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A different state of exception: Governing urban reconstruction in post-27F Chile

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  • Ignacio Farías

    (TU München, Germany)

  • Patricio Flores

    (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)

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The 2010 earthquake-tsunami in Chile did not just destroy cities and towns. It also revealed how the neoliberal decentralisation of the Chilean state initiated during the Pinochet dictatorship had radically diminished and fragmented territorial planning capacities, representing a major obstacle to the planning and management of the reconstruction process. In the face of this situation, exceptional reconstruction agencies were created, which engaged in the elaboration of master plans, suspending in practice – at least temporarily – existing planning authorities and instruments. These new institutional arrangements were also subject to a number of critiques, sparking moral controversies among different public actors about the contribution of these exceptional governmental agencies to the common good. Drawing on the Chilean example, this article proposes expanding the concept of the state of exception to include cases in which what is reconfigured is not the relationship between the State and the population, but the relationship between the state and its territory, so that exceptional powers can be applied upon a ‘bare land’ rather than a ‘bare life’. To the extent that this different state of exception does not reduce citizens to bodies to be protected and administered, it requires a moral rather than a technical justification.

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  • Ignacio Farías & Patricio Flores, 2017. "A different state of exception: Governing urban reconstruction in post-27F Chile," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(5), pages 1108-1125, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:54:y:2017:i:5:p:1108-1125
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098015620357
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    1. Frances Stewart and Gustav Ranis, 1994. "Decentralization in Chile," Human Development Occasional Papers (1992-2007) HDOCPA-1994-09, Human Development Report Office (HDRO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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    1. Jorge Inzulza-Contardo & Paulina Gatica-Araya, 2019. "Subsidiary displacement and empty plots: Dilemmas of original residents and newcomers in the reconstruction of Talca, Chile 2010–2016," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(10), pages 2040-2057, August.

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