The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences
The Makeover: Reality Television and Reflexive Audiences
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改造:真人秀电视和反射性观众
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2014
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通讯作者:
Brian McKernan
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Brian McKernan
strue any differences of opinion, admission of ambiguity, or alternative strategy as evidence of ‘‘inauthenticity.’’ Understandably, Richards is exceedingly wary of providing such fodder to Chilean racists, sometimes to the detriment of her analysis. This underscores how difficult alliances between Chileans and Mapuche might be, given how far Chilean society is from recognizing its own violent, imperial history. Richards suggests that, to recognize the violent dispossession of the Mapuche, Chileans would have to reconsider their identities as pioneers who built something out of nothing, and as victims of uncontrollable foreign forces, including colonialism, multinational companies, and ambiguous others who want to incite the Mapuche and talk about race. How these identities are reproduced across white and mestizo Chileans of different social classes, and the post-colonial aspects of Chilean identity, requires a whole other book, where concepts like Walter Mignolo’s ‘‘border thinking’’ may be more useful than ‘‘neoliberal multiculturalism.’’ Richards falls somewhat short of her goal to ‘‘race’’ the Chilean miracle, but she raises important questions about the endurance of contradictions and falsities in Chilean identity and their impacts on the poorest. Most remarkable of all, after a painful history of repression and dispossession, Richards delivers on her promise by ending with some grounds for optimism about reconciliation between the Mapuche and Chileans.