Tag: Chilean constitution-making process
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Chile’s Constitutional Proposal Represents a More Radical Turn into Neoliberal Constitutional Politics
–Benjamín Alemparte, academic and researcher, University of Chile The recent election in Argentina of Javier Milei as new President has brought a renewed attention to the southern American region in terms of a more radical turn into libertarian economic policies. Milei’s candidature, a Thatcher-lover according to the Financial Times, suggested an ultra-neoliberal “shock” including, among…
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The Audacity of the Expert Commission in Chile
—Francisco Soto Barrientos, Professor, and Benjamín Alemparte, Researcher, University of Chile [Editor’s Note: Professor Soto is a member of the Expert Commission, while Mr. Alemparte is serving as his advisor.] The remarkable level of almost unanimous consent in the approval of a new constitution’s draft by Chile’s Expert Commission is an unprecedented case in the…
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A Call to Constituent-Power Ethnography
—João Vitor Cardoso, Universidad de Chile** [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] That ethnography is no longer the exclusive province of anthropology is undisputed. Within a wide range of disciplines that had taken ethnographic turns, there figures what Kim Lane Scheppele defines as “constitutional…