Abstract

SAAVEDRA, Juan; CARRASCO-VALDEBENITO, Yeniffer  and  NUNEZ-NUNEZ, Darlyn. The everyday life of the witnesses of the 2010 earthquake in Chile: rupture, recovery and reconstitution. Apuntes [online]. 2022, vol.49, n.91, pp.47-72. ISSN 0252-1865.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21678/apuntes.91.1365.

This article examines the way in which the 2010 earthquake affected the everyday life of witnesses of this disaster in the southern part of Chile. There were applied 32 in-depth interviews to direct witnesses. There are 3 categories in the path of post-disaster everyday life: rupture, recovery and reconstitution. The results show the witnesses' quality as biopolitical actors in everyday life in a neoliberal context and the use of biopolitical strategies to produce normality in the frame of this socio-political regime. The shared experience after disaster does not allow to remove the backgrounds in which neoliberal everyday life happens.

Keywords : Everyday life; disaster; witnesses.

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