Towards a new Chile through the heart: aspects on the construction of a nationalist emotionology in school textbooks during Pinochet years (c.1974-c.1984)

Through the analysis of textbooks of history and social sciences and complementary literature used in Chilean educational system during the period 1974-1984,this article discusses a dimension not yet studied about the nationalist proposals promoted by the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet in Chile: the construction of a nationalist emotional project or,in terms of Peter Stearns,an induced emotionology ,among other means,by rearticulating interpretations of the history of Chile and the imposition of a nationalist matrix,an anti-Marxist and conservative Catholicism discourse regarding to society and culture. Beyond iconographic analyses (Jara),conceptual approaches (Olivares) or a focus on the censorship inflicted to textbooks (Ochoa),our article moves on a new perspective on the problem of nationalism and patriotic loyalty,an object that has become one of the first issues in the history of emotions,trying to provide a discussion focused not merely on the official’s own discursive construction but rather analyzing how to access to «structures of feeling» (Sobe)

Información de Publicación

Autores:

Pablo Toro

Institución: Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Facultad: Filosofía y Humanidades
Unidad: Historia

Revista:

History of Education & Childrens Literature

Año:

2015

Lugar:

Macerata,Italia

Volumen:

X

Número:

1

Páginas:

583-600

Url de Publicación:

http://p1.unimc.it/hecl/ulitmo-numero/history-of-education-childrens-literature/?searchterm=toro.