THE BODY IS THE MESSAGE. Towards a Cartography of Bodies in the Chile’s Protests of 18-O in Plaza de la Dignidad
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The violence in Chile’s present social crisis that started on October 18th 2019 has deeply scarred it’s citizens and, specifically, marked their bodies in various and violent ways. Beatings, torture, sexual abuse and also indiscriminated use of rubber bullets and shooting tear gas directly at people’s bodies and faces render a new cartography on the territory: the one about violented bodies by State security organs.
The following article explores from the urban studies perspective the corporal relationships of rioting and repression that happened on Plaza de la Dignidad (formerly Plaza Italia). Through a cartographic exercise, located experiences are deveiled: the emergence of new active bodies and the repercutions they render on the built environment. For this, we will review records around the riots, such as press, social media, photographies and testimonies which will open way towards the construction of a fenomenological cartography of Plaza de la Dignidad and its surroundings.