The Judicialization of Social Protest: Between Repressive Strategy and the Search for a Protection Sphere

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  • Centro de Investigación y Defensa Sur CIDSUR Centro de Investigación y Defensa Sur CIDSUR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/ACS2020.11.7

Keywords:

judicialization, human rights, Mapuche people, social outbreak, social protest, criminalization

Abstract

By crossing participant observation, ethnography, documental analysis and case-study in a sort of methodological DIY, we deal with the process of judicialization underwent by Chilean social protest from 18 October on. The results of such a process are the same as those experienced by Mapuche social protest in Wallmapu in the past twenty years: efficient repressive judicialization of protest, accompanied by increasingly inefficient protective judicialization, which accounts for the spreading to the Chilean society at large of the regime of legal exceptionality applied to the Mapuche people. Such an instrumental use of the country’s legal system makes it possible to go on with the continual violation of the rights of the victims of both police and political violence, increasing at the same time their suffering.

 

 

 

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Published

2021-01-23

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CIDSUR, C. de I. y D. S. (2021). The Judicialization of Social Protest: Between Repressive Strategy and the Search for a Protection Sphere. Social Conflict Yearbook, (11). https://doi.org/10.1344/ACS2020.11.7

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No. 11: SOCIAL CONFLICT YEARBOOK IN MAPUCHE TERRITORY, 2019

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