This thesis describes the ruins of the Estallido Social, an uprising that, in 2019, exposed the enduring legacies of neoliberal governance, social inequality, and the precarization of life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2023 in the anarchist-popular squat Los Pies del Cerro, I aim to place this event into the ongoing memory-politics battles of post-dictatorial Chile. This work seeks to contribute to the scope of empirical cases in which memory activism plays a role in reclaiming contested spaces. The analysis centers on three intertwined political registers: disappearance, as a mechanism of governance tied to state terror and neoliberal erasure; appearance, as an act of counter-memory through which different political agencies resurface; and re-existence, as a process that re-asserts practices and alliances as alternatives ways of living and resisting erasure.
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