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La formación de masculinidades hegemónicas en la clase dominante: el caso de la sexualidad en los colegios privados de elite en Chile

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William Robinson's article provides a suggestive framework to understand the relation between development and elites under globalization. Following his previous work, the core of his argument states that globalization represents an epochal change in capitalism (from corporate to global capitalism or from world to global economy). We are present, then, to a change in capitalism from a nation-state to a transnational model of accumulation and from national to transnational class relations.These changes, Robinson argues, have generated new fractions among national elites in the developing countries: nationally oriented and transnationally oriented elites. These two types of elites support two different strategies of development based in two different forms of accumulation: national industrialization and markets integration. He frames the argument in a context of sharp transformations of the class structure and a renewed struggle for control of the state in those countries.Robinson makes a significant contribution from a macrostructural perspective. He clearly shows how globalization can be a new source of conflict among elite groups, and what the consequences for development are. Particularly, what the implications of the predominance of transnational capital in developing countries are, and how this process is related to the implementation of a neo-liberal agenda.His argument is very welcome because it coincides with a revival of elite studies in Latin America during the last decade. In the region, the relation between development and elites has long been a major issue in social science. Indeed, elites themselves have always been obsessed with the idea of progress and modernization.Recently different scholars in the region have started to analyse the transformation of elites under globalization. Some authors have stressed the rise of a new elite in the state -the technocratsrelating them to the implementation of neo-liberal policies (Maihold, 2007;Silva, 1991). Others have suggested that dominant sectors in Latin America are involved in a double process of expansion of the weight of transnational capital and transnationalization of different fractions of local capital (Basualdo and Arceo, 2006). There is no doubt, then, that contemporary Latin American elites are rather different than the traditional elites described by different authors in the influential

Following the launch of our first special issue in December 2020 (Cann et al. 2020) we are delighted to publish this second, linked issue. As evidence of the impact and dominance of Raewyn Connell’s ideas and their influence on the field, we received so many high-quality abstracts in response to our call for papers that we decided to create two collections. This second special issue of Boyhood Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal, celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Raewyn Connell’s landmark text, The Men and the Boys (2000), and hosts a wide range of international and interdisciplinary authors to highlight the continued global relevance of the book and Connell’s work more widely. This issue continues this work by showcasing an impressive array of empirical research studies and reflection pieces by emerging and leading scholars that are guided by the original themes in The Men and the Boys.