Transient Political Infrastructures: Toward an Atlas of the Chilean Uprising

Jerrems, Ari; Mardones, Patricio Landaeta; Jiménez, Javiera Carmona

doi:10.1080/2373566x.2022.2115936

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“…Second, the concept of aftermath can be used to describe the material reality of particular practices, projects or infrastructure – the aftermath is what is left behind after a project’s apparent demise. Scholarship illuminating aftermaths in this way often interrogates remains of shattered dreams and aspirations through infrastructural ruins (Aitken, 2020; Dawney, 2021; Jerrems et al, 2022; Lisle and Johnson, 2018) or eroding and decaying materials left behind (Finiguerra, 2023; Soto, 2018). In doing so, the concept of aftermath captures how past projects or practices continue to structure the present for those living in them.…”

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The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism

Lemay-Hébert,

Jerrems

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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This article offers a new perspective on the failed states agenda, and the reconfiguration of colonial discourse buttressing it, by theorising its afterlives. The concept of afterlives has mostly been discussed as a metaphor or in passing in the IR literature. Drawing from the post- and decolonial literature, we propose to define the concept simultaneously as echoes and aftermaths of the past. This conceptualisation of afterlives aims to contribute to the study of the persistence of colonial forms beyond notions of continuity and rupture. We develop the concept of afterlives through a discussion of the failed states agenda and its iterations. We discuss four specific iterations of the agenda: the genesis of the agenda in the decolonisation period; the consolidation of the agenda during the early 1990s; the crisis of the agenda and the rise of the resilience discussion; and finally the rise of the fragile city agenda as one of the afterlives of the failed states agenda. To illustrate our argument, we discuss two specific ‘fragments’ through which we can effectively grasp the echoes and aftermaths of coloniality: the pathologisation of fragile states and cities, operated through various twin figures (civilised/barbaric; strong/dysfunctional; resilient/vulnerable) and their practical repercussions; and the visualisation, mapping and colour-coding of fragile states and cities, exemplifying the durability and contradictions of the failed states agenda.

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Section: Afterlives: the Echoes And Aftermaths Of Colonialism In Irmentioning

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The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism

Lemay-Hébert,

Jerrems

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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Necro-archivo de la Revuelta Popular Chilena y sus infraestructuras políticas

Landaeta,

Carmona,

Jerrems

2023

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Cet article se propose d'analyser les modes de persistance de la soi-disant « explosion sociale » qui s'est produit au Chili entre octobre 2019 et mars 2020, en considérant deux phénomènes : d'une part, l'opération systématique d'effacement des traces de la révolte populaire de l'espace public ; et, d'autre part, le récent rejet de la proposition de nouvelle Constitution. Ce travail traite des débris et des spectres de la révolte, pour lesquels est proposée une nécro-archive de l’ « explosion sociale », où sont assemblés les différents rythmes du processus, dans l'intention de repenser les diverses réverbérations des événements.

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Transient Political Infrastructures: Toward an Atlas of the Chilean Uprising

Cited by 2 publications

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The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism

The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism

Necro-archivo de la Revuelta Popular Chilena y sus infraestructuras políticas

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