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Internal Movement Transformation and the Diffusion of Student Protest in Chile

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Abstract

This article seeks to understand the impressive scale of recent student protests in Chile. It underscores how relative institutional closure to student demands created, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, a growing cleavage between the movement and the political establishment, leading to major innovations in movement identity and organisation. These innovations rendered the movement more attractive to non-activists, helping in later years to diffuse contention from traditional hotbeds of student activism to schools and universities with little history of it.

Spanish abstract

El presente artículo busca explicar la excepcional magnitud de las recientes protestas estudiantiles en Chile. El análisis demuestra cómo el relativo cierre de las instituciones políticas a las demandas estudiantiles generó a fines de la década de los 90 y principios de los 2000 una escisión entre el movimiento y la clase política, contribuyendo a la creación de importantes innovaciones en la identidad y formas de organización del primero. Dichas innovaciones hicieron el movimiento más atractivo a estudiantes no militantes, contribuyendo así a difundir la protesta desde escuelas y universidades con una larga historia de activismo estudiantil hacia instituciones sin dicha tradición.

Portuguese abstract

Este artigo busca compreender a dimensão excepcional dos protestos estudantis recentes no Chile. Enfatiza-se como o relativo fechamento institucional às demandas estudantis criou, no final da década de 1990 e início da década de 2000, uma crescente cisão entre o movimento estudantil e a classe política, favorecendo importantes inovações na identidade e organização do movimento. Estas inovações tornaram o movimento mais atrativo a estudantes não militantes, contribuindo posteriormente para difundir a prática contestativa de universidades com conhecido histórico ativista para outras sem um histórico tão marcante.

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Chilestudentssocial movementsdiffusionChileestudiantesmovimientos socialesdifusiónChileestudantesmovimentos sociaisdifusão
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , August 2017 , pp. 579 - 607
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17 Centros de estudiantes are legally recognised, elected student government bodies. At the secondary level there is a centro for each school. University centros are organised by academic discipline. Secondary student federations bring together centros at the regional and national levels, while university federations organise the centros of a particular institution. Confederations represent several different federations.

18 The Duncan Index, a measure of educational inequality where 0 equals total equality and 1 total inequality, barely changed, moving from 0.32 in 1992 to 0.31 in 2002. See José Valenzuela, Evolución de la segregación económica de los estudiantes chilenos y su relación con el financiamiento compartido (FONIDE 211-2006, 2008), pp. 4, 14.

19 Ibid ., pp. 15–6.

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40 Interview with Rodrigo Roco, 8 Aug. 2013.

41 Interview with Víctor Orellana, 5 Aug. 2013.

42 Interviews with Víctor Orellana, 5 Aug. 2013 and Rodrigo Roco, 8 Aug. 2013.

43 Muñoz, Generaciones, pp. 220–2; interviews with Ivan Mlynarz, 6 Aug. 2013 and Jonathan Serracino, president Student Federation Universidad Alberto Hurtado (FEUAH) 2006–09 and representative Confederation of Students of Private Universities (CONFESUP) 2006, Nueva Izquierda activist, 15 Nov. 2013.

44 Claudia Rivas and Alejandra Carmona ‘Solidaridad: el Tea Party que amenaza el poder de la UDI en su cuna’, El Mostrador, 8 Nov. 2012; Muñoz, Generaciones, p. 228; interviews with Ivan Mlynarz, 6 Aug. 2013, Rodrigo Roco, 8 Aug. 2013 and Pedro Glatz, vice-president, Student Federation Catholic University of Chile (FEUC) 2011, Nueva Acción Universitaria (NAU) activist), 7 Aug 2013, and Sebastián Vielmas, 2011 secretary general FEUC, 2011, NAU activist, 7 Aug. 2013.

45 Meza, ‘Un tropezón no es caída’, pp. 214–27; Muñoz, Generaciones, pp. 229–32; Orellana, Apuntes, pp. 8–11; Nicolás Grau and Francisco Melo, ‘FECH 2004–2006: movilización, propuestas y reorganización del movimiento estudiantil, unpubl. manuscript; interviews with Nicolás Grau, president FECH, 2006 and representative CONFECH, Nueva Izquierda activist, 4 July 2013; Felipe Melo, 2005 president FECH 2004 and representative CONFECH, Nueva Izquierda activist, 13 Nov. 2013, Víctor Orellana, 5 Aug. 2013 and Bryan Seguel, representative FECH, 2010, Federación de Estudiantes Libertarios (FEL) activist, 17 June 2013.

46 Interviews with Víctor Orellana, 5 Aug. 2013, Rodrigo Roco, 8 Aug. 2013, and Diego Sáez, 27 Nov. 2013.

47 For an example of how this process played out at the University of Chile see Muñoz, Generaciones, pp. 222–4.

48 Interviews with Ivan Mlynarz, 6 Aug. 2013, Víctor Orellana, 5 Aug. 2013, Rodrigo Roco, 8 Aug. 2013 and Diego Sáez, 27 Nov. 2016.

49 Interview with Rodrigo Roco, 8 Aug. 2013.

50 Muñoz, Generaciones, p. 124; interview with Ivan Mlynarz, 6 Aug. 2013.

51 Interview with Jonathan Serracino, 15 Nov. 2013.

52 Ibid .

53 Interview with Víctor Orellana, 5 Aug 2013.

54 Ibid .

55 Interviews with Eloisa González, spokesperson, Coordinating Assemblies of Secondary Students (ACES), 2011, Juventud Rebelde, 26 June 2013; María Huerta, spokesperson Secondary Student Assemblies (AES), 2006, independent, 19 June 2012, and Bryan Seguel, 17 June 2012.

56 Although widely used in the study of protest, news coverage has its limitations, including bias in the selection of events to be covered and the content of coverage, as well as omissions and errors in reporting. To limit these problems, I use a variety of sources. For 1990–99 I compiled the data myself from El Mercurio, La Tercera, La Época, La Nación and El Fortín Mapocho. These sources are circulated nationally and represent a wide spectrum of political views. For 2000–11 I relied on OSAL, Cronologías del conflicto social. OSAL draws from El Mercurio, La Nación and La Tercera, as well as radio podcasts and news magazines, such as El Siglo and Punto Final, and El Fortín Mapocho. It does not use La Época, which closed down in 1998.

57 In other words, if an individual participated in such events on five different days in a given year she/he was counted five times.

58 Kubal, ‘Challenging the Consensus’, pp. 117–35; Lustig et al., ‘Basta ya!’, pp. 223–31; Scherman et al., ‘La protesta en la era de las redes sociales’, 179–97; Donoso, ‘Dynamics of Change’, pp. 1–29.

59 Grau and Melo, ‘La FECH 2004–2006’.

60 Institutos profesionales are educational institutions that offer two-year degree courses.

61 Grau and Melo, ‘La FECH 2004–2006’; interview with Felipe Melo, 13 Nov. 2013.

62 Interview with Jonathan Serracino, 15 Nov. 2013; available at http://noticias.universia.cl/vida-universitaria/noticia/2005/09/07/337943/reglamento-nuevo-credito-educacion-superior-esta-fase-final.html.

63 Interview with Jonathan Serracino, 15 Nov. 2013; Universia, ‘Reglamento de nuevo crédito’.

64 Interview with Nicolás Grau, 4 July 2013.

65 Ibid .

66 Banco Mundial, Programa de Crédito con Aval de Estado en Chile (2011), p. 22.

67 Ibid ., p. 49.

68 Ibid ., p. 46.

69 Kubal, ‘Challenging the Consensus’, pp. 119–25; Donoso, ‘Dynamics of Change’, pp. 18–23.

70 Ibid ., p. 8.

71 Interview with María Huerta, 19 June 2012.

72 Donoso, ‘Dynamics of Change’, pp. 20–3.

73 Interview with María Huerta, 19 June 2012. See Bachelet's 2006 educational proposals, available at http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/mensajes_presidenciales 19 June 2013.

74 Interview with María Huerta, 19 June 2012.

75 Donoso, ‘Dynamics of Change’, p. 9.

76 Domedel and Peña y Lillo, El mayo de los Pingüinos; interviews with Simón Ramírez, spokesperson College of Social Sciences Catholic University of Chile, 2011, FEL activist, 20 June 2012 and Bryan Seguel, 17 June 2012.

77 OSAL 2006, p. 13; ‘Siga minuto a minuto el paro nacional de los estudiantes’, available at http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/2006/05/30/220617/siga-minuto-a-minuto-el-paro-nacional-de-los-estudiantes.html.

78 Interview with Nicolás Grau, 4 July 2013.

79 Interview with Sebastián Vielmas, 7 Aug. 2013.

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81 Ibid ., p. 57.

82 Document available at http://www.revistadocencia.cl/pdf/20100730201333.pdf.

83 Interviews with Pedro Glatz, 7 Aug. 2013, and Matías Schmidt, NAU activist, 2011, 17 July 2013 and Sebastián Vielmas, 7 Aug. 2013.

84 Interview with Pedro Glatz, 7 Aug. 2013.

85 Federación de Estudiantes Libertarios, Pontificia Universidad Católica, ‘Piñera y Lavín. Por qué la “reforma” en educación vale hongo?’, available at https://felpuc.wordpress.com/documentos/mas-antiguas/2010-2/pinera-y-lavin-por-que-la-reforma-en-educacion-superior-vale-hongo/; Jackson, El país que soñamos, pp. 58–60; Vallejo, Camila, Podemos cambiar el mundo (Mexico DF: Ocean Sur, 2012), pp. 68–72 Google Scholar; Figueroa, Francisco, Llegamos para quedarnos (Santiago: LOM, 2013), p. 22 Google Scholar; interview with Camilo Ballesteros, president Student Federation of the University of Santiago 2011 and representative CONFECH, Communist Party activist, 9 July 2013.

86 Interviews with Beatriz Vega, president Centro de Estudiantes Ciencias Políticas Catholic University, 2010, NAU activist, 10 July 2013 and Sebastián Vielmas, 7 Aug. 2013.

87 Interviews with Pedro Glatz, 7 Aug. 2013, Matías Schmidt, 17 July 2013 and Sebastián Vielmas, 7 Aug. 2013.

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90 Scherman et al., ‘La protesta en la era de las redes sociales’, pp. 179–97.

91 Interview with Bryan Seguel, 17 June 2012.

92 Figueroa, Llegamos para quedarnos, pp. 133–8; Jackson, El país que soñamos, pp. 82–7.

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94 Interviews with Pedro Glatz, 7 Aug. 2013 and Sebastián Vielmas, 7 Aug. 2013.

95 Interview with Francisco Sainz, president FEUAH, 2013, FEL activist, 11 July 2013.

96 Interview with Daniela López, president Centro de Estudiantes Universidad Central, 2011–12, Izquierda Autónoma activist, 19 June 2013.

97 Interview with Bryan Seguel, 17 June 2012.

98 Domedel and Peña y Lillo, El mayo de los Pingüinos, pp. 65–96, German Bidegain, ‘Leading the Social Movement: Competing Organisational Dynamics and Leadership in the 2011 Chilean Student Movement’, (manuscript).

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102 Interviews with María Huerta, 19 June 2012, Bryan Seguel, 17 June 2012 and Sebastián Vielmas, 7 Aug. 2013.

103 Interview with César Valenzuela, president centro Liceo de Aplicación and spokesperson AES, 2006, Socialist Party activist, 13 June 2012.

104 Interview with César Valenzuela, 13 June 2012 and Sebastián Vielmas, 7 Aug. 2013.

105 Interview with María Huerta, 19 June 2012.

106 ADESUP, Minutes 8 June of 2006 and Estructura y Funciones del Movimiento, 12 June 2006.

107 Simonsen, Mala Educación; interviews with Eloisa González, 26 June 2013, Simón Ramírez, 20 June 2012, Bryan Seguel, 17 June 2012 and Sebastián Vielmas, 7 Aug. 2013.

108 Interviews with Gabriel González, president Centro de Estudiantes Instituto Nacional (CAIN), 2012 and representative National Coordination of Secondary Students (CONES), independent, 25 June 2013 and José Soto, president CAIN, 2011 and representative, CONES, independent, 9 Aug. 2013.

109 German Bidegain, ‘Leading the Social Movement’; Figueroa, Llegamos para quedarnos, pp. 99–108.

110 Interview with Simón Ramírez, 20 June 2012.

111 Alexei Barrionuevo, ‘With Kiss-ins and Dances, Young Chileans Push for Reform’, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2011; El Mostrador, ‘Yodebo.cl, el sitio web donde estudiantes publican su deuda’, 13 June 2011.

112 At the height of protest the movement enjoyed the support of roughly 70 per cent of the population, available at http://www.adimark.cl/es/estudios/documentos/08_ev_gob_agos_2011.pdf.

113 Interview with Sebastián Vielmas, 7 Aug. 2013.

114 Rojas, Sociedad bloqueada; Garcés, Mario, El despertar de la sociedad (Santiago: LOM, 2012)Google Scholar, Mayol, Alberto, No al lucro: de la crisis del modelo a la nueva era política (Santiago: Debate, 2013)Google Scholar; Cárdenas and Navarro, El movimiento estudiantil.

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116 The latter was passed as a budgetary measure for 2016 but the Nueva Mayoría is seeking to make it permanent.