Noche y Niebla: Neoliberalismo, memoria y trauma en el Chile postautoritario

Abstract

Using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this volume analyses Chilean society in the post-authoritarian era focusing on three main areas: firstly, the political obstacles and social challenges towards dealing with the transition from authoritarianism to democracy. Secondly, the role of the neoliberal rationale and the hegemony of a ‘globalised’ society in the process of overcoming and defining collective memory. The last section of the volume focuses on the overarching pervasiveness of collective trauma through the sealing of recent historical past through the imposition of policies of reconciliation, and the establishment of an individualised society driven by competition and a co-opted idea of ‘success’.