Heritage making in post-Industrial landscapes: Legitimizing working-class narratives in Lota, Chile.
This presentation examines the opportunities and challenges of historic preservation and social inclusion in the post-industrial landscape of Lota, an ex-coal mining city in southern Chile. Focusing on the ways in which people living there are actively and critically engaging with processes of memory-work and meaning-making I explore how organized citizens use heritage as a political tool to challenge a history marked by structural inequalities that continues to impact the community in the present.