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Branding the Chilean nation : socio-cultural change, national identity and international image
This study is focused on Chile’s modernization process under the neo-liberal sign, from the 1973 coup to 2010, year of the Bicentennial (marking 200 year independence from Spain). It especially explores three main topics: the country’s changing identity as some of its traditional elements have tended to disappear while new ones have entered the scene; its socio-cultural change, including a mentality shift as well as increased social mobility; and Chile’s nation-branding efforts as its international standing started changing in the last decades. These topics allow for a multidisciplinary analysis, especially from the perspectives offered by history, sociology, and political science. These academic disciplines contribute to the improved description and understanding of what has happened in this country in the last four decades. The aforementioned three strands interact to the point of making it difficult to differentiate clearly between identity...
Show moreThis study is focused on Chile’s modernization process under the neo-liberal sign, from the 1973 coup to 2010, year of the Bicentennial (marking 200 year independence from Spain). It especially explores three main topics: the country’s changing identity as some of its traditional elements have tended to disappear while new ones have entered the scene; its socio-cultural change, including a mentality shift as well as increased social mobility; and Chile’s nation-branding efforts as its international standing started changing in the last decades. These topics allow for a multidisciplinary analysis, especially from the perspectives offered by history, sociology, and political science. These academic disciplines contribute to the improved description and understanding of what has happened in this country in the last four decades. The aforementioned three strands interact to the point of making it difficult to differentiate clearly between identity, national image and socio-cultural change. The fact that they interplay and intertwine bespeaks the existence of a living nation in which these and other realities interact to the point of identification. In fact, the differentiation between the Chilean self-image and Chilean identity or between identity and cultural changes of late is subtle and thus not easy to portray separately. Finally, this triple axis allows for a study of fairly permanent factors in Chile’s existence as well as other less stable aspects. Thus, although the country has undergone a kind of revolution, Chile retains many of its original characteristics: it is possible to find in it characteristics forged from the beginning of its nation-building process, traits that have lasted and are also present in Bicentennial Chile
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- Prieto Larraín, M.C.
- Supervisor
- Silva, P.
- Qualification
- Doctor (dr.)
- Awarding Institution
- Institute for History , Faculty of Humanities , Leiden University
- Date
- 2011-11-24
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- LEI Universiteit Leiden