A Chilean artist shaped by the nightmare of Pinochet subverts colonial time. Review: Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished, Florencia San Martín, 2026, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
Radical remembrance
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Category: Chile
Domestic dissidence
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Melodies of resistance
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Music was a tool of survival for victims of Chile’s dictatorship. Review: Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile, Katia Chornik, 2025, Oxford University Press
Categories: Chile
Chile’s nightmare returns
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Kast’s election open the country’s sores. Review: Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile, Natascha Scott-Stokes, 2024, University of New Mexico Press
Categories: Chile
The noise of liberation
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Settler colonialism oppresses every aspect of Mapuche life—including sound. Review: Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference, Luis E Cárcamo-Huechante, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Chile
Khaki democrats
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Hard as it is to swallow, militaries have at times been the midwives of democracy. Review: The Birth of Democracy in South America, Raúl L Madrid, 2025, Cambridge University Press
Flight of fancy
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Soldiers of the sub-empire
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Brazil’s role in Pinochet’s coup has disturbing modern echoes. Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and The South American Cold War, Mila Burns, 2025, University Of North Carolina Press
Categories: Brazil, Chile, North America, South America, United States
Metaphors of resistance
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Invisible debates
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Latin American knowledge production needs to be seen. Latin America in Debate: Indigeneity, Development, Dependency, Populism, Maristella Svampa, translated by Alejandro Reyes, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, South America