Gestion du conflit social et attentes morales

Which processes and events allow to retrace the trajectory of a protest episode? How does the government and its management of the social conflict influence its radicalization? How does the non-recognition and violation of people's expectations legitimize collective action and its different forms of expression? Tackling these questions, this article analyzes the process of Chilean students' contestation, initiated in 2011 and still ongoing. First, we identify how the political power has hampered the processes of contestation since the end of the dictatorship (1989), and then which elements caused disillusionment among youth during the post-dictatorship's period. Finally, we focus on the "structural uncertainty" that led more and more groups of young people to radicalize their protest actions during the student's movement. An ethnographic study was made between 2011 and 2014 for this purpose