Social Movements in Chile

Sofia Donoso is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Conflict and Social Cohesion Studies (COES) associated to the Universidad de Chile, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research has been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, as well as in several book chapters in edited volumes. She holds an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Oxford. Marisa von Bülow is Professor of Political Science at the Universidade de Brasília and a researcher at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is the author of various books, among them Building transnational networks: Civil society and the politics of trade in the Americas, and Social Movement Dynamics: new perspectives on theory and research from Latin America. She has also published several articles on social movements in Mobilization, Latin American Politics and Society, and other journals.

1. Introduction: Social movements in contemporary Chile.- 2. Shifting relationships between social movements and institutional politics.- 3. “Outsider” and “insider” strategies: Chile’s Student Movement, 1990-2014.- 4. From cooperation to confrontation: The Mapuche Movement and its political impact, 1990-2014.- 5. Democratizing the flows of democracy: Patagonia sin Represas in the awakening of Chile’s civil society.- 6. Feminism and gender policies in post-dictatorship Chile (1990-2010).- 7. Coping with neoliberalism through legal mobilization: the Chilean labor movement’s new tactics and allies.- 8. Chilean social movements and party politics in comparative perspective: Conceptualizing Latin America’s “third generation” of anti-neoliberal protest.- 9. Post-transition social movements in Chile in comparative perspective.