Reflexiones sobre la politización de las arpilleristas chilenas (1973-1990)

Abstract

The work I present aims to reflect upon the arpillera workshops, specifically on the arpillera maker women, that appeared during the chilean military dictatorship. In the context of repression and censorship imposed on the country, a group of women affected by the detention, and later the forced disappearing of their relatives, initiates a search, denounce, and interpellation toward society. I propose that the experience lived by these women, in the course of their interpellation to the dictatorship and their interaction with the rest of the society in the public sphere, transformed them into socially legitimate political actors. The analysis I make of this transformation gives account of a historical change regarding the logics of politics.