Daniela Fazio Vargas

I am a visiting PhD student originally based at the University of Manchester, where I am enrolled in the Sociology department. I hold a bachelor's degree in philosophy (cum laude) and a bachelor's degree in history (summa cum laude) from the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), where I did my Master's in Sociology (cum laude). In my PhD research, I have been exploring the political significance of music in the context of the 2019 Chilean uprising; throughout my career, I have been interested in analysing the interplay between arts, politics, and social transformation. Particularly, I have researched how music has helped to resist the Southern Cone dictatorships. I have also focused on music movements, such as The Chilean New Song – a research awarded by the Chilean Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage. Further, I have participated in initiatives of knowledge exchange and publications with the British Council on the relationship between music and peacebuilding.

Experiencing a Song: the Aesthetic and Political Significance of Music

Music has played a crucial role in recent Chilean history as conduct for social and political demands, and the protests of 2019 were no exception. El Estallido, apart from being a social and political uprising, was also an artistic outburst. In part because demonstrators resorted to art to mobilise themselves but also for the greater visibility of artists and their performances during the protests. Hence, my overall argument attempts to show how protests can be spaces where aesthetic experiences (of music) can be made possible, enabling us to understand how they can be politically transformative even in cases where there is little or no change in the institutional arena. As I intend to show, looking at aesthetic experiences enables us to shed light on shifts in which individuals perceive and relate to themselves, others and the world, but so too, as they made it possible to envisage an alternative order of things where the unthinkable becomes thinkable, the inaudible audible, the invisible visible. 

Articles

• Fazio Vargas, D. (2023). “Un mundo que canta: crítica protesta y resonancia”. Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales. 
• Fazio L. &  Fazio Vargas, D. (2022).  “Somos una misma historia”: la militancia musical de Inti-Illimani en su exilio italiano, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos [En línea]. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/89860
• Fazio, L., Fazio, D., Pineda Ramos, C.A. (2021). La música del Estallido social chileno: el despertar visto desde la ventana del acontecimiento. Revista Tempo e Argumento, Florianópolis, v. 13, n. 34, p. e0203, DOI: 10.5965/2175180313342021e0203.
• Fazio, H., & Fazio, D. (2018). El tiempo y el presente en la historia global y su época. Revista de Estudios Sociales, (65), 12-21.
• Fazio Vargas, D. (2017). Corazón, canta y no llores, no llores que los dolores hay que espantarlos bailando. Revista de Estudios Sociales, (59), 151-161.

Essays

• Fazio Vargas, D. (2024). “Revendicating the Political Right to Exist: The Critiques from the Constellation of Discomfort”. CIDOB International Yearbook 2023 (online version): https://www.cidob.org/es/articulos/anuario_internacional_cidob/2023/reivindicando_el_derecho_politico_de_existir_las_criticas_de_la_constelacion_del_malestar
• Fazio Vargas, D. & Pineda-Ramos C. (2023). “The Recognition of Divergent Voices: The Role of Artistic Expressions in Shaping the Conditions for a Long-Term Positive Peace”, Cultural Relations Collection, British Council. https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/cultural-relations-collection-2023-the_recognition_of_divergent_voices.pdf
• Fazio Vargas, D. (2021). La Nueva Canción Chilena: la génesis de un campo. Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage. Government of Chile.

Book and book chapter

• Fazio Vengoa Hugo, Fazio Antonella, Fazio Luciana, Fazio Daniela. (2022). Coronavirus y la deriva del mundo hacia lo social, Mexico: UNAM.
• Fazio Vengoa, H. F., Fazio Vargas, A., Fazio Vargas, L., & Fazio Vargas, D. (2015). El mundo en los ochenta: Universalismo vs. globalidad?. Ediciones Uniandes-Universidad de los Andes.
• Fazio, H., Fazio, L., & Fazio, D. (2015). Rusia, de los zares a Putin (1880-2015). Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes.

Translations

• Gutiérrez C. (2018). Etica, politica ed economia applicate ad un safari in Amazzonia” in Santiago Rey Salamanca Carlos B. Gutiérrez. Obras Reunidas, Volumen III. Bogotá, Ediciones Uniandes.

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