The reconfiguration as the way to become. Emerging of the detention and/or torture centers in the dictatorial Chile

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José Santos Herceg

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The present document is based on the finding that the reconfiguration its the way in which the detention and/or torture centers are established by the chilean military dictatorship. ‘Reconfiguration’ means the process by which the property is altered on its purpose and meaning and moreover on its infrastructure. Thus, stadiums, universities, high schools, colleges, hospitals, became part of the huge contingent of 1.168 detention and/or torture centers that operated during the dictatorship. Using the testimonies of prisoners that were confined in such places is intended to establish the way in which they became involved in such process of reconfiguration, and the way in which this affected them, setting up another form of torture.

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José Santos Herceg

Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Santiago, Chile.