Cultural conditions in the constitution of political identities in Chile today. Some thoughts brought up by the case of secondary student’s movement of 2006

Abstract

Based on an empirical investigation of Secondary Student’s Movement of 2006, this paper develops some theoretical consequences that point out to explore the cultural aspects that influence the formation of political identities in Chile today. In a more abstract level, the existence of four cultural transformations of our own times is propossed, which radically change the perspective of the creation of political identities as understood in the past. They are: the reduction of spaces for building a personal position towards public issues, the broadening valuation of individual choice of political affiliation, the erosion of the maps that contribute to make sense of societal context and change processes; and the autonomization of subjectivity.