Chile Chile’s parliament in 2015 debated laws to strengthen human rights protection, as promised by President Michelle Bachelet, but none had been enacted at time of writing. These included measures to reform Chile’s counterterrorism law and to decriminalize abortion in limited circumstances. Other long-needed reforms, however, including an expected bill to end the jurisdiction of military courts over alleged human rights abuses by the Carabineros—the police responsible for public order and crime prevention—had not been introduced as of November. While courts
Chile In March 2014, President Michelle Bachelet began her second term in office with a committment to tackle social and economic inequality, focusing initially on overhauling the education and taxation systems. Her campaign platform in- cluded a pledge to bring Chile’s counterterrorism law into conformity with inter- national standards, and to present a law to end the prohibition of abortion when a pregnancy endangers the life of the woman or girl, is unviable, or results from rape. Her administration also undertook to end the jurisdiction of military courts
and how policymakers initially sceptical of policy innovations from abroad eventually transfer it to their own countries. Concretely, it examines the introduction of a leniency programme and criminal sanctions for cartel conduct in Chile in 2009 and 2016, despite scepticism among decisionmakers and stakeholders about the appropriateness of these measures for the country. In 2003, by broad consensus and going against the incipient global trend, Chile eliminated the general criminal provisions of its competition law dating from 1959. Later in the decade, policymakers
195 10 Re-imagined Community: The Mapuche Nation in Neoliberal Chile Gerardo Gómez Michel Introduction Academic discussion has profoundly reviewed the effects of neoliberalism in Latin American countries, defined its origins and metropolitan directives, and even celebrated the programmatic responses that in some countries such as Venezuela and Bolivia have allowed a glimpse of interrupted neoliberalism—not without facing serious problems such as the severe crisis of post-Chavism and the conflicts of Evo Morales regime with some indigenous peoples and its
to the international discussion on professional resistance by exploring its possibilities in the Global South, specifically, in Chile, a country in which neoliberalism was forcefully imposed during the late 1970s ( Harvey, 2005 ) and that, over the past two decades, has been confronted with growing social movements critiquing neoliberalism while demanding widespread political, social and cultural reform ( Somma, 2012 ; Garretón, 2016 ; Bossert and Villalobos, 2020 ; Somma et al, 2020 ). Our general hypothesis is that the particular manifestations of
349 EIGHTEEN Emerging retail gentrification in Santiago de Chile: the case of Italia-Caupolicán Elke Schlack and Neil Turnbull Introduction Chile is enjoying sustained economic growth accompanied by a boisterous real estate market, transforming its capital, Santiago. De Mattos (1999) states that this is the product of a strategy of economic liberalisation that has been in operation since the 1970s. This transformation is identified in the many manifestations of investment across the city, including inner-city renewal. These operations are taking place
translating science, evidence and research for policymaking and governance’ ( Stone, 2013 , p 3). For this purpose, first, we analyse the sharp increase in research and development (R&D) public funding occurring in Chile between 2005 and 2015, which notably expanded the number and quality of researchers, the availability of research grants in the country, and, as a result, the amount of research-related outputs capable of potentially informing policymaking. Second, we select a key education reform proposed and discussed in the initial years of the R&D funding expansion
, disconnected from the world of work and the economy ( Cook, 2004 ), as well as that of children lacking self-restraint in matters of consumption and money ( Zelizer, 2002 ; Power and Smith, 2016 ), a view common in the media today. In the present article, based on two discursive studies conducted with Chilean children, we, too, question these images. Our findings suggest that children develop a complex and subtle ethical reflexivity in relation to the economic efforts of their parents. This reflexivity is evident in their concern for the wellbeing of parents whom they see
337 Policy & Politics vol 38 no 3 • 337–52 (2010) • 10.1332/030557310X521044 © The Policy Press, 2010 • ISSN 0305 5736 Final submission February 2010 • Acceptance February 2010 Gendering politics and policy in transitions to democracy: Chile and South Africa1 Georgina Waylen Through a detailed comparison of two contrasting case studies – Chile and South Africa – this article explores two questions that are key to furthering our understanding of how politics and policies are gendered in third-wave transitions to democracy. First, why was it that some of the
how social work contributed to underestimating the impact of colonialism on indigenous peoples. Development of social work in Chile Social work in Latin America has been inspired by the professionalisation of social philanthropy, with a strong influence of the process used in US and Europe. In Latin America in the 1960s, a movement began within social work schools called the ‘reconceptualisation’ process. At this time, Marxist theory had a strong influence on social science and social work in Latin America. There was a movement towards seeking one’s own
