Paper short abstract:

Ana Troncoso Salazar examines how the south of Chile materialized as a German space and what the arrival of German Jewish refugees meant for it.

Paper long abstract:

Because of the persecution in Germany during the Nazi regime, German Jews have to flee to Chile. There they met a German colony that was established in the middle of the 19th century and which is now being criticized as part of the indigenous movement. Based on an ethnography with a camera, in my doctoral project I analyze the adaptation potential of racism and its role in identity tensions and the configurations of space, specially a german space in southern Chile.

In my contribution I put the process of adapting my dissertation project to a cultural studies film up for discussion. I ask how racialized citizenship processes from German Jews in Chile can be presented audiovisually. Furthermore, the thematization of ethical questions in relation to representation and the knowledge production process, as well as the position of one's own narrative perspective are central.