En la conferencia, el profesor Mike Neary (Universidad de Lincoln, Inglaterra) presentará su trabajo sobre el movimiento estudiantil chileno desde la perspectiva de los estudiantes, que fue basado en la pregunta: fueron las protestas estudiantiles reforma o revolución? 

Lugar: Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (Periodista José Carrasco Tapia 75, Santiago).

Fecha: Lunes 19 de enero, 15 horas.

Organizan: CIAE U. de Chile / Facultad de Educación U. Católica

Conferencia en inglés, sin traducción simultánea

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Abstract:

This paper provides a report on the Chilean student movement, 2011 - 2014, from the perspective of the students themselves, based on the main question: are the student protests for reform or revolution? The research data was collected during October 2013 before the Chilean Presidential election using the methods of ‘live sociology’.  The material is interpreted through a particular analytical framework: political sociology for action,  arranged around a set of paradigms which seek to understand radical political social transformation: charisma, social movement theory, an historical-materialist political economy, and an interpretation of Marx’s labour theory of value in a post-colonial context. Each of these paradigms are elaborated with reference to an exemplary publication that deals with the Chilean situation in particular and Latin America more generally. The paper argues that the students have developed a sophisticated consciousness in relation to the problems and possibilities of  leadership/charisma, an awareness of the power and complexity of their own position as a social movement, together with a strong understanding of the need to contextualise their resistance within the context of a particular version of political economy: neoliberalism. The paper  concludes by arguing that the dichotomous debate about reform or revolution can be dissolved through a critical engagement with Marx’s labour theory of value, described in the paper as ‘anti-value in motion’.