Thinking History from the Body: An Interview with María Angélica Illanes
Keywords:
Social history, Chilean historiography, dictatorship, memory, body, epistemology of womanAbstract
In this interview, María Angélica Illanes revisits her article
on Chilean “popular” historiography of the 1980s, written in the context of the dictatorship and a generational need to rethink historical practice. The conversation reconstructs the conditions under which the text was produced and clarifies her understanding of social history as an approach that decenters the analytical gaze in order to examine regimes of power from the standpoint of civil social relations and historical experience, while maintaining a structural reading of domination. On this basis, Illanes develops the notion of an “epistemology of woman” as a situated key to knowledge that links body, experience, and consciousness, and that challenges traditional hierarchies between reason and corporeality. Finally, the interview
addresses the contributions of gender historiography and recent history.
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