Othín Baños Ramírez
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 728294 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Othín Baños Ramírez |
| NOMBRES | Othín Baños |
| APELLIDO | Ramírez |
| FIRMA | RAMÍREZ O B |
| AFILIACIONES | Alberto Hurtado University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0685-124X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Cartographic narratives of spatial memories
Space is central to the political, moral and affective inscription of violence as well as the infra-politics of subaltern groups. This article introduces a collaborative cartographic methodology to document and disseminate the spatial dynamics of dictatorial repression, its resistance and legacy, focusing on mass raids in working-class neighbourhoods during Chile’s Pinochet era (1973–1990). Through mapping interviews and cartographic exhibitions …
Life Admin, with Oriana Bernasconi
University in Chile, joins UncommonSense to talk about a more serious side of the term -that of paperwork documenting human rights abuse -as well as a living, breathing archive and the analogue spreadsheet
Introduction
This dossier proposes to explore the uprising as a critical event provoking unprecedented processes of political subjectivation and opening the field of action and influence to subjects who had been kept on the margins of the construction of history. This introduction begins by describing the social uprising that occurred in Chile in 2019, the largest cycle of protests since the end of the Pinochet era. It then discusses the notions of critical e…
Mapuche Anticolonial Politics and Chile's Social Uprising
This essay examines milestones in the life history of one subject, Mauricio Lepin, and his involvement in the Chilean social uprising. By exploring the encounter of his trajectory with the uprising, the essay reveals under-explored dimensions of the anticolonial character of this critical event in Chile's history of the present. Lepin's case shows the entanglement of a long history of dispossession and resistance of the Mapuche people with a biog…
A Politics of Care from the Margins of Chile's Social Uprising
This essay addresses the Chilean social uprising of 2019 through the experiences of Marta and Juan, two residents of the peripheries of Santiago, who became involved in this event despite having no previous experience of participation in social and political organizations. It explores this event's strength in triggering contentious actions on the urban margins, and repression by the police-criminal apparatus of the state. Delving into the ethical…
Multitude and Memory in the Chilean Social Uprising
Between October 2019 and March 2020 Chile experienced the most massive and heavily repressed cycle of social protests in its post-dictatorship (1973-90) history. This essay explores the social uprising as a critical event of political subjectivation through the story of Ricardo, an ordinary young medical technician with no background of political affiliation who fully immersed himself in the forefront of confrontation with the police in the groun…
Permanence et reprise des actes écrits qui ont dénoncé par la voie judiciaire les atrocités de la dictature chilienne
Face à l'oralité et à la théâtralité des procès, le rôle de l'écriture dans le traitement judiciaire des atrocités massives n'a reçu que peu d'attention dans la littérature sur la justice transitionnelle, ou a été relégué à celui de source d'information. Le présent article souligne le rôle de l'écriture juridique dans la quête de justice dans des affaires de crimes contre l'humanité au fil du temps. En examinant la performativité des écrits jurid…
Silencios y verdad oficial. Operaciones de silenciamiento en el caso de la Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura de Chile
This article explores silence as a constitutive and constituent practice of the production of official and state truth regarding serious human rights violations, using the case of Chile as a starting point. We focus, in particular, on Chile's National Commission on Political Prisoners and Torture (2003-2005), and its counterpart, the Advisory Commission for the Qualification of Disappeared Detainees, Political Executed, and Victims of Political P…
Human Rights Archives
Human rights archives are collections of records documenting systematic, state‐led abuses of power through violence. They serve to assist those affected and to denounce state violence by recognizing the damage caused, recording the truth, and helping victims' reparation claims. In addition to serving as evidence in criminal prosecutions, these archives preserve victims' memories and assist pedagogy relating to past atrocities. For anthropology, h…
Factualize and commensurate human rights violations and organized violence
International audience
No Politics, No Society
Studies show that the state plays a positive role in shaping conditions for entrepreneurship and promoting economic growth through entrepreneurial activity. However, the question of how state intervention in entrepreneurship is justified in neoliberal regimes has received scant attention, although it can legitimize public policies. We examine the entrepreneurial slant of the Production and Commerce Development Corporation of Chile (CORFO), which …
Resistance to Political Violence in Latin America
Las comisiones de la verdad en la batalla de la memoria
Objective/context: Based on the framework of the battle of memory, this article examines the dispute (2014-2018) regarding the state embargo of documentation and information from 2004 from Chile’s National Commission on Political Prisoners and Torture and its resistance to a collective that can question the embargo, triggering a legislative discussion. Methodology: In this article, we apply a procedural and pragmatic focus to a body of qualitativ…
A performative and genealogical approach to the liminal subject’s social sustenance
Heating ecologies
Political Technologies of Memory
This article contributes to understanding the role of technologies during political violence and in transitional justice contexts, studying a case that was contemporaneous with the transnational construction of human rights activism. Examining documentation technologies that sustained nonviolent civic resistance to state terrorism during Chile’s Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), the article highlights the role of technology in creating t…
Reports on categorization and classification of human rights violations in Chile (1974–1978)
This study analyzes socio-discursive categories used to define and classify the political violence exerted in Chilean human rights reports (1974–1978) to understand the emergence of the repertoire of repression and the construction of victimhood as a social recognition and communicative process in Latin America during the 1970s. These reports are addressed as a professional discursive genre produced by non-governmental organizations whose purpose…
Un enfoque praxiográfico a la bici-movilidad en Santiago de Chile. El ciclismo urbano como un logro colectivo
En la última década en Santiago de Chile el uso de la bicicleta como medio alternativo de movilidad urbana se ha instalado con fuerza pero ostenta aún un lugar secundario en comparación a otras modalidades de transporte en términos de uso, infraestructura y normativa. Siguiendo un enfoque praxiográfico este artículo explora algunas de las formas en que se organiza y significa la bici-movilidad en dicha ciudad. Realizamos una etnografía distribuid…
What makes us to be individuals? A post-human, pragmatic and relational framework
The crisis of the idea of society and the turn towards the individual as the unit of problematization of contemporary western societies, eminently individualistic, have placed research on individuals and subjectivities at the core of social sciences’ work. With the aim of contributing to the renovation of this field’s theoretical and methodological tools, in this article I introduce a post-anthropocentric, pragmatic and relational framework for t…
Storying the Good Life
The connection between personal story and morality has been long enunciated, but remains under-researched. Combining moral and narrative theory, this article approaches this relation by introducing a line of narrative inquiry oriented towards the exploration of how ethical intentions with regard to the good life manifest in and shape the biographical storyline and the self narratively assembled. The analysis encompasses a first case-based stage f…
Negotiating Personal Experience over the Lifetime
Sociology and neighboring disciplines have produced different analytic tools to examine the dialogical relationship between individuals and society ('narrative work,' 'identity work,' 'moral career,' 'moral breakdown'). However, the question of how individuals negotiate the interpretation of personal experience over their lifetimes in a changing cultural context remains unexplored. This article introduces narrative elasticity as a feature of narr…
Being Decent, Being Authentic
Scholars have interpreted changes in sexual discourses from behaviouralist and structuralist perspectives, in the context of social movements, as expressions of power relations, among other approaches. This ar ticle advocates the study of shifting discourses of sexualities from the viewpoint of transformations in individuals' moral orientations over time. To this end, thematically, the article recovers Foucault's view of sexuality as a field of m…
Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent
Political Technologies of Memory
This article contributes to understanding the role of technologies during political violence and in transitional justice contexts, studying a case that was contemporaneous with the transnational construction of human rights activism. Examining documentation technologies that sustained nonviolent civic resistance to state terrorism during Chile’s Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), the article highlights the role of technology in creating t…
Heating ecologies
Las comisiones de la verdad en la batalla de la memoria
Objective/context: Based on the framework of the battle of memory, this article examines the dispute (2014-2018) regarding the state embargo of documentation and information from 2004 from Chile’s National Commission on Political Prisoners and Torture and its resistance to a collective that can question the embargo, triggering a legislative discussion. Methodology: In this article, we apply a procedural and pragmatic focus to a body of qualitativ…
Being Decent, Being Authentic
Scholars have interpreted changes in sexual discourses from behaviouralist and structuralist perspectives, in the context of social movements, as expressions of power relations, among other approaches. This ar ticle advocates the study of shifting discourses of sexualities from the viewpoint of transformations in individuals' moral orientations over time. To this end, thematically, the article recovers Foucault's view of sexuality as a field of m…
Negotiating Personal Experience over the Lifetime
Sociology and neighboring disciplines have produced different analytic tools to examine the dialogical relationship between individuals and society ('narrative work,' 'identity work,' 'moral career,' 'moral breakdown'). However, the question of how individuals negotiate the interpretation of personal experience over their lifetimes in a changing cultural context remains unexplored. This article introduces narrative elasticity as a feature of narr…
A Politics of Care from the Margins of Chile's Social Uprising
This essay addresses the Chilean social uprising of 2019 through the experiences of Marta and Juan, two residents of the peripheries of Santiago, who became involved in this event despite having no previous experience of participation in social and political organizations. It explores this event's strength in triggering contentious actions on the urban margins, and repression by the police-criminal apparatus of the state. Delving into the ethical…
Factualize and commensurate human rights violations and organized violence
International audience
Reports on categorization and classification of human rights violations in Chile (1974–1978)
This study analyzes socio-discursive categories used to define and classify the political violence exerted in Chilean human rights reports (1974–1978) to understand the emergence of the repertoire of repression and the construction of victimhood as a social recognition and communicative process in Latin America during the 1970s. These reports are addressed as a professional discursive genre produced by non-governmental organizations whose purpose…
Un enfoque praxiográfico a la bici-movilidad en Santiago de Chile. El ciclismo urbano como un logro colectivo
En la última década en Santiago de Chile el uso de la bicicleta como medio alternativo de movilidad urbana se ha instalado con fuerza pero ostenta aún un lugar secundario en comparación a otras modalidades de transporte en términos de uso, infraestructura y normativa. Siguiendo un enfoque praxiográfico este artículo explora algunas de las formas en que se organiza y significa la bici-movilidad en dicha ciudad. Realizamos una etnografía distribuid…
Storying the Good Life
The connection between personal story and morality has been long enunciated, but remains under-researched. Combining moral and narrative theory, this article approaches this relation by introducing a line of narrative inquiry oriented towards the exploration of how ethical intentions with regard to the good life manifest in and shape the biographical storyline and the self narratively assembled. The analysis encompasses a first case-based stage f…
Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent
Being Decent, Being Authentic
Scholars have interpreted changes in sexual discourses from behaviouralist and structuralist perspectives, in the context of social movements, as expressions of power relations, among other approaches. This ar ticle advocates the study of shifting discourses of sexualities from the viewpoint of transformations in individuals' moral orientations over time. To this end, thematically, the article recovers Foucault's view of sexuality as a field of m…
Negotiating Personal Experience over the Lifetime
Sociology and neighboring disciplines have produced different analytic tools to examine the dialogical relationship between individuals and society ('narrative work,' 'identity work,' 'moral career,' 'moral breakdown'). However, the question of how individuals negotiate the interpretation of personal experience over their lifetimes in a changing cultural context remains unexplored. This article introduces narrative elasticity as a feature of narr…
What makes us to be individuals? A post-human, pragmatic and relational framework
The crisis of the idea of society and the turn towards the individual as the unit of problematization of contemporary western societies, eminently individualistic, have placed research on individuals and subjectivities at the core of social sciences’ work. With the aim of contributing to the renovation of this field’s theoretical and methodological tools, in this article I introduce a post-anthropocentric, pragmatic and relational framework for t…
Storying the Good Life
The connection between personal story and morality has been long enunciated, but remains under-researched. Combining moral and narrative theory, this article approaches this relation by introducing a line of narrative inquiry oriented towards the exploration of how ethical intentions with regard to the good life manifest in and shape the biographical storyline and the self narratively assembled. The analysis encompasses a first case-based stage f…
Un enfoque praxiográfico a la bici-movilidad en Santiago de Chile. El ciclismo urbano como un logro colectivo
En la última década en Santiago de Chile el uso de la bicicleta como medio alternativo de movilidad urbana se ha instalado con fuerza pero ostenta aún un lugar secundario en comparación a otras modalidades de transporte en términos de uso, infraestructura y normativa. Siguiendo un enfoque praxiográfico este artículo explora algunas de las formas en que se organiza y significa la bici-movilidad en dicha ciudad. Realizamos una etnografía distribuid…
A performative and genealogical approach to the liminal subject’s social sustenance
Heating ecologies
Political Technologies of Memory
This article contributes to understanding the role of technologies during political violence and in transitional justice contexts, studying a case that was contemporaneous with the transnational construction of human rights activism. Examining documentation technologies that sustained nonviolent civic resistance to state terrorism during Chile’s Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), the article highlights the role of technology in creating t…
Reports on categorization and classification of human rights violations in Chile (1974–1978)
This study analyzes socio-discursive categories used to define and classify the political violence exerted in Chilean human rights reports (1974–1978) to understand the emergence of the repertoire of repression and the construction of victimhood as a social recognition and communicative process in Latin America during the 1970s. These reports are addressed as a professional discursive genre produced by non-governmental organizations whose purpose…
Resistance to Political Violence in Latin America
Las comisiones de la verdad en la batalla de la memoria
Objective/context: Based on the framework of the battle of memory, this article examines the dispute (2014-2018) regarding the state embargo of documentation and information from 2004 from Chile’s National Commission on Political Prisoners and Torture and its resistance to a collective that can question the embargo, triggering a legislative discussion. Methodology: In this article, we apply a procedural and pragmatic focus to a body of qualitativ…
No Politics, No Society
Studies show that the state plays a positive role in shaping conditions for entrepreneurship and promoting economic growth through entrepreneurial activity. However, the question of how state intervention in entrepreneurship is justified in neoliberal regimes has received scant attention, although it can legitimize public policies. We examine the entrepreneurial slant of the Production and Commerce Development Corporation of Chile (CORFO), which …
Human Rights Archives
Human rights archives are collections of records documenting systematic, state‐led abuses of power through violence. They serve to assist those affected and to denounce state violence by recognizing the damage caused, recording the truth, and helping victims' reparation claims. In addition to serving as evidence in criminal prosecutions, these archives preserve victims' memories and assist pedagogy relating to past atrocities. For anthropology, h…
Factualize and commensurate human rights violations and organized violence
International audience
Silencios y verdad oficial. Operaciones de silenciamiento en el caso de la Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura de Chile
This article explores silence as a constitutive and constituent practice of the production of official and state truth regarding serious human rights violations, using the case of Chile as a starting point. We focus, in particular, on Chile's National Commission on Political Prisoners and Torture (2003-2005), and its counterpart, the Advisory Commission for the Qualification of Disappeared Detainees, Political Executed, and Victims of Political P…
Life Admin, with Oriana Bernasconi
University in Chile, joins UncommonSense to talk about a more serious side of the term -that of paperwork documenting human rights abuse -as well as a living, breathing archive and the analogue spreadsheet
Introduction
This dossier proposes to explore the uprising as a critical event provoking unprecedented processes of political subjectivation and opening the field of action and influence to subjects who had been kept on the margins of the construction of history. This introduction begins by describing the social uprising that occurred in Chile in 2019, the largest cycle of protests since the end of the Pinochet era. It then discusses the notions of critical e…
Mapuche Anticolonial Politics and Chile's Social Uprising
This essay examines milestones in the life history of one subject, Mauricio Lepin, and his involvement in the Chilean social uprising. By exploring the encounter of his trajectory with the uprising, the essay reveals under-explored dimensions of the anticolonial character of this critical event in Chile's history of the present. Lepin's case shows the entanglement of a long history of dispossession and resistance of the Mapuche people with a biog…
A Politics of Care from the Margins of Chile's Social Uprising
This essay addresses the Chilean social uprising of 2019 through the experiences of Marta and Juan, two residents of the peripheries of Santiago, who became involved in this event despite having no previous experience of participation in social and political organizations. It explores this event's strength in triggering contentious actions on the urban margins, and repression by the police-criminal apparatus of the state. Delving into the ethical…
Multitude and Memory in the Chilean Social Uprising
Between October 2019 and March 2020 Chile experienced the most massive and heavily repressed cycle of social protests in its post-dictatorship (1973-90) history. This essay explores the social uprising as a critical event of political subjectivation through the story of Ricardo, an ordinary young medical technician with no background of political affiliation who fully immersed himself in the forefront of confrontation with the police in the groun…
Permanence et reprise des actes écrits qui ont dénoncé par la voie judiciaire les atrocités de la dictature chilienne
Face à l'oralité et à la théâtralité des procès, le rôle de l'écriture dans le traitement judiciaire des atrocités massives n'a reçu que peu d'attention dans la littérature sur la justice transitionnelle, ou a été relégué à celui de source d'information. Le présent article souligne le rôle de l'écriture juridique dans la quête de justice dans des affaires de crimes contre l'humanité au fil du temps. En examinant la performativité des écrits jurid…
Cartographic narratives of spatial memories
Space is central to the political, moral and affective inscription of violence as well as the infra-politics of subaltern groups. This article introduces a collaborative cartographic methodology to document and disseminate the spatial dynamics of dictatorial repression, its resistance and legacy, focusing on mass raids in working-class neighbourhoods during Chile’s Pinochet era (1973–1990). Through mapping interviews and cartographic exhibitions …
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