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Art in Social Movements: Shantytown Women's Protest in Pinochet's Chile

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How social movements use art is an understudied question in the social movements literature. Ethnographic research on the use of art by the prodemocracy movement in Pinochet's Chile suggests that art plays a very important role in social movements, which use it for framing, to attract resources, to communicate information about themselves, to foster useful emotions, and as a symbol (for communicating a coherent identity, marking membership, and cementing commitment to the movement).

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Adams, J. Art in Social Movements: Shantytown Women's Protest in Pinochet's Chile. Sociological Forum 17, 21–56 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014589422758

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