Violence, Order and Fear in Chilean Society: Thoughts 40 Years After the Pinochet coup d'etat

This talk examines the 1973 crisis, the Pinochet dictatorship and the implementation of the neoliberal order in Chile as expressions of longer-term historical conflicts and fears within Chilean society.  These conflicts may be described as the violent clash between those who sought to defend the traditional order (from the “enemies within”) and their idea of Chile as a nation, and those who wanted to transform social and economic relations within Chile.

Claudio Llanos Reyes is a Professor of History at the Instituto de Historia of the Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso in Chile.  He earned his doctorate at the University of Barcelona.  His research interests include nineteen- and twentieth-century Chilean social and political history, imperialism, theoretical approaches to history and ordo-liberal economic thought, as well as the Royal Geographical Society in London during the nineteenth century.   He is President of Asociación Chilena de Historia Económica  (Chilean Association of Economic History), leads the Research Group on State and Society in the Contemporary World at Valparaiso, and is editor-in-chief of the journal Historia 396.