In this issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas, we set out to examine the social, political, and economic landscape in Chile as it navigates the waves of more than three years of social and political conflict. When we began planning this issue several months ago, most activists and political observers in Chile were optimistic that the country’s post-neoliberal world was just over the horizon. In the wake of the Rechazo vote, however, our goal as guest editors has been to create a space for scholars and activists to think through both the recent past and future as various sectors of the Chilean Left begin to chart a new course forward.

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnac20/54/4

This issue shows how Indigenous groups, social organizations, communities, and intellectuals are working to build expressions of plurinationalism that resist extractive capitalism and the legacies of colonialism while also combatting entrenched racism, imperialism, sexism, and homophobia. Plurinationalism emerged decades ago as an Indigenous proposition to rethink our political and social relations. In the face of the crisis of liberal democracy and the urgent need for new paradigms to confront climate chaos, the political imaginations of plurinationalism from below offer a vision for a new, more humane, and inclusive future for Abya Yala.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2024.2388365

https://nacla.org/news/2021/12/23/chile-boric-social-movements-constitution

https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/an-uprising-that-changed-santiagos-political-landscape

https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/until-living-becomes-worth-it-notes-from-the-chilean-uprising/

https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/why-pedro-pascal-being-unabashedly-chilean-matters/