ABSTRACT
Latin America has suffered disproportionately during the COVID-19 pandemic. The human impact has been chaotically and catastrophically evident across the three countries we examine here: Colombia, Chile, and México. Those nations were already creaking under the effect of generations of neoliberal ideology: their intellectual, political, and ruling-class fractions had long-embraced its core project of redistributing income upwards and privatizing public goods, notably healthcare. In response to that raging inequality, uprisings had occurred through new citizen movements in 2019. They intensified in 2020 and 2021, as citizenship was enacted in powerful ways.
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Toby Miller
Toby Miller is the author and editor of over 50 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters. He edits two journals and a book series and is past President of the Cultural Studies Association.
André Dorcé
André Dorcé’s interests are focused on the role of both material and symbolic communication technologies as expressions -and constitutive elements- of contemporary subjectivities and power relations.
Jorge Saavedra
Jorge Saavedra Utman’s research interests are set on media, communications and agency, activism and social change, and cultural studies, with a particular interest in Latin America.