Abstract
dc:description.abstractDeemed "The Chilean Miracle," President Pinochet under a campaign of violence and terror effectively transitioned the socialist Chilean economy to one of South America's most prosperous capitalist economies. Most recently, Chilean entrepreneur, SebastÃan Piñera, won the country's executive office on a campaign of neoliberal expansion in hopes of economic growth and the elimination of poverty. If this election is an indication of Chile's acceptance of aggressive neoliberal policies, then how has the memory of neoliberalism become detached from its violent beginning? Has Pinochet's legacy been (re)constructed in Chilean collective memory? This paper aims to explore this question in two ways. First, it examines ideological formations in Chilean political rhetoric that serve to conceal and transform political memory through discursive structures. Second, it investigates how political rhetoric transformed state violence through a re-narrativization of neoliberalism, which effectively detached neoliberalism from its violent initiation and (re)constructed it as a means of reconciliation and recovery. The findings of this paper suggest that Chilean memory has been (re)constructed for political and economic purposes, which conceal reality and deny alterity.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Public and International Affairs
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Public and International Affairs
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Public and International Affairs
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Ickes, Caroline Nicole
- Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Luke, Timothy W.
- Thadhani, Rupa G.
- Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Zanotti, Laura
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-04252011-205951
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/42241