Former student activist Gabriel Boric’s victory in Chile’s elections last month represented a resounding rejection of neoliberalism, in a historic turnout that saw the Apruebo Dignidad candidate obtain the largest majority in the nation’s history. As Boric prepares to take office in March - and the Constitutional Convention continues with its work of rewriting Chile’s constitution in a clear break from its Pinochet-era predecessor, with the aim to address the climate emergency as well as social and economic issues - the stage is set for historic change in Chile.
Join TWT and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung to discuss the recent elections, and the opportunities and challenges facing the Chilean left, with Dr Ivette Hernandez, Lieta Vivaldi, Doris González and Alondra Carillo Vidal on Monday 24th January at 7:30pm.
Dr Ivette Hernandez is a political sociologist at the University of Manchester whose research lies at the intersection of social movements, urban politics, contestation to neoliberalism in Latin America. She’s previously worked as a practitioner and education adviser on education, poverty, human rights, and development in post-conflict settings in Latin America.
Lieta Vivaldi works at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Law Department. She is a lawyer and diplomate in gender and violence from the Universidad de Chile, and also works as a researcher in the Center of Applied Ethics (CEDEA) at Universidad de Chile, and as an associate researcher of the Faculty of Law at Universidad Diego Portales. She is a board member of the International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies, IIPSS (Santiago, Chile), and Chilean Feminist Lawyer Association (ABOFEM). Her research focuses on human rights, sexual and reproductive rights, sociology and law, biopolitics, and feminisms. [@lietavivaldi]
Doris González is the Leader and founder of the Movimiento Ukamau (Ukamau Movement), an organisation that fights for the right to dignified housing and the right to the city, which organises with neighbourhood pobladorxs (community residents) and workers. She’s a graduate in Social Work and master graduate in Housing from the University of Chile.
IG @dorisgonzalezlemunao / TW: @doris_gonzalez_
Alondra Carillo Vidal is a psychologist, feminist militant and member of the Coordinadora 8 de Marzo and the group of Feminist Studies in Chile. She has collaborated in the book ‘For a feminist Constitution’, published by Pez Espiral. In 2021, she was elected as a delegate for the Constitutional Assembly in Chile and became one of the main spokeswoman of the grassroots alliance Movimientos Sociales Constituyentes (Constituent Social Movements).
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