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My research focuses on love practices, representations, and experiences of Chilean citizens between the years 1880 and 1940 in the city of Santiago. I am mainly interested in their emotions and private lives to understand how the emotional bond was built socially. Some of the questions that guide my research project are: How did the State regulate love; How did people describe the couple's love; What practices seem relevant to them as symbols of affective commitment; Among others.
I chose this period because in 1884, in Chile, lay laws were enacted. The State replaced the Catholic Church's role and began to regulate intimate relationships such as marriage, divorce, birth and death. This process of secularization impacted the private lives of citizens in different ways and how people understood their love relationships.
Awards | Grants | Scholarships | Funding
- Scholarship for PhD BECAS CHILE - Call 2020
Publications
Books
- Fabregat Peredo, M. & Belmar Mac-Vicar, D. (2020). Más allá de la muerte. Recopilación de cartas y notas suicidas (Chile, 1870-1937). Buenos Aires: Prohistoria ediciones.
- Belmar Mac-Vicar, D. (2018). A nadie se culpe de mi muerte. Suicidios entre 1920 y 1940. Santiago y San Felipe. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Alberto Hurtado.
Articles
- Belmar Mac-Vicar, D. (2019). Reflexiones en torno a la historia de las emociones, la historia del tiempo presente y la experiencia. Revista de Historia y Geografía. Universidad Católica Cardenal Silva, N° 40, 63-81. https://doi.org/10.29344/07194145.40.1897
- Belmar Mac-Vicar, D. (2015). “Mire, Papá” – Notas para un estudio microhistórico del suicidio en tiempos de crisis económica. El caso de Julio Antolín Alfaro, Santiago de Chile, 1930. Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, Coloquios. https://doi.org/10.4000/nuevomundo.68642
- Belmar Mac-Vicar, D. (2015). “Dame mi anillo o mátame”. Suicidio y afectividad en registros judiciales de Santiago y de San Felipe, 1920-1937. Revista Historia y Justicia, N°4, 103-137.
