ABSTRACT

Besides large-scale rallies on the streets, the Chilean estallido social that commenced in October 2019, was noteworthy by the sudden emergence throughout the country of local-based and largely improvised instances of direct citizen participation, known as cabildos. Adopting multiple formats, cabildos invited people to meet and discuss a wide variety of public issues. Emerging at a moment in which national authorities agreed to hold a referendum to replace the country’s constitution, cabildos were considered a blueprint for the mechanism needed to integrate vast sectors of the population to deliberate on constitutional matters. This article explores such hypotheses, using analytic tools from science and technology studies, and based on a sample of cabildos held between October and November 2019. By focusing on issues such as materials involved in cabildos, the experience they formatted and the publics that emerged through them, we aim to show that cabildos could not be seen merely as a novel instrument for citizen deliberation. On the contrary, we sustain they represented a particular kind of citizen-led democratic experience; one on which the multiple paradoxes characterising post-authoritarian Chilean society are fairly evident. To properly become a basis for further democratisation, it is concluded, cabildos should be reflexively intervened, looking to strengthen its deliberative potential while controlling its antipolitical bias.

摘要

除了街头的大规模集会外，2019 年 10 月开始的智利estallido 社交活动值得注意的是，全国各地突然出现了以当地为基础的、主要是即兴公民直接参与的实例，称为cabildos。采用多种形式，cabildos邀请人们见面并讨论各种公共问题。在国家当局同意举行全民投票以取代国家宪法的时刻出现，卡比尔多斯被认为是整合广大民众以审议宪法问题所需的机制的蓝图。本文探讨这样的假设，利用分析工具从科学和技术研究，并根据样本cabildos十月和十一月间2019年举行通过重点问题，如涉及材料cabildos，他们格式化了经验和出现的通过公众他们，我们的目标是证明cabildos可能不仅被视为公民审议的新工具。相反，我们认为它们代表了一种特殊的公民主导的民主体验；后威权主义智利社会的多重悖论是相当明显的。要正确地成为进一步民主化的基础，可以得出结论，cabildos应该本能地介入，寻找同时控制其反政治偏见，以加强其审议的潜力。