthews) Department of History & Geography and International & Global Studies Program “POWER FOR THE PEOPLE” OR AN “ETERNAL QUEST FOR POWER?”: RACE, CLASS, AND DEMOCRACY IN HUGO CHÁVEZ’S VENEZUELA* In so doing, it contends that through the development of student organizations and protests, university students successfully employed oppositional language to create a collective memory that contested the regime’s official narrative. It offers insights into the organization of student protest in an authoritarian context and the role of competing narratives in forming social memory. Stern’s Battling for the Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973-1988. It also utilizes current literature about memory, narrative, and the actors in the fight to re-democratize Chile such as Steve J. This study explores how students contested the junta’s official narrative and shaped Chileans’ collective memory and national identity by examining newspaper articles from the Fortín Mapocho (1983-86), internal University of Chile student federation (FECH) memos, and university student interviews. It specifically seeks to answer the following questions: how did Chilean university students utilize protest to contest the discourse and narrative formed by the Chilean military junta? How did this protest spur greater society into creating an opposing narrative that shaped the collective memory of Chileans? It analyzes the organizational structures and events used by student leaders and participants to argue that they built a successful movement against the military junta central to the larger national movement that peacefully voted Pinochet out of power in 1989.
This project examines how university students and the military junta created conflicting narratives and memories from 1983 to 1986 about the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
MAKING AND UNMAKING MEMORY: UNIVERSITY STUDENT PROTEST IN PINOCHET’S CHILE
* = beginning in 2021, an asterisk symbolizes a presentation that is self-identified as a project related to topics about diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism
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