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A photographer and an anthropologist find themselves at the epicenter of the social outbreak on the streets of Santiago de Chile in October 2019. As protesters themselves, they observe, record, and scrutinize the maelstrom of events unfolding during the uprising. Through visual and ethnographic recording, this article develops some interpretative keys to the five months of social demonstrations that began on October 18 as a result of the increase in transport fares. By recording empirical evidence where the protest was taking place, the text and the images dialogue to provide an account of the meaning of a) the rubble in the city; b) the bodies in the performative gesture of protest; and c) the insurgent monuments. It is argued that the anger and discontent of decades of excess and abuse of the neoliberal system are expressed in the disorder and destruction of public space, bodies, and monuments. This excess is present in the memory of the demonstrators and in every aspect of social and daily life in Chile. It is concluded that the future is still open and a glimmer of hope is emerging in the rewriting of a new Chilean constitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present work was to identify the role played by the social class in the participation or non-participation of people in protest actions, in the context of the socio-environmental mobilizations that took place in 2016 on Chiloé Island, in the southern Chile. A quantitative cross-sectional study was carried out, by applying a survey to a random sample of 400 people over the age of 18, from the two main cities of the island. A structural equations model was tested that included variables traditionally identified by social psychology as predictors of participation, in addition to the social class of individuals, variable that is not usually included in social psychology studies in this field. The results show that the proposed model presented an adequate fit and the social class is an important predictor of participation in collective action, although in the opposite direction to that hypothesized. That is, it was the upper and middle class people who tended to participate more in the protests. The implications of these results are discussed in the context of social-environmental movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The mobilization and social protest processes carried out by youth and student movements in Chile today must be understood in the context of a change in the repertoires of mobilization as well as in the context of a wider mobilization cycle. Hence, synchronic characterization should be complemented with a diachronic look at the mobilizing practices of young people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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