La culture au Chili : réflexions sur un processus de constitution d’une catégorie d’intervention publique

Abstract

This paper deals with making culture a public intervention category in Chile, from 1989 to 2008. The process began in a particular historical and socio-political context characterized by the democratic transition heralded by the 1988 plebiscite and consolidated by the 1989 elections. At this time culture began to gain a fundamental role in the social and political development in Chile. Previously denied a formal organizational structure, the new institution’s cultural interventions were fragmented and fragile.

Keywords

• public policy
• public intervention
• culture
• institutionalisation