Social identities and political representations in conflict: the Chilean educational system in the Andes of Arica, 1884-1929

Abstract

This paper aims to explain and analyze how certain contradiction
is manifested in the social identities in the population of the Andean
highlands of Arica during the process of implementing the post-Pacific
War education, specially in its act of incorporating the policies of
the Chilean education in these territories when there was a renewed
residue of Peruvian citizenship in the everyday act of this Andean
population (currently, northern Chile).
In characterizing this process of socio-political and socio-cultural
mixtures, I intend to discuss two points: first, that beyond the process
itself, there was since before the occupation a Chilean idea of modernity
implemented by a liberal ideology that permeated the whole
nineteenth century Peruvian society. Second, that there was a dispute
of an education beyond the nationalities in conflict as an articulating
axis. Since there was a clear involvement of local schools to their
designated Andean spaces, I suggest using the idea of modernity that
could support this proposal.