The revitalization of chilean political historiography

Abstract

We approach the revitalization that has experienced the chilean critical and political historiography. To do this, we analyze their main sources of inspiration: a) the historical and political chilean context, b) the review of the «New Social History»; c) the emergence of european historiographical schools of related topics. We postulate that: from this multidimensional relationship resulted a particularly critical synthesis, «revisionist» and renewed to approach the recent historical and political Chilean processes, which repositioned the political studies at the beginning of XXI century, filling a historiographical void left by the different disciplinary variants of the last century. In doing this it developed its own investigative characteristics, that some historians accompanied with novel theoretical efforts to substantiate epistemologically their work. Among them have highlighted the issues raised from different viewpoints of Cristina Moyano, Luis Corvalán and Juan Carlos Gómez. The methodology used is primarily qualitative, including oral history techniques where appropriate.