Uses, values and senses of heritage space of Valparaíso under the context of the Social Uprising

This article addresses the crises of representation of the official heritage spaces of Valparaíso under the context of the social outbreak. Its general objective is to analyze the tensions and disputes around the uses, values and meanings of these spaces, regarding its category of World Heritage Site, maintaining as a hypothesis that even before its UNESCO declaration, the city had become a space for negotiating memories and identities where the hegemonic spatio-temporal relationship of heritage is broken, generating other representations of it. In methodological terms, a qualitative analysis will be carried out based on the critical review of scientific articles on heritage and news from different digital media, whether newspapers and/or communications areas of university institutions or similar that address the social outbreak and its repercussions in Valparaíso. The results show the importance of the historiographic and critical variables to the representations of heritage in space, which contain the modification of the aesthetics of the city, the differentiated valuation of people with respect to that of the institutionality and the degradation of an image that is actually the support of a delegitimized political and ideological proposal.