The March as a Safe Space and Dynamics of Resocialization

Abstract

In this article, we affirm that the feminist march of March 8, 2019, in Santiago constituted a safe and secure space for the women who participated in it. As a result, it created the conditions for the deployment of individual resocialization processes through which the categories and modes of organization of patriarchal society are challenged. Using the accounts of participants, the article describes some of the elements involved in the production of this safe space, contributing empirical evidence to a debate that tends to be mostly speculative. The article includes a theoretical discussion and analyzes 11 “walking interviews” with women who participated in the march. The interviews were conducted by one of the authors a few days after the march in the places where it took place (in situ).