

Means of maintaining political control of the country and its citizenry. The Chilean military Junta used torture and disappearance as a Public manifestations social strife were brought to an abrupt end by a violent The late 1960s and early 70s was a period of intense civil unrest in Chile.

The Junta's violence generated further discourses that doubled back Violence as a means to bring external reality into correspondence with its The Junta's version of reality, was radically different from the experienced reality of the subject population. The Junta and the resulting social reality was then militarily imposed on the The civil conflict that was literallyĭeconstructing Chilean's lived realities was reconfigured on a mythic plane by President Salvador Allende's government was not halted by the Junta that Ideological elements that constituted Chilean social reality that occurred during It is my contention that the erosion of the multiple material and Is, in fact, the absence of social reality itself. TheĪbsence of a broad consensus about the constituent elements of social reality Strife intensifies, there is less shared representational and material space. Manifestations of civil society, in essence making it subjectively unreal. Political conflict dismantles, on material and representational planes, the overt To trace these connections, I examine the manner in which open Social reality is a complex issue however, the careful examination of a society inĬrisis will illuminate some of the body's elemental connections with the broader The human body's role in the creation and maintenance of modern Investigate came about."1 This thesis is one attempt to take that admonition Understand how the subsequent human rights violations we were charged to The Chilean Commission for Truth and Reconciliation noted that, "it isĪbsolutely essential that we understand the crisis of 1973.in order to
