Symposium on democracy and inequalities will take place in Berlin At the Ibero-American Institute, on February 13, the Symposium ‘The Challenges of Chile: Democracy and Inequality’ will take place. This instance will open a dialogue on the analysis of public protest, social movements, social coexistence and democracy in contemporary Chile. For the occasion, Dr. Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela, president of the International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies (IIPSS) and professor…
Micro-biographies and memory studies in Chile: Methodological observations from the social research
(31.07.17). The article “Microbiografías y estudios de memoria en Chile: Observaciones metodológicas desde la investigación social”, written by Damián Gálvez González and Nicolás Del Valle, was published by Cultura, Hombre, Sociedad, Vol. 27, n. 1 (2017): páginas 159-181 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7770/cuhso-V27N1-art1091 This article introduces the micro-biography as a research technique for the study of social memory. Based on methodological observations made in a study of human rights violations in the town of Paine,…
Third seminar of pluralism and media in Chile
Third seminar on pluralism and media in Chile On October 25 the third seminar on pluralism and media in Chile organized by the Universidad Alberto Hurtado and the Universidad Mayor took place. In this occasion, focused on the challenges for the democratization of communications in the country, IIPSS researchers, Nicolás del Valle and Bastián González-Bustamante, presented a working progress research paper entitled “Media pluralism and public opinion in digital written…
Las acciones de la Presidenta y la concentración de los medios en Chile
Podríamos destacar cómo existe una correlación entre la concentración del control y la propiedad de los medios junto a la distribución de poder comunicativo que estos tienen. Mientras más concentrada está la comunicación en unos pocos grupos económicos, más poderosos en el campo de la esfera pública son estos consorcios.
Alfredo Joignant and Katherine Hite: new researchers of Latin Memories Project
Alfredo Joignant and Katherine Hite are the new adjunct researchers of Latin Memories Project of the Institute. Katherine Hite is professor of political sciences at Vassar College (USA), and Alfredo Joignant is Full professor in political science at the Universidad Diego Portales (Chile).
Presa en el Estadio (2015)
Este libro reproduce un ejercicio de circulación de la memoria de las víctimas de las violaciones de los derechos humanos cometidas por la dictadura civil militar. Durante dos meses se emitió por Twitter, la historia de las mujeres detenidas tras el golpe de Estado de 1973 en el Estadio Nacional de Santiago de Chile.