Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
This line of research seeks to document, analyze and theorize the practices of radicalization and political and ethnic violence that occur in the country. It also analyzes the ways and mechanisms adopted by the State to address such violence, in consideration of international standards regarding the quality of the rule of law, democracy, and respect for human rights.
In relation to public organizations, the roles of the police and the armed forces, the Judiciary, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Public Criminal Defense Office, the Gendarmerie, the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security, the Undersecretariat for Human Rights, the Children Ombudsman Office, the National Human Rights Institute, among other agencies, are investigated. It also identifies best practices and deficiencies identified in the human rights training of state officials.
Additionally, it addresses the experiences of victimization of indigenous peoples and minorities for human rights violations, and the processes of (violent) political and ethnic radicalization, and how these coexist and eventually come into tension with other forms of political participation and expressions of democratic citizenship.
(Español) Proyecto Actores de la Revuelta Social: Lecciones desde la Justicia Transicional
Actores de la Revuelta Social: Lecciones desde la Justicia Transicional es un proyecto colectivo e interdisciplinar llevado a cabo por investigadoras/es de VioDemos, cuyos objetivos generales son:
a) Generar diagnósticos que contribuyan a la comprensión de las percepciones y actuaciones de diversos actores de la sociedad civil e institucionalidad pública a propósito del estallido social de 2019.
b) Formular propuestas concretas tendientes a fortalecer la democracia y el estado derecho, prestando especial atención a los desafíos y logros en las búsquedas de verdad, justicia, reparación, memoria y garantías de no reparación.
Subproyectos
“Análisis del rol de la Defensoría Penal Pública en la defensa de las víctimas de la represión estatal durante el estallido social”, José Manuel Fernández, Hugo Rojas, Tomás Pascual.
“Aportes de la Justicia Transicional a la reparación de las víctimas del estallido social: lecciones nacionales, internacionales y comparadas”, Salvador Millaleo, Hugo Rojas.
“Dictadura, escena teatral y 50 años: dramaturgias, memorias, historias”, Marcela Cornejo, Coca Duarte, Gabriela Aguilera.
“Desobediencia, subversión y delincuencia en tiempos de revuelta social”, Angel Aedo, Fernando Pairican, Alicia Olivari.
“La noción de victimidad de las víctimas de la revuelta en el archivo de Villa Grimaldi”, Oriana Bernasconi, Marcela Cornejo, José Manuel Fernández, Helene Risor.
“Las prácticas de reparación a las víctimas de la revuelta”, Helene Risor, Oriana Bernasconi.
“Registros de violaciones a los derechos humanos durante la revuelta social de 2019”, Oriana Bernasconi.
“Presos del estallido y familias”, Angel Aedo, Oriana Bernasconi.
Investigador Asociado
Structural Violence and Discrimination, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Hugo Rojas
Coordinator
Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Oxford, M.Sc. in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics. Lecturer in Sociology of Law at Alberto Hurtado University School of Law. Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Political Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Also, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Program on Memory and Human Rights and the Interdisciplinary Center on Public Policy, both at the Alberto Hurtado University.
Contacto
hurojas@uahurtado.cl
Structural Violence and Discrimination, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Andrés Kalawski
Ph.D. in History from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Drama School. He forms part of the Art, Performance, and Activism Millennial Nuclei (Núcleo Milenio Arte, Performance y Activismo NMAPA) where he develops dramaturgy as well as research. Principal researcher of “Genetic lecture of Chilean dramaturgy in the first half of the 20th century” (Fondecyt).
Contacto
akalawski@uc.cl
Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence, Structural Violence and Discrimination, Criminal Violence and Urban Insecurity
Ángel Aedo
Associate Researcher / Alternate Director
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology and Ethnology from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Anthropology and Researcher at the Justice and Society Center.
Contacto
jaedog@uc.cl
Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence, Criminal Violence and Urban Insecurity
Helene Risor
Associate Researcher / Director
(Español) Profesora asociada de la Escuela de Antropología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y profesora adjunta del Departamento de Antropología de la Universidad de Copenhague. Investigadora principal del Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas CIIR, investigadora principal del proyecto Fondecyt “After Harm: Interdisciplinary explorations of reparation initiatives in post dictatorship Chile” (2023-2026) y coordinadora de Latin American Social School on Social Issues LASI.
Contacto
hrisor@uc.cl
Criminal Violence and Urban Insecurity, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence, Structural Violence and Discrimination
José Manuel Fernández
Ph.D. in Law, Glasgow University, LL.M. Toronto University. Lecturer on Criminal Law, Alberto Hurtado University School of Law.
Contacto
jmfernandez@uahurtado.cl
Structural Violence and Discrimination, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Marcela Cornejo
Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Director of the School of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Researcher at the Center for Social Cohesion and Conflict Research (Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social COES).
Contacto
marcela@uc.cl
Structural Violence and Discrimination, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Marjorie Murray
Coordinator
Ph.D. in Anthropology from University College London. Associate Professor and Director of the School of Anthropology, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). Principal researcher of the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas, CIIR) and contributes at the Art, Performance and Activism Millennium Nuclei (Núcleo Milenio Arte, Performance y Activismo NMAPA).
Contacto
mmurray@uc.cl
Criminal Violence and Urban Insecurity, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Oriana Bernasconi
Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Associate Professor of Sociology at Alberto Hurtado University, Department of Sociology. Co-director of the Interdisciplinary Research Program on Memory and Human Rights at Alberto Hurtado University, Director of the research project “Political Technologies of Memory: Contemporary uses and appropriation of past human rights violations registry devices in Chile” (ANID).
Contacto
obernasc@uahurtado.cl
Structural Violence and Discrimination, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Rodrigo Mardones
Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University. Professor of Political Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Institute of Political Science. Member of the Research Center on Educational Politics and Practices (Centro Estudios de Políticas y Prácticas en Educación, CEPPE) and the University Network for the Study of Fraternity (Red Universitaria para el Estudio de la Fraternidad, RUEF).
Contacto
rmardonesz@uc.cl
Criminal Violence and Urban Insecurity, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Salvador Millaleo
Ph.D. in Sociology from Universität Bielefeld. Lecturer of Indigenous Law, Sociology of Law and Critical Legal Theory at the University of Chile School of Law. Researcher at the University of Chile Human Rights Center. He previously served as commissioner at the Human Rights National Commission (INDH).
Contacto
smillaleo@derecho.uchile.cl
Investigador Adjunto
Structural Violence and Discrimination, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Piergiorgio de Giminiani
Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University College London. Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Anthropology. Principal Researcher of the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas, CIIR) and Associate Researcher of the Ethnography of Neoliberalism and Aspiration Nucli (ENA).
Contacto
pdigiminia@uc.cl
Investigadores Jóvenes
Criminal Violence and Urban Insecurity, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Carla Alberti
Ph.D. in Political Science from Brown University. Lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Institute of Political Science, and researcher of the Millennium Institute on Data Foundations (Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos).
Contacto
caalbert@uc.cl
Criminal Violence and Urban Insecurity, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Fernando Pairican
Ph.D. in History from the University of Santiago. Adjunct Professor at University of Santiago, Diego Portales University and Alberto Hurtado University, and postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas, CIIR).
Contacto
fernando.pairican@uc.cl
Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence, Structural Violence and Discrimination
(Español) Manuela Badilla
(Español)
Profesora asistente de la Escuela de Psicología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Investigadora adjunta del Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social (COES).
Contacto
manuela.badilla@uc.cl
Structural Violence and Discrimination, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
(Español) Gabriela Piña
(Español) Académica de la Escuela de Antropología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Licenciada en Sociología y Filosofía de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Magíster en Antropología Social y Doctora en Antropología Social de la London School of Economics and Political Sciences.
Contacto
gapina@uc.cl
Investigador Postdoctoral
Structural Violence and Discrimination, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
Alicia Olivari
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology and M.Sc. in Anthropology and Ethnography from the University of Barcelona, B.Sc. in Psychology from University of Chile. Her research project in VioDemos addresses the conflict arising from social riots and the temporalities resulting from them, looking to understand the juvenile political construction it implies.
Contacto
alicia.olivari@viodemos.cl
Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence, Structural Violence and Discrimination
Damián Martínez
(Español) Investigador Postdoctoral del Departamento de Sociología de la Universidad de Murcia. , donde realiza un proyecto etnográfico sobre futuros urbanos y medioambientales en el sur de Europa. En VioDemos, trabaja sobre subversión política y los órdenes de justificación de la violencia en el Chile actual.
Contacto
damian.martinez@viodemos.cl
Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
(Español) Valentina Infante
(Español) Licenciada en Historia de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Magíster en Estudios de Patrimonio Cultural de University College London y Doctora en Sociología de University of Oxford.
Contacto
valentina.infante@viodemos.cl
Estudiantes de Doctorado
Criminal Violence and Urban Insecurity, Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
(Español) Diego Sazo
Cientista Político de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y Magíster en Estudios de Conflictos de la London School of Economics (Reino Unido). Estudiante de Doctorado en Ciencia Política de la misma universidad. Es Becario de la Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo ANID (Chile) y su trabajo de campo es apoyado por el Sir Patrick Gillam Scholarship Fund (Reino Unido).
Contacto
diego.sazo@viodemos.cl
Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
(Español) Tamara Lagos
Socióloga y Licenciada en Sociología de la Universidad de Chile, Magíster en Estudios Latinoamericanos de la misma universidad. Estudiante de Doctorado en Sociología de la Universidad Alberto Hurtado.
Contacto
tamara.lagos@viodemos.cl
Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
(Español) María Graciela Acuña
Licenciada en Historia, Mención en Estudios Culturales, de la Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. Magíster en Historia de la Universidad de Chile. Estudiante del Doctorado en Sociología de la Universidad Alberto Hurtado.
Contacto
graciela.acuna@viodemos.cl
Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
(Español) Wladimir Martínez
Antropólogo de la Universidad Católica de Temuco y Magíster en Antropología de la misma universidad. Estudiante del Doctorado en Antropología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Contacto
wladimir.martinez@viodemos.cl
Investigadores Senior
Political, Ethnical and Radicalization Violence
(Español) Milena Grass
(Español) Investigadora senior VioDemos. Profesora Titular de la Escuela de Teatro UC. Miembro del Consejo Nacional de Artes Escénicas del Ministerio Nacional de las Culturas, las Artes y Patrimonio (MINCAP) y Vicepresidenta de la International Federation for Theatre Research.
Contacto
mgrass@uc.cl