BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260805T220104EDT-1819fNRw29@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260806T020104Z DESCRIPTION:While post-authoritarian Chile is often depicted as a\ndepoliti cized society\, for the last few months thousands of Chilean\nuniversity s tudents have been engaging in regular\, mass\nprotests.  They are denounci ng the neoliberal model inherited\nfrom Pinochet’s dictatorship and demand ing free\nhigh quality education so that middle and working class\nfamilie s can send their children to the university without\nsuffering huge debts.   Moreover\, the students have been\nextending their demands beyond the do main of education and have\nreceived the support of the labor movement.  W hile this mass\nmobilization of the Chilean middle class is surprising in itself\,\nit also seems to be opening cracks in the predominant institutio nal\nstrategies that the Chilean left has been pursuing since the return\n of democracy in 1990.  Now that it is in the opposition for\nthe first tim e in twenty years\, the Chilean left may be gradually\nelaborating strateg ies that are not strictly conditioned by the\nlegacies of Pinochet’s dicta torship.  This panel will look at\nthese protests from different angles an d relate them to other\,\nongoing protests.\n DTSTART:20111004T190000Z DTEND:20111004T210000Z LOCATION:Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 rue Sherbroo ke Ouest SUMMARY:Social Movements and Student Protest in Chile: the Beginning of a Post-Pinochet Order? URL:/channels/event/social-movements-and-student-prote st-chile-beginning-post-pinochet-order-177524 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR