New mobilities, old imaginaries: An ethnographic report from “the end of the world”
Chile’s geographical remoteness – a long and narrow coastal strip between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Atacama Desert and the icebergs of Patagonia – has largely defined the imaginaries people share about this Latin American country. Despite its historical image as finis terrae (th...
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ftunivleuven:oai:lirias.kuleuven.be:123456789/265738 2023-05-15T16:53:42+02:00 New mobilities, old imaginaries: An ethnographic report from “the end of the world” Salazar, Noel B. 2010-04 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/265738 http://researcher.royalroads.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=1029 en eng Victoria, Canada Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas Pan-American Mobilities Network Conference edition:1 location:Royal Roads University Victoria, Canada date:8-10 April 2010 http://researcher.royalroads.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=1029 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/265738 Chile imaginaries migration mobility history anthropology Description (Metadata) only IMa conference_paper 2010 ftunivleuven 2014-03-04T09:35:50Z Chile’s geographical remoteness – a long and narrow coastal strip between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Atacama Desert and the icebergs of Patagonia – has largely defined the imaginaries people share about this Latin American country. Despite its historical image as finis terrae (the end of the world), many migrants found their way to these isolated peripheral lands (often as the last of imagined places), turning Chile into a mestizo society. Thanks to new means of transport and communication, Chile nowadays is as exposed to the global circulation of people, objects and ideas as the rest of the world. Based on recent ethnographic fieldwork, this paper traces how old imaginaries about Chile as an inaccessible island influence how contemporary Chileans participate in and frame their perceived exclusion from a plethora of new mobilities, regardless of whether they have the actual means and freedom to cross (imaginary and real) boundaries. status: published Conference Object Inaccessible Island KU Leuven: Lirias Inaccessible Island ENVELOPE(166.350,166.350,-77.650,-77.650) Pacific Patagonia |
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Chile’s geographical remoteness – a long and narrow coastal strip between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Atacama Desert and the icebergs of Patagonia – has largely defined the imaginaries people share about this Latin American country. Despite its historical image as finis terrae (the end of the world), many migrants found their way to these isolated peripheral lands (often as the last of imagined places), turning Chile into a mestizo society. Thanks to new means of transport and communication, Chile nowadays is as exposed to the global circulation of people, objects and ideas as the rest of the world. Based on recent ethnographic fieldwork, this paper traces how old imaginaries about Chile as an inaccessible island influence how contemporary Chileans participate in and frame their perceived exclusion from a plethora of new mobilities, regardless of whether they have the actual means and freedom to cross (imaginary and real) boundaries. status: published |
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New mobilities, old imaginaries: An ethnographic report from “the end of the world” |
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New mobilities, old imaginaries: An ethnographic report from “the end of the world” |
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Victoria, Canada |
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Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas Pan-American Mobilities Network Conference edition:1 location:Royal Roads University Victoria, Canada date:8-10 April 2010 http://researcher.royalroads.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=1029 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/265738 |
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