ABSTRACT
The introduction of this book provides the necessary information for the reader to know about the mobilisation in Chile, whose objective was to achieve free, public, high-quality education. It traces the origins and development of what has been labelled the largest mobilisation since the recovery of democracy in 1990 and in general with a) Chile’s neoliberal model; b) a public sphere dominated by media largely owned by private pro-neoliberal corporations; and c) a political technocratic environment in which the discussion about ‘the life in common’ is closed to all but a few actors. The introduction chapter of the book calls attention to the nature of voice deprivation in neoliberal landscapes and the kind of responses that media and communicative practices are exerting on those landscapes.
