Barricades as ephemeral places: The case of the social mobilizations in Aysen (2012) and Chiloe (2016)
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Barricades are actions that social movements carry out to make their demands visible and express social discomfort. When barricades last longer than days or weeks, they become places in which mobilized people interact and debate. Based on secondary sources as well as discourse analysis of a set of 56 semi-structured interviews, this article examines, through a qualitative approach, the meaning that barricades had for those who participated in the social movements of Aysén (2012) and Chiloé (2016), located in southern Chile. In both cases, barricades gathered people from different backgrounds, who remained in these sites for weeks, establishing a specific, different community life with its own rhythms and temporalities. In so doing, barricades became places woven through with significant cultural elements from those territories (the campfire, the food, the mate), promoting socialization and debates among people of different origins and social classes. Debates and learning experiences which were key for social movements and their action also took place there. These barricade sites fostered social integration, positively affecting the lives of their participants and local communities, thus becoming true ephemeral places.
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