Videos by Ivette Hernandez
‘Rebirth’ captures the momentum of spontaneous celebrations that broke out on main squares across... more ‘Rebirth’ captures the momentum of spontaneous celebrations that broke out on main squares across the country to celebrate an overwhelmingly popular vote to change Pinochet’s constitution in the referendum held on 25th October 2020. Feminist movements have long been present in this struggle in Chile last October 2019 when nationwide protests against injustice and inequalities shaken the country.
This talk reflects on how the Chilean feminist movement has become one of the key driving forces of the 2019-2020 Chilean protests and its role in co-weaving a constituent process in Chile to write a new Chilean constitution. It discusses how this local struggle, along with contemporary feminist struggles elsewhere, offers ways to articulate feminism(s) as a potential historically distinctive counter-hegemonic political project to neoliberalism and towards internationalism. 7 views
Journal Articles by Ivette Hernandez
Citizenship Teaching & Learning, Special Issue Reconceptualising and Reimagining Citizenship Education in Light of Youth Led Global Movements, 2022
This article analyses youth activism in Chile through the lens of the Chilean student movement. I... more This article analyses youth activism in Chile through the lens of the Chilean student movement. It examines new forms of grassroots politics and popular democracy that have been at the core of struggles led by the Chilean student movement since the early 2000s. The article reflects on the legacy of this student movement regarding the transformation of the character and meaning of citizenship, politics and democracy within a post-authoritarian democratic society. The relationship between education and citizenship is placed in context, paying particular attention to how grievances around education are key to making education a space for legitimising new political ways. The article discusses the implications in the context of the 2019–20 Chilean protests, of the new forms of politics and the political that were part of the legacy of the Chilean student movement.
This article is about collective identity, learning processes and political agency in the Chilean... more This article is about collective identity, learning processes and political agency in the Chilean student movement. The geographies of collective identity are constituted through engaging with emotions interwoven with the political learning process through making mistakes that enabled student activists’ agency to undergo transformation between 2006 and 2011. Space articulates an identity politics as the bio-politics of existence through which life itself becomes a political action and animates a radical imaginary of politics as being-in-common. This meaning of politics interwoven with the production of territorial assemblies in 2011 through which the Chilean student movement reasserted the space-time of the political demand for free education in spatial rather than temporal terms by reimagining a collective vision with others. This represents the main legacy of the movement and becomes a condition of possibility for envisioning free education as an alternative project that seeks to contest neoliberal common sense.
Magis, Revista Internacional de Investigación en Educación, 2018
Este artículo explora la construcción de una identidad académica activista como un tercer espacio... more Este artículo explora la construcción de una identidad académica activista como un tercer espacio crítico-reflexivo. Un tercer espacio resulta clave para re-imaginar una identidad académica activista más allá de una relación asimétrica con lo subalterno. Así, políticas de afinidad y solidaridades situadas reorientan esta relación, desdibujando la división entre el conocimiento teórico y el conocimiento empírico con y sobre los movimientos sociales. Este artículo reflexiona sobre la producción de una identidad académica activista como tercer espacio, a partir del estudio sobre el movimiento estudiantil chileno, y considera las potencialidades, límites y desafíos de esta identidad como práctica de transformación colectiva.
Educação & Realidade, 2018
– Youth Activism in Chile: from urban educational inequalities to experiences of living together ... more – Youth Activism in Chile: from urban educational inequalities to experiences of living together and solidarity 1. This article examines the geographies of youth political activism in Chile. It makes the argument that a historical spatial identity of public education, as the engine of working-class and middle-class mobility, intersecting both with contexts of social mixing and with a historical urban educational inequality, provides a different lens through which to understand youth activism. This article seeks to analyse the linkages between these spatialities of public education and different geographies of youth activism as spaces of living together and as practices of solidarity. It reflects on the need for ongoing debates on citizenship education to engage with these geographies of youth activism in order to fully understand the significance of youth political participation within neoliberal market-driven education agendas.
Keywords: Chilean Student Movement. Youth Activism. Public Education.
Citizenship.
Journal of Social Science Education, 2013
Educação & Realidade, 2018
Este artigo examina as geografias do ativismo político da juventude no Chile. Defende que uma ide... more Este artigo examina as geografias do ativismo político da juventude no Chile. Defende que uma identidade espacial histórica da educação pública, sendo motor da mobilidade da classe trabalhadora e da classe média e fazendo a interseção tanto com contextos de combinação social como com uma desigualdade educacional urbana histórica, fornece uma lente diferente para compreender o ativismo da juventude. Este artigo procura analisar os vínculos entre estas espacialidades da educação pública e as diferentes geografias do ativismo da juventude como espaços de convivência e como práticas de solidariedade. Reflete sobre a necessidade de que os debates continuados a respeito da educação para a cidadania envolvam estas geo-grafias do ativismo da juventude, com a finalidade de compreender ple-namente a importância da participação política da juventude nas agendas neoliberais da educação voltada para o mercado.
Palavras-chave: Movimento Estudantil Chileno. Ativismo da Juventude.
Book Chapters by Ivette Hernandez
Social Activism – New Challenges in a (Dis) connected World, 2023
This article analyses the specific forms of doing and building politics in the Chilean student mo... more This article analyses the specific forms of doing and building politics in the Chilean student movement and through which it becomes a key actor for mobilising (re)politicisation within a post-authoritarian democratic society. The bio-politics of existence – transforming life into political action – is central to understanding this role. The bio-politics of existence refers to the emergence of a new political subjectivity in the Chilean student movement, engaging with new forms of (re) politicisation
of everyday life and forms of egalitarian political relationships. The bio-politics of existence interweaves with self-transformation to constitute subjectivities that subvert neoliberal governmentalities. Learning through making mistakes is central for student activists in 2006 to (re)vision their political agency and animate, in 2011, a radical political imaginary of politics as being-in-common. The manifold forms of the bio-politics of existence in the Chilean student movement, from everyday activism to grassroots building network alliances – presupposing temporal contingencies to identity politics as marginal sites and spaces of resistance – unveil a rhizomatic growth of egalitarian, participatory politics through which the Chilean student movement transformed, from below, the character of politics and democracy in a society
regarded as the first laboratory of neoliberalism.
Education and Social Change in Latin America, Editors Sara C. Motta & Michael Cole, 2013
In 2006 almost one million Chilean secondary students raised their political voices against an ed... more In 2006 almost one million Chilean secondary students raised their political voices against an educational system ideologically designed during the military regime and technocratically implemented during the governments of a political coalition known as the Concertacion. In their social and political protest – later known as the Penguins’ Revolution – students demanded that education is a right and not a privilege by exposing to society that the Chilean neoliberal experiment on education has failed in its aim to promote equity and social justice through equal opportunities of quality education for all. The rise of the Penguins’ Revolution was unprecedented in a political context of sixteen years of democratic governments of the Concertacion. The Penguins’ Revolution revealed the emergence of political actors and new political subjectivities that brought out alternative democratic spaces for participation that challenged the quality of democracy that the political elites have consolidated through a reformed template of neoliberalism. This paper explores emergent new political subjectivities and their making-process in the Penguins’ Revolution by arguing that what the Penguins’ Revolution disclosed in 2006 was the first stage of a making-process of resistance against the hegemony of a neoliberal trajectory undertaken by the governments of the Concertacion.
Conference Papers by Ivette Hernandez
What characterises the capacity for cross-movement mobilisation? This paper addresses this questi... more What characterises the capacity for cross-movement mobilisation? This paper addresses this question by analysing the experience of territorial assemblies as convergence spaces in the 2011 Chilean student movement. It argues that territorial assemblies provide a means to understand the conditions through which cross-movement mobilisation could be envisioned within a movement. This paper draws upon Paul Routledge’s notion of convergence spaces, associated with the constructive process of collective identity. It then brings into discussion Doreen Massey’s theoretical understanding of spaces of politics by arguing that convergence spaces entail spatiality of politics comprising a multiplicity of trajectories (Massey, 1999), as a sphere of genuine plurality articulated through the politics of agonism (Mouffe, 1995). Epistemologies of territory and territoriality are of significant importance for a more nuanced understanding of the production of convergence spaces within movements in the Global South. In the remainder of the paper I examine the construction of territorial assemblies within the 2011 Chilean student movement. The focus is on understanding how and why grassroots students set up and articulated their collective mobilisation through territorial assemblies. These assemblies intersected with a politics of identity embodied in the process of collective identity through which grassroots students reframed their political identities on the basis of their earlier involvement in the 2006 high school student mobilisations, known as the Penguins’ movement. The continuity of territorial assemblies and the solidarity upon which they are articulated are challenged by the effectiveness of different alliances and coalitions. Within the movement this challenge is detached from a temporal dimension since collective action is recognised as spatial. The spatial entails expanding the horizons of collective action with others through an unfinished and unpredictable process that remains key for re-imagining the political demand for free education as a potential political project for social transformation.
Blogs and Media Articles by Ivette Hernandez
In this month's episode, Dr. Ivette Hernandez Santibanez discusses the history and legacy of the ... more In this month's episode, Dr. Ivette Hernandez Santibanez discusses the history and legacy of the Chilean Student movement, from Pinochet and the neoliberalisation of the country in the 1970s through to the rise the Chilean Popular Front today. To learn more about the Universities and Crisis project, visit www.universitiesandcrisis.org.
Experts say news coverage led to Chile's rejection of new progressive draft constitution | Courth... more Experts say news coverage led to Chile's rejection of new progressive draft constitution | Courthouse News Service https://www.courthousenews.com/experts-say-news-coverage-led-to-chiles-rejection-of-new-progressive-draft-constitution/ 1/3 Experts say news coverage led to Chile's rejection of new progressive draft constitution Chileans voted against the radical draft that would have transformed the state and guaranteed broad rights, yet consensus remains on building an alternative constitution to replace the current dictatorship-era document.
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Videos by Ivette Hernandez
This talk reflects on how the Chilean feminist movement has become one of the key driving forces of the 2019-2020 Chilean protests and its role in co-weaving a constituent process in Chile to write a new Chilean constitution. It discusses how this local struggle, along with contemporary feminist struggles elsewhere, offers ways to articulate feminism(s) as a potential historically distinctive counter-hegemonic political project to neoliberalism and towards internationalism.
Journal Articles by Ivette Hernandez
Keywords: Chilean Student Movement. Youth Activism. Public Education.
Citizenship.
Palavras-chave: Movimento Estudantil Chileno. Ativismo da Juventude.
Book Chapters by Ivette Hernandez
of everyday life and forms of egalitarian political relationships. The bio-politics of existence interweaves with self-transformation to constitute subjectivities that subvert neoliberal governmentalities. Learning through making mistakes is central for student activists in 2006 to (re)vision their political agency and animate, in 2011, a radical political imaginary of politics as being-in-common. The manifold forms of the bio-politics of existence in the Chilean student movement, from everyday activism to grassroots building network alliances – presupposing temporal contingencies to identity politics as marginal sites and spaces of resistance – unveil a rhizomatic growth of egalitarian, participatory politics through which the Chilean student movement transformed, from below, the character of politics and democracy in a society
regarded as the first laboratory of neoliberalism.
Conference Papers by Ivette Hernandez
Blogs and Media Articles by Ivette Hernandez
This talk reflects on how the Chilean feminist movement has become one of the key driving forces of the 2019-2020 Chilean protests and its role in co-weaving a constituent process in Chile to write a new Chilean constitution. It discusses how this local struggle, along with contemporary feminist struggles elsewhere, offers ways to articulate feminism(s) as a potential historically distinctive counter-hegemonic political project to neoliberalism and towards internationalism.
Keywords: Chilean Student Movement. Youth Activism. Public Education.
Citizenship.
Palavras-chave: Movimento Estudantil Chileno. Ativismo da Juventude.
of everyday life and forms of egalitarian political relationships. The bio-politics of existence interweaves with self-transformation to constitute subjectivities that subvert neoliberal governmentalities. Learning through making mistakes is central for student activists in 2006 to (re)vision their political agency and animate, in 2011, a radical political imaginary of politics as being-in-common. The manifold forms of the bio-politics of existence in the Chilean student movement, from everyday activism to grassroots building network alliances – presupposing temporal contingencies to identity politics as marginal sites and spaces of resistance – unveil a rhizomatic growth of egalitarian, participatory politics through which the Chilean student movement transformed, from below, the character of politics and democracy in a society
regarded as the first laboratory of neoliberalism.