Migrant Bodies: Cultural Resistances and Entangled Inequalities

This essay arises as part of a process of conceptual and empirical exploration around the dis­pute and transformation of public space, both in its material and symbolic expression, through cultural practices. I have focused on those expressions that have a performative character, in consideration of the capacity of bodies to break into everyday life, produce space and generate collective presences, while constituting processes of enunciation from the differences. This is especially significant for those who have restricted access to the constitution of the public, given certain power relations that define who and what counts for a community. Based on this observation, I analyze the case of Mery Cortez Ortiz, mother of a young Ecuadorian murdered by the Army in the framework of the so-called “Chilean Social Outbreak”, using bibliographic and press review.