About the Project
In this project we study the irruption of the feminist demands in higher education institutions in Chile, with emphasis on the challenges faced by the implementation of gender initiatives and policies, equality, and recognition of diversity.
Anillo ATE220009 Disonancias - "Dissonances: Community, University and Feminist Irruption"- is a research project funded by the National Research and Development Agency (ANID, by its acronym in Spanish) in Chile that brings together the Universidad de Valparaíso, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Universidad de Chile, and Universidad Austral de Chile.
The goal is to study the irruption of the feminist demands in higher education institutions in Chile, with emphasis on the challenges faced by the implementation of gender initiatives and policies, equality, and recognition of diversity. Thus, it focuses on the questioning of the State that put in evidence the cases of sexist violence in various educational spaces during its peak in the feminist May 2018 and seeks to know about the experiences of Chilean universities in this process of institutionalization of gender policies.
This initiative will also focus on understanding the issues related to delimitation, naming and hierarchization of the violence, public exposure of grievances, practices of call-out (public denunciation) and punitive approach, as well as difficulties for feminist demands to be integrated by the entire university community.
Institutions
Research Team
The research team is composed of a transdisciplinary group of six researchers working in different fields of study.
Andrea Vera
Dr. Andrea Vera is the director of Disonancias Project. She has a Ph.D. in mathematics and a degree in gender studies from the Universidad de Chile. She also works as an academic at the Mathematics Institute of the Universidad de Valparaíso. Her research areas are interdisciplinary including gender studies, feminist epistemology, social studies of science and technology, and mathematics.
She is currently the Principal Investigator of the Fondecyt Initiation Engineering Culture in Chile: An Interdisciplinary Approach and researcher of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Theory and Subjectivity (CEI-TESYS, by its acronym in Spanish) of the Universidad de Valparaíso.Links of interest:
Dra. Andrea Vera in Academia.edu
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Claudia Montero
Dr. Claudia Montero is the alternate director of Disonancias Project. She has a Ph.D. in Latin American studies from the Universidad de Chile, a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad de Salamanca, and a bachelor’s degree in history from the Universidad deSantiago, Chile. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Essex, England, and Central Michigan University, USA.
She is currently a full professor at the Institute of History and Social Sciences of the Universidad de Valparaíso, and she is the author of the book And They Also Made Newspapers. One Hundred Years of Women's Press in Chile 1850-1950 by Hueders publishing (2018). She is the director of the Prensa de Mujeres project, and she is also researcher in charge of the Regular Fondecyt Master Writings. Teachers in the Chilean Cultural Field 1880-1950 and co-researcher of the Regular Fondecyt History of advertisements about and for the Chilean family as consumer: goods, uses, identities and arguments (1850-1950).Links of interest:
Dra. Claudia Montero in Academia.edu
Sandra Vera
Dr. Sandra Vera is a sociologist from the Universidad de Chile and has a Ph.D. in sociology from the Universidad de Barcelona. She is currently an academic at the Department of Sociology of the Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Her lines of research and teaching are related to social movements, feminist activism, affect and politics, among others. She is also researcher in charge of the Fondecyt Initiation Politization of Grievance in the Chilean Feminist Movement. Speech(s) and Listening(s) from the Cultural Plot of Emotions.
Links of interest:
Dra. Sandra Vera in Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Tamara Vidaurrázaga
Dr. Tamara Vidaurrázaga has a Ph.D. in Latin American studies, is an academic at the School of Political Science, Government and Public Management at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano and is a member of the CLACSO Working Group Network of Feminisms, Gender and Memory in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research focuses on the New Left organizations in the Southern Cone of Latin America, paying attention to morality and political culture, women's activism and the second generation, based on feminist theory, cultural studies and the link between politics, emotions, and daily life.
She has edited and published several books, chapters, and academic articles, including Revolution as Inheritance. Resistance, Tensions, and Intergenerational Dialogues (UAHC, 2022); Women's Locker Rooms. Memories of Detainees in the National Stadium (IMU, 2019); Early Love. Dating Violence in Adolescents and Young Adults in Chile (IMU, 2019), among others.Links of interest:
Dra. Tamara Vidaurrázaga in Academia.edu
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María Antonieta Vera
Dr. María Antonieta Vera has a Ph.D. in political science with a major in gender studies from the Université Paris 8 and is a professor at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Gender and Cultural Studies in Latin America at the Universidad de Chile. Her areas of teaching and research include feminist political philosophy, politics of difference, intersectional analyses of domination, gender history, and postcolonial feminisms.
She is currently the researcher in charge of the Regular Fondecyt Civilizing: Affective Economies and Sentimental Education in Schools and Boarding Schools in Araucanía (1895-1953) and co-researcher of the Regular Fondecyt Gendered Constitutional Debates and Paradoxical Citizenships in Chile, 20th-21st Centuries.Links of interest:
Dra. M. Antonieta Vera in Academia.edu
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Lelya Troncoso
Dr. Lelya Troncoso is a feminist social psychologist with a degree in psychology from the Universidad de Valparaíso, a master in social psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, and a master in gender studies from the Lund University in Sweden. She also has a Ph.D. in psychology from the Universidad de Chile.
She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Social Work at the Universidad de Chile. Her fields of teaching and research are critical social psychology, feminist studies, critical theories of sexuality, intersectionality, memory, and human rights.
She is currently a coordinator of the “Diversity and Gender Nucleus: Intersectional Feminist Approaches” of the Universidad de Chile and researcher in charge of the Fondecyt Initiation Memories of Feminist Activism in Chile (2010-2020): An Intersectional Analysis of Experiences, Differences and Coalitions in Political Praxis..Links of interest:
Dra. Lelya Troncoso in Academia.edu
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Assistant researchers
Rocío Gallardo
Rocío Gallardo is a social worker from the Universidad de Chile, and a student of the master in gender and cultural studies with a major in humanities at the Universidad de Chile. Her areas of interest are intersectional feminist studies and approaches. She is also currently participating in the Fondecyt Initiation Memories of Feminist Activism in Chile (2010-2020): An Intersectional Analysis of Experiences, Differences and Coalitions in Political Praxis in charge of Dr. Lelya Troncoso.
Daniela Lillo
Daniela Lillo Muñoz is a professor of Spanish at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación and has a master's degree in gender and cultural studies with a major in humanities, from the Universidad de Chile.
She is currently a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Studies on Thought, Culture and Society at the Universidad de Valparaíso. Her areas of teaching and research are non-sexist education, initial teacher training with a gender perspective, childhood and gender, and feminist mobilizations from the perspective of childhood studies.
Valentina Lastra
Valentina Lastra is a community psychologist from the Universidad Católica de Chile. She is currently a professor in the Faculty of Psychology at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy with a major in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Universidad de Chile and holds a Master's degree in Philosophy from the same university. Her main lines of research are in the field of gender studies and community intervention.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Panchiba Barrientos
Dr. Panchiba F. Barrientos is a researcher in feminist theories, LGBTIAQ+ public cultures and dissident genders. She has a master's degree in history and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Universidad de Chile.
Her teaching fields are LGBTIAQ+ public cultures, autobiographical writings and lesbian memoirs, and feminist and gender-dissident epistemologies.
Dr. Barrientos is also the director of the Biblioteca Fragmentada project and has been a member of the team of the podcast "Feminist Archives. Spinning Memories and Conversations Among Friends" since 2020.Links of interest:
Dra. Panchiba Barrientos in Academia.edu
Professional Team
Carolina Muñoz
Carolina Muñoz Rojas is a Public Administrator, holds a Bachelor's degree in Government and Public Management, and a Diploma in Gender Studies from the Universidad de Chile. She is currently a PhD candidate in Education at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, researching gender policies in higher education. Her teaching and research areas include public policy and gender. She has served as a consultant for the UNDP and ECLAC of the United Nations, as well as for the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) of UNESCO.
Valentina Fuentealba
Valentina Fuentealba is a professor of History and Social Sciences and has a degree in History from the Universidad de Valparaíso. Her work is developed as part of the liaison team between the research teams of the project and the university management. She currently works in the administration of the project and at the same time in thesis advising on topics related to Gender, Women's History and Diversity.
Oriana Miranda
Oriana Miranda is a Journalist from the Universidad de Chile, Master in Anthropology from the Universidade Federal Fluminense and an activist for the social and cultural rights of women and dissidents. She has worked as a communicator in national and international organizations, as well as in written, radio and digital press. She is currently coordinator of communications at Catáloga Colectiva. Her areas of interest are human rights, feminisms, politics and culture in South America.
Postgraduate thesis students
Lucas Bastidas
Lucas Bastidas is a Social Worker and student of the Master in Social Work at the Universidad de Chile. His background includes interventions related to comprehensive sexual education in educational settings, aimed at sexual justice and the prevention of gender-based violence. He is currently a thesis student in the Disonancias Project and a member of the Núcleo I+D+i Diversidades y Género. His areas of interest include gender, men, masculinities and violence, approached from an intersectional perspective.
Diego Cruz
Diego Cruz is a clinical psychologist from the Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2019, he completed a postgraduate degree in Psychoanalytic Adult Clinic at the Universidad de Chile. His research draws from psychoanalysis, philosophy and gender studies. He has worked as a clinical psychologist since 2017 and is the chairman of the board of ONG Tempora, an organization dedicated to clinical-community mental health. He has been invited to teach as a guest professor at the School of Psychology of the Universidad Católica de Chile and in the Master's program in Clinical Psychology at the Universidad de Chile.
Naira Martínez
Naira Martínez is a Philosophy teacher from the Universidad de Chile and is currently a thesis student in the Disonancias Project, in order to obtain a Master's degree in Gender and Cultural Studies at the Universidad de Chile. Her areas of interest are feminist political philosophy and intersectional feminist approaches. Her research work has articulated discussions on feminist epistemologies, non-sexist education and pedagogy, and the notion of justice in contemporary feminisms.