Un estallido animal: Animalización y antropomorfización en el conflicto político chileno

Abstract

AbstractThis article analyzes the political utility and potency of animal symbolism in human self‐representations, relationships and hierarchies during the social outburst of October 2019 in Chile. Based on personal files and secondary sources, we argue that animalization and anthropomorphization were strategies used by both sides of the conflict to produce an imaginary of each other, as well as racial and class content of their antagonism.