Imagining mobility at the “end of the world”
Chile’s geographical remoteness has largely defined the imaginaries people share about this Latin American country. Despite its historical image as finis terrae (‘the end of the world’), migrants from all corners found their way to these isolated peripheral lands. Thanks to new means of transport an...
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ftunivleuven:oai:lirias.kuleuven.be:123456789/314765 2023-05-15T16:53:42+02:00 Imagining mobility at the “end of the world” Salazar, Noel B. 2013 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/314765 https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2013.761211 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/314765/2//Imagining_Mobility_at_the_End_of_the_World-libre.pdf en eng Harwood Academic History and Anthropology vol:24 issue:2 pages:233-252 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/314765 0275-7206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2013.761211 1477-2612 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/314765/2//Imagining_Mobility_at_the_End_of_the_World-libre.pdf 285611;public imaginary mobility utopia culture Chile Article IT 285611;Article 2013 ftunivleuven https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2013.761211 2018-01-06T16:21:01Z Chile’s geographical remoteness has largely defined the imaginaries people share about this Latin American country. Despite its historical image as finis terrae (‘the end of the world’), migrants from all corners found their way to these isolated peripheral lands. 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 a combination of archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces how old (and originally foreign) imaginaries about Chile as an inaccessible island keep on influencing how contemporary Chileans participate in and frame their perceived exclusion from a plethora of new transnational mobilities, regardless of whether they have the means and freedom to cross imaginary boundaries and real borders or not. Although increasingly under outside pressure, the value of immobility remains at the core of the Chilean social imaginary, geo-politics and cultural life. status: published Article in Journal/Newspaper Inaccessible Island KU Leuven: Lirias Inaccessible Island ENVELOPE(166.350,166.350,-77.650,-77.650) History and Anthropology 24 2 233 252 |
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Chile’s geographical remoteness has largely defined the imaginaries people share about this Latin American country. Despite its historical image as finis terrae (‘the end of the world’), migrants from all corners found their way to these isolated peripheral lands. 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 a combination of archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces how old (and originally foreign) imaginaries about Chile as an inaccessible island keep on influencing how contemporary Chileans participate in and frame their perceived exclusion from a plethora of new transnational mobilities, regardless of whether they have the means and freedom to cross imaginary boundaries and real borders or not. Although increasingly under outside pressure, the value of immobility remains at the core of the Chilean social imaginary, geo-politics and cultural life. status: published |
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