Resumen

MENDEZ-CARO, Leyla; CORTES, Claudio; WORMALD, Carlos  y  HIRSCH, Evelyn. ANIMITAS IN ANTOFAGASTA-CHILE: SUBVERSIONS OF NEOLIBERALIZED SPACE/TIME. Revista Chakiñan [online]. 2018, n.5, pp.73-89. ISSN 2550-6722.

The objective of this article was to analyze the symbols of a popular cenotaph, called animita (roadside shrines), in order to decode the underlying "hegemonic culture" within the framework of a neoliberal capitalist society in a city in northern Chile, based on an extractivist economy. Using a qualitative method, a registry and photographic mapping of 88 animitas from Antofagasta was carried out, along with 27 semi-structured interviews carried out with men and women between 18 and 60 years old, from different socioeconomic groups, devotees and non-devotees of these. Photographs and interviews were addressed from Critical Discourse Analysis. The main findings warn of a tension between the production of neoliberal subjectivities and the subversion of these through other citizenships. The animitas become a symbolic medium, both structured and structuring that reproduces a symbolic neoliberal capitalist order and, at the same time, allows the production of another symbolic order of resistance to it.

Palabras clave : popular culture; death; neoliberalism; resistance; symbols.

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