La ciudad de “toque a toque”: Ilustraciones en la prensa chilena durante los primeros años de la dictadura

Marco González Martínez; Macarena Ibarra

doi:10.25074/actos.v8i15.3207

Authors

Marco González Martínez Centro de Estudios Históricos y Humanidades UBO https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4790-7905
Macarena Ibarra Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales PUC https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8203-0278

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25074/actos.v8i15.3207

Keywords:

authoritarian order, newspaper illustrations, curfew

Abstract

This article analyses illustrations published in four newspapers across six Chilean cities, between 1973 and 1975, to examine how the press portrayed central aspects of its measures amidst the validation of a dictatorial regime, and how these permeated the daily life of the citizenry. It is proposed that such images collaborated in the construction of a “sense of reality” that naturalised coercive measures, such as the curfew, promoting new practices of inhabiting urban and domestic space. Methodologically, the study develops a historical-cultural analysis of journalistic illustrations and drawings, considering their visual, everyday, and mass dimensions, as well as their function in the production of hegemony and social control during the establishment phase of Augusto Pinochet’s regime.

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Author Biography

Macarena Ibarra, Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales PUC

Historian and urbanist. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Leeds and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her research, publications, and teaching have focused on urban history and the history of urban planning, as well as on cultural and urban heritage. She is Professor at the Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales (IEUT, PUC) and Director of Núcleo Milenio Patrimonios, Nupats, funded by the Chilean National Agency of Research and Development (ANID), Chile.