Conference paper
Miss Chuquicamata: disputed mining settlement between foreign capital and national identity
TrAIN: Re-Contested Sites/Sights Conference University of the Arts, London
’Re-Contested Sites/Sights
8 May 2013
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Second Doctoral student-led research conference sponsored by the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, and Nation (TrAIN). The theme revolved around sites of conflict and the politics raised by their visual representation. The keynote speech was given by the art historian and cultural critic T.J. Demos, who has been a major source of knowledge for this thesis.
The paper Miss Chuquicamata: disputed mining settlement between foreign capital and national identity explores the contested history of Chuquicamata, once the world’s largest known deposit of copper. Through archival photographs and new visual documentations, it opens an imaginary space to make visible the repercussions of denationalisation of natural resources on the Chilean the social and environmental fabric of the country.
