No water in the oasis: the Chilean Spring of 2019–2020

Somma, Nicolás M.; Bargsted, Matías; Pavlic, Rodolfo Disi; Medel, Rodrigo M.

doi:10.1080/14742837.2020.1727737

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“…Nevertheless, our findings cannot confirm that the change in moral sentiments will be permanent but does provide strong evidence that the social crisis had a "period effect" on feelings and worldviews. Not only cultural change triggered the outbursts (Somma et al, 2020), but narratives, frameworks, and worldviews of the general population are also affected by social movements. Thus, the protest movement could have provided the basis and tipping point for cultural and social change in the aftermath of a major disruption in contemporary Chilean history.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Jasper (2011), these moral shocks generate vertiginous feelings, lead to rethinking of moral principles, restructure worldviews, and activate underlying values. In addition, repression events following protests -as in the case of the protest movement in Chile (Somma et al, 2020)-could lead to even greater mobilization and ignite public indignation toward those responsible for the repression (Aytaç, Schiumerini, & Stokes, 2018;Hess & Martin, 2006;Porta & Diani, 2006). The focus of this study is the shockwave of the events of the first weeks of the social movement (for details of events during the data collection see Table 1S).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, how individuals change their emotions toward certain objects is a question of cultural change. Using an interrupted public opinion poll, we analyze the impact of the first weeks of the 2019 "Chilean spring" (Somma, Bargsted, Disi Pavlic, & Medel, 2020) on the country's sense of pride, economic development, and Chilean citizens themselves. Recent developments in cultural sociology suggest that cultural change is the exception rather than the norm (Kiley & Vaisey, 2020;Vaisey & Lizardo, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a shared feature of unsettled times and turning points (Abbott, 1997;Bail, 2012), social scientists and policymakers claim that the escalation of the events in Chile on October 18 was unexpected or "they did not see it coming" (e.g. Sanhueza, 2019;Somma et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The low levels of political identification, distrust in political parties, unfulfilled expectations, cultural change, and market-based inequalities, among others, have been suggested (e.g. Gonzalez & Morán, 2020;Somma et al, 2020). Despite citizens' demands for deep structural reforms (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Pride and Protest: Emotional response in the aftermath of the Chilean social outburst

Olivos¹,

Ayala²,

Leyton³

2020

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In recent months, Chile, like many other countries around the world, has undergone a wave of widespread street protests calling for structural changes and challenging the “Chilean miracle.” This study uses an interrupted public opinion poll to assess the effect on the moral sentiments of the general population of the first weeks of the Chilean social crisis that began in October 2019. Our findings suggest that emotions toward the country, official symbols, and economic development were negatively affected by the crisis. Protests signaled that not everything in the country was as thought, generating a moral shock that affected shared emotions about the country. However, at the same time, the specific reciprocal moral sentiments between fellow citizens were positively affected. Hence, the social crisis emerges as an opportunity to strengthen collective ties either by sharing sentiments toward who is responsible for the movement or between Chileans. In the aftermath of October 18, the effect on emotions could explain the massive scale and durability of the social movement.

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Chilean Massive Protests (2019)

Somma¹,

Donoso²

2022

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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Starting in the early 2000s, Chile experienced a series of protest waves spearheaded by high school and university students, environmentalists, feminist activists, indigenous groups, and workers among others. In contrast to previous years, the massive protests staged across the country in 2019 were not led by one social movement organization, but by thousands of seemingly unconnected ordinary citizens. Beginning on 18 October, protests by high school students, originally triggered by a rise in the cost of metro fares, evolved into the largest and most sustained protest wave the country had seen since the end of the dictatorship in 1989. Only the COVID‐19 pandemic, which hit Chile in mid‐March 2020, eased the pace of the “social uprising” ( estallido social ), as it was called in public discussions.

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