Deliberative talk, critical communities and the making of the 2018 Chilean feminist student movement

Palacios‐Valladares, Indira

doi:10.1080/08263663.2022.2041844

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“…The findings presented here allow us to observe how the logics of patriarchal-colonial capitalism are experienced and contested by social workers implementing a mental health programme in Chile. The emphasis on functioning (working, to generate the money to survive) in the framework of neoliberal capitalism that is still at the heart of the Chilean model (Palacios-Valladares, 2022;Vivaldi & Sepúlveda, 2021) means that mental health is not a priority for users and workers. Nor does the programme, paradoxically, put life at the centre: it works at the expense of the material and emotional resources of the social workers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the silence around the contributions of either feminism or decolonial thought in the social work literature produced in Chile in its almost one hundred years of history is not surprising, unlike the prolific feminist productions in other schools in the Latin American region and other parts of the world (Martínez & Agüero, 2021). In Chile, the incorporation of feminist approaches in social work has only taken place in the last ten years (Duarte, 2013), very possibly thanks to the strength of feminist movements that in the recent period have installed a powerful critique of the precariousness of life as a result of the neoliberal, patriarchal and colonial capitalism of the Chilean model (Palacios-Valladares, 2022;Perry & Borzutzky, 2022;Vivaldi & Sepúlveda, 2021). Although in the last decade, the debates around violence against women, female labour inclusion, intersectional perspectives, masculinities and LGTBIQ+ identities have increased in terms of publications in scientific journals and book chapters in social work (Muñoz Arce et al, 2021), the gap between these intellectual debates and the professional practice of social work is still wide (Duriguetto & Madeiros, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Decolonial Feminism and Practices of Resistance to Sustain Life: Experiences of Women Social Workers Implementing Mental Health Programmes in Chile

Arce

Duboy-Luengo

2023

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Feminisms have had a significant impact on social work discussions in Latin America in recent decades. However, the gap between academic discussions and professional practice remains wide. Based on a qualitative study that included 69 semi-structured interviews with social workers in Chile, in this article, we focus the analysis on the experiences of women social workers implementing mental health programmes. These are women – professionals facing extremely precarious working conditions – who work with other women who, while below the poverty line, are users of state health policy. The findings suggest that in these highly precarious spaces, the division between professional and the user is blurred, producing what feminist philosopher María Lugones calls ‘liminal space’. Professionals and users establish alliances and practices of resistance from that liminal space to challenge the oppressions they experience. Drawing upon a decolonial feminist perspective, we identify challenges for social work such as problematising professional bonds, incorporating structural readings of precariousness and feminised resistance, and repositioning the value of frontline social workers’ and users’ knowledge. We can learn from these women's experiences that question the deepest foundations of colonial and patriarchal capitalism still present in training and professional practice.

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Decolonial Feminism and Practices of Resistance to Sustain Life: Experiences of Women Social Workers Implementing Mental Health Programmes in Chile

Arce

Duboy-Luengo

2023

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“…With the return of democracy, the feminist movement was divided into two factions: institutional feminists, who engaged in politics, and autonomous feminists, who avoided political ties (Palacios-Valladares 2022). This movement was pivotal in pushing for the emergency contraceptive pill (2007) and abortion rights (2013,(2016)(2017).…”

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Between Hope and Disaffection: The Chilean Constitution-Making Process and the Intermediation Crisis

Rozas-Bugueño

2024

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On November 15, 2019, following almost a month of massive daily demonstrations across Chile, most political parties agreed to initiate an unprecedented constituent process. This process introduced institutional innovations for the Constitutional Convention elections, including gender parity, reserving 17 seats for indigenous individuals, and allowing nonparty candidates to run as independent candidates (Heiss 2021; Suárez-Cao 2021).

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“…Environmentalist movements also increasingly mobilized after the 2000–2004 (Scherman et al, 2021), actively opposing numerous extractive projects and demanding new regulations. Since 2018, women's protests against violence, abortion restrictions, and gender inequalities have arguably become the country's most salient and massive expression of discontent, increasingly challenging the development model and its inequalities as a whole (Palacios-Valladares, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

Is it Worth the Risk? Grievances and Street Protest Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile

Donoso

Puga

Moya

et al. 2022

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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The COVID-19 pandemic started in Chile as the country was experiencing massive protests and a deep political crisis. Sanitary measures restricting movement and gatherings were implemented while the process of constitutional change responding to this crisis developed. In this context of conflict, we study why people continued participating in street protests despite the restrictions and the health risks involved. Using two surveys, we test key factors addressed in extant scholarship: biographical availability, perceived risks, and grievances. We find that grievances related to the pandemic were the most important factor, while biographical availability was much less relevant in the pandemic context. There is no evidence that perceived health risks mattered when deciding whether to join a street protest or not. These results suggest that under conditions of political crisis, grievances related to the administration of the pandemic can motivate political participation even when the latter put people's health at risk.

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Deliberative talk, critical communities and the making of the 2018 Chilean feminist student movement

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Decolonial Feminism and Practices of Resistance to Sustain Life: Experiences of Women Social Workers Implementing Mental Health Programmes in Chile

Decolonial Feminism and Practices of Resistance to Sustain Life: Experiences of Women Social Workers Implementing Mental Health Programmes in Chile

Between Hope and Disaffection: The Chilean Constitution-Making Process and the Intermediation Crisis

Is it Worth the Risk? Grievances and Street Protest Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile

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