Papers
Democracias violentas (o la urgencia de abrazar analíticamente lo que nos incomoda)
ForumLas noticias sobre el Rancho Izaguirre, conocido como el “Auschwitz mexicano”, conmoverán a la opinión pública por un tiempo, hasta pasar lentamente al olvido. En esta edición de LASA Forum queremos enfatizar la recurrencia de otro “olvido” que intuimos nos resulta cognitivamente cómodo. Sin embargo, esta amnesia es inconveniente en términos normativos y analíticos.
Seguir leyendoHow does moralization work? Exploring the operational logics of morality
International SociologyEsta sección temática propone una comprensión situacional de la moral. A partir de la teoría de la práctica, el neopragmatismo y la fenomenología, se propone una vía post-durkheimiana hacia la sociología moral. Así, se enfatiza la naturaleza fragmentada, dependiente del contexto y situacional de la vida moral tal como emerge a través de interacciones sociales concretas.
Seguir leyendoCollective memory and psychosocial trauma: New conceptualizations, new tensions from Latin America
Current Opinion in PsychologyThis article presents a critical review of several fields of inquiry that have explored the tensions involving collective memory and trauma associated with political violence, and which provide evidence for the impact of traumatic events on memory processes.
Seguir leyendoRepresentaciones de la dictadura chilena a 50 años: dramaturgias y trauma psicosocial
Latin American Theatre ReviewEn 2023, Chile conmemoró el 50 años del aniversario del golpe de Estado que dio inicio a una sangrienta dictadura civil y militar que duró 17 años, cuyas consecuencias psicosociales y políticas aún se sienten. Para comprenderlo, desarrollamos un proyecto de investigación con el objetivo de analizar cómo se ha representado y simbolizado la dictadura civil y militar chilena en el teatro chileno desde 1973 hasta la actualidad.
Seguir leyendoAccusations of academic extractivism in Chile’s historical poor neighborhoods: root causes and alternative practices
City. Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, ActionOur paper examines this issue from three perspectives: residents’ experiences with institutions and researchers, and their aspirations for selfrepresentation; pressures of ‘fast science’ that disrupt the relationships between scholars and lower-class communities; and the challenges faced by our research team when implementing a conventional research design in these territories.
Seguir leyendoCrime, Women and Information and Communications Technologies: Everyday Management of Insecurity in Santiago and Buenos Aires
Anthropos 57 (1)In recent decades, crime has become a public concern and a daily issue in Latin America. This study, based on interviews with women in Santiago, Chile, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, reveals that their primary concerns are street harassment and sexual crimes, which mainly impact their mobility in the city.
Seguir leyendoSchools as Safety Nets. Break-downs and Recovery in Reporting of Violence Against Children
Journal of Human ResourcesSchools are a key channel for formally reporting violence against children, but this channel broke down with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study how widespread such reporting declines were and to what extent they were recovered once schools reopened.
Seguir leyendoEscenarios político-electorales en el Chile actual
Análisis CarolinaEste artículo analiza el escenario de cara a las próximas elecciones presidencial y parlamentarias en Chile se llevarán a cabo el 16 de noviembre de 2025.
Seguir leyendoWhen My Neighborhood Woke Up: Knitting Collective Action in Disadvantaged Areas Amid the 2019 Chilean Uprising
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace PsychologyOctober 2019 saw the birth of the largest wave of demonstrations to hit Chile in the last 50 years. The present work explores the fundamental role of space in the social and political identities of communities and asks how the social uprising developed at the neighborhood level, examining how it changed the relationship between these local spaces and their inhabitants.
Seguir leyendoCapitalist inequality and power, migration, and urbanity: A biographical interview with Nina Glick Schiller
American AnthropologistIn this interview, Glick Schiller critically reflects on the intertwined nature of her own biographical and intellectual trajectory; one where the boundaries between the intimate and the social, the theoretical and the political, or the intellectual and the personal, are porous and dynamic.
Seguir leyendoVigilar y cuidar. La ambivalencia de la participación ciudadana securitaria en Chile y Argentina
Contemporânea – Revista de Sociologia da UFSCarEn las últimas décadas, bajo el enfoque de Coproducción de la seguridad, las comunidades han sido llamadas a participar en la prevención del delito en los territorios. En América Latina, los gobiernos han implementado diversas estrategias pero aún son escasos los estudios comparativos que analizan las prácticas comunitarias en distintos vecindarios. En este trabajo abordamos la experiencia chilena (Santiago) y argentina (Buenos Aires) utilizando información de carácter cualitativo y etnográfico
Seguir leyendoRe-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa)
Sage JournalsToponymic struggles are about forms of civic belonging that street names enable or prevent. Drawing on a moral economy perspective, this article examines similarities and differences between struggles over street names in the Spanish city of Murcia and the South African metropolis of Johannesburg.
Seguir leyendoAutomatic knowledge-graph creation from historical documents: The Chilean dictatorship as a case study
ArxivThe paper present results regarding the automatic construction of a knowledge graph from historical documents related to the Chilean dictatorship period (1973-1990).
Seguir leyendoLas vidas migrantes en un asentamiento informal autoconstruido de Batuco
Revista Chilena de AntropologíaEste artículo aborda la relación entre autoconstrucción y migración en un campamento de Batuco, un pueblo ubicado en la periferia de la Región Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile.
Seguir leyendoSocio-Territorial Mobilization in Chile in Light of the Analysis of Protest Events, 2008–2020
Social Protest and Conflict in Radical NeoliberalismTo contribute to the study of environmental and territorial policy, this chapter seeks to characterize socio-territorial protest in Chile (2008–2020), its relationship with other types of protest, and its possible specificity and to explain the behavior of this type of protest during the social uprising that began on October 18, 2019.
Seguir leyendoThe toponymic battle: Renaming streets in Santiago de Chile 50 years after the military coup
Taylor & FrancisThus, this article offers a novel viewpoint that extends beyond the traditional scholarly understanding of memory politics and suggests that memory battles are not solely about clashes between those for and against victim memorialization.
Seguir leyendoSpecial issue: critical legal theory and social justice in the Americas
Latin American Legal StudiesLatin American Legal Studies publishes two issues per year in January and August.
Seguir leyendoSocial conflicts over the use of water resources in Chile: the role of social movements and business power
Oxford Development StudiesThis paper explores conflicts in contemporary Chile between local communities and economic elites over water resources usage, developing a frameworkthat seeks to bridge the gap between the literature on social movements and the scholarly work on business politics. It examines two similar cases.
Seguir leyendo50 Years After the 1973 Coup in Chile: Analysis of the Processes of Transition to Democracy and Transitional Justice
Seattle Journal for Social JusticeAfter 17 years of military dictatorship (1973–1990), Chile recovered its democracy peacefully and electorally and continues to transition to democracy today. In its first part, this article offers an overview of the main features of the political transition to democracy in Chile.
Seguir leyendoChallenging the policy space: The legitimation of alternatives in Chilean pension policy (1980–2019)
Latin American PolicyIn October 2019, Chile experienced its most significant cycle of protests since the return to democracy in 1990; one of the primary demands of this cycle was the improvement of pensions. What effect did the October upheaval have on the Chilean pension policy debate? In this study, we propose the concept of policy space, which we define as the realm of ideas wherein public policies are debated and whose boundaries are determined by the legitimacy of ideas from relevant actors.
Seguir leyendoSobre el efecto reparador de las sentencias civiles en casos de violaciones graves a los derechos humanos en Chile
Revista AteneaEste artículo explica el efecto reparador que pueden tener las sentencias condenatorias de demandas civiles en casos de violaciones a los derechos humanos en las víctimas y sus familiares. A pesar de haber transcurrido medio siglo desde la comisión de crímenes de lesa humanidad a partir del golpe de estado del 11 de septiembre de 1973, la búsqueda de justicia sigue siendo un anhelo en un total de 2.040 causas pendientes (civiles o penales) ante los tribunales de justicia en Chile.
Seguir leyendoLa construcción del lenguaje global de los derechos humanos en el Chile posdictatorial: un análisis de la representación local del caso Letelier
Revista AteneaEste artículo analiza la representación local del llamado caso Letelier, en la década de los 70 y la década de los 90 y sus significativos cambios en el discurso público. El atentado a Orlando Letelier en Washington tuvo una alta repercusión pública por su carácter internacional, lo que posibilitó cambios relevantes en la significación del pasado reciente en Chile. El objetivo de este trabajo es comprender cómo este emblemático caso contribuyó a la conformación y consolidación del lenguaje global de los derechos humanos en Chile.
Seguir leyendoLe peuple mapuche au Chili, Au-delà de l’invisibilité
MultitudesLes luttes des peuples indigènes sont une constante invisible de l’histoire du Chili, car elles constituent l’envers caché de la construction de l’État et de son évolution politique. C’est précisément parce que le Chili n’a pas réussi à construire des canaux institutionnels efficaces pour l’inclusion des peuples indigènes que leur invisibilité constitue le fait fondateur de leur place dans la communauté politique.
Seguir leyendoWhen social movements fail or succeed: social psychological consequences of a collective action’s outcome
Frontiers in PsychologyCollective actions occur all around the world and, in the last few years, even more frequently. Previous literature has mainly focused on the antecedents of collective actions, but less attention has been given to the consequences of participating in collective action. Moreover, it is still an open question how the consequences of collective action might differ, depending on whether the actions are perceived to succeed or fail.
Seguir leyendoDynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile
The Review of Economics and StatisticsWe identify dynamic impacts on domestic violence (DV) of the staggered imposition and lifting of lockdown across Chile's 346 municipalities. Lockdown increases DV helpline calls and shelter occupancy without increasing DV police reports. These results are consistent with lockdown raising incidence and creating barriers to reporting.
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