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Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda

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ID103010
NAMEPamela Zapata-Sepúlveda
GIVEN NAMESPamela
FAMILY NAMEZapata-Sepúlveda
SIGNATUREZAPATA-SEPÚLVEDA P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tarapacá
ORCID0000-0003-3633-5673
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3
  • Experiencias de las parteras aymaras: Un aporte al patrimonio cultural en una región transfronteriza al norte de Chile

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Ximena Vega-Donoso et al.•ARTICLE•Desde el Sur Revista de Ciencias…•2026

    Este artículo examina las experiencias de las parteras tradicionales aymaras (usuyiris) en la región fronteriza de Arica y Parinacota, ubicada en el extremo norte de Chile. El objetivo fue identificar y sistematizar sus prácticas medicinales ancestrales relacionadas con el embarazo, parto y puerperio, con el propósito de validarlas y poner en valor los saberes ancestrales. Con un enfoque cualitativo dentro de un paradigma pospositivista, el estud…

  • Diversidades culturales y priorización curricular en pandemia: Posibilidades desde el caso chileno

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, María Loreto Mora-Olate et al.•ARTICLE•Revista Electrónica Educare•2025

    Objective. To describe the prioritization process undergone by the Chilean school curriculum as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, weighing its scope in terms of addressing cultural diversity, the reactions it has provoked, and the possibilities for critically examining the curriculum. Methodology. Using a qualitative design of documentary analysis, a corpus of 11 documents issued by the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) between 2020 and 2024 is an…

  • Interpretive Autoethnography as a Methodology to Promote Well-Being Among Qualitative Women Researchers in Chilean Academia

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Mirliana Ramírez-Pereira et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 22

    This article emerges from a collaborative autoethnographic exercise carried out by three Chilean women scholars who, from different territories and trajectories, reflect on how neoliberal policies, audit culture, and gender inequalities shape their experiences in higher education. Through personal narratives, we illuminate the intersections between our professional and affective lives-motherhood, singlehood, caregiving, writing, intellectual work…

  • Promotion of Labor Insertion Through the Build Your Professional Career (CCP) Model: A Critical Qualitative Perspective for the Improvement of Professional and Life Projects

    Open Access•Magdalena Suárez-Ortega, Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2024•References: 5

    Advances in the development of the Reinvent Yourself project are presented, the purpose of which is to validate the CCP (Build your Professional Career) model for job improvement in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia in southern Spain. The CCP model is an integrative and inclusive proposal within the framework of professional career development. Through training in transversal competencies and career management, the CCP model aims to favor the…

  • Tears of Gratitude Are Flowing From My Eyes; You Touch My Soul

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Magdalena Suárez-Ortega•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2024

    With love and gratitude, months since we learned of his departure, we meet in Seville to say goodbye and remember our beloved mentor, Professor Norman Denzin. We appreciate the invitation to say goodbye to him in the journal that he created, a space for the dissemination of qualitative research, from where he supported, in an inclusive way, those who are dedicated to this research in Ibero-America. As members of the A Day in Spanish and Portugues…

  • Pertinencia cultural del currículo en escuelas de la trifrontera norte de Chile: Dilemas y desafíos

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, María Loreto Mora-Olate et al.•ARTICLE•ESTUDIOS FRONTERIZOS•2023

    Se analizan contenidos alusivos a migración, respeto hacia la diversidad cultural, nacionalismo y chilenidad en currículos de las asignaturas historia, geografía y ciencias sociales y lenguaje y comunicación/lengua y literatura, implementados en escuelas urbanas y rurales de la región trifronteriza de Arica y Parinacota (norte de Chile) con mayor concentración de estudiantes de origen andino o afro e hijos nacidos en Chile de padres inmigrantes. …

  • Female Academics in Higher Education: Conducting Qualitative Research against All Odds

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Carmen Araneda-Guirriman et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    This piece brings together the experiences of four Chilean researchers and one Spanish researcher with different professional backgrounds (psychology, sociology, nursing, and education), who conduct qualitative inquiry from other approaches, moments, and gender-sensitive topics of interest in the border regions of Arica and Parinacota, and Tarapacá, both in northern Chile; the capital Santiago; and in Andalucía, southern Spain. In this paper, the…

  • Adverse childhood experiences and psychopathology in adolescents from northern Chile: The Moderating Role of the Attachment Style

    Open Access•Cristián Pinto-Cortez, Cristián Pinto‐Cortez et al.•ARTICLE•Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica•2023•References: 74

    Background Identifying the underlying mechanisms through which adverse childhood experiences affect (ACEs) the mental health of adolescents is of paramount importance for disease prevention in later stages of life. Objective The present study examines the relationship between ACEs and psychopathology in adolescents from northern Chile and how attachment style (abandonment anxiety and intimacy avoidance) may moderate this relationship. A total of …

  • Professional Development in Academia: Co-performing Voices From Feminist Research

    Open Access•Magdalena Suárez-Ortega, Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2022

    Starting from a critical, provocative, and progressive dialog articulated from different authors concerned about professional development in academia and qualitative and feminist research, while from the experience of field work with a group of academic informants participating in their search, co-performing their voices, in this paper, we reflect as academic women about our experience in the university, contributing to identify difficulties and …

  • Qualitative Female Researchers in Academia: Challenges and Contradictions

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Magdalena Suárez-Ortega•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    This piece reflects on how training in critical qualitative research impacts the academic work and lives of female qualitative researchers. In a higher education system dominated by quantitative logics of productivity and daily life, the possibilities of promotion and permanence in the academy are conditioned. Therefore, we consider necessary to better understand the experiences of crossing academic cultures that impact both, in first person and …

  • Qualitative Inquiry in the Neoliberal Public Sphere: Contesting Accountability Metrics

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2021

    Based on a critical and constructive dialogue that I articulate drawing from different authors concerned about the differentiated value that is given to academic publications at present, I reflect from the standpoint of a particular Latin American context on how we can meet the demands of governments regarding education and science, contributing to the development of our universities while complying with international and local quality standards,…

  • The Overcoming of the Attacks on Freedom of Speech Through Qualitative Research

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2020

    In this essay, I reflect on the work of publishing contemporary qualitative research articles in academic journals in Spanish that are easily accessible to the communities that are being researched. Specifically, I reflect on the possibilities of doing qualitative research in a “successful” way, meeting the demands of productivity of Chilean universities (paper published in WoS journals, quartiles, etc.), which is necessary to maintain and develo…

  • Historia, Nacionalismo Y Discriminación en Las Escuelas De La Frontera Norte De Chile

    Open Access•Carlos Mondaca-Rojas, Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda et al.•ARTICLE•Diálogo andino•2020

    El artculo analiza la presencia diacrnica de componentes nacionalistas en el sistema educativo de la

  • Researching Sensitive Topics in Sensitive Zones: Exploring Silences, 'The Normal,' and Tolerance in Chile

    Open Access•Mariano Cornejo, Gabriela Rubilar et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 42

    Based on their research experiences, three female Chilean researchers from the capital city and the north of the country reflect on political trauma and violence, poverty and exclusion, and the processes underlying the mobility of Colombian women in Chile's northern border. In all of these research areas, 'the sensitive' not only becomes a research topic but also confronts both researchers and participants as the main characters of a particular a…

  • The Role and Everyday Life Experiences of Latin American Female Researchers in Academia

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2019•References: 3

    I wrote this essay a year before the current context of feminist student strike in Chile. A year ago, it was a time in which there was silence and fear. I understood the natural tendency of living with the different ways of gender violence that is normalized and taken for granted. In a society which is dominated by male power, and where we could find shelter in what the North defines as Resistance voices, this text arises from inquiries and contr…

  • What do we Want for the Next 10 Years: Different Actors of the Icqi Community Answering This Question Within the Framework of the 10th Anniversary of Icqi

    Open Access•Aitor Gómez, Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2018

    This article introduces the special issue to celebrate the 11th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. The theme of the congress was “Constructing a New Critical Qualitative Inquiry.” The best way to introduce this special issue is with a T.S. Eliot quote Norman Denzin used to welcome the ICQI participants to the congress in 2015: “We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to …

  • Interpretive Autoethnography as a Way of Social Transformation in Academic Teaching and Learning Spaces in Chile

    Open Access•Mirliana Ramírez-Pereira, Michelle Espinoza et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    This article arose from our interest in investigating our own teaching practices at three universities in Northern Chile. The aim was to generate a deeper understanding of our roles as models for our students, and by using the methodology of the heart, we have joined our three voices of Latin American women researchers to describe the interpretative autoethnography and performative text as ways of researching in education, health, and psychology …

  • The Power of Saying the Normally "Unsaid" as an Act of Empowering a Woman's Voice in the Academia and the Fictional Parallel Side Behind This Power in a Global Era

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    In this text, I want to reflect about the impact of the process of my Autoethnography performance training from 2011 in my work/research/life with . . . as a teacher, a researcher, and as a woman standing from a contemporary QI conducting research and teaching about the unsaid topics of the new movements of migration of people in the border of northern Chile from/in and outside the academia. Color, violence, historical influence and Andean migrat…

  • My “Third World” in Three Words

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•CHAPTER•Global South Ethnographies•2016

    Este trabajo busca reflexionar sobre el acto de escribir [auto]etnografía interpretative en una lengua extranjera, los conflictos a la hora de redactar y dar sentido a palabras que biográfica y emocionalmente se han sentido y se sienten en español, asuntos como escribir en tres palabras, o un párrafo en una oración, traducir según las normas de texto performativo y el acto de escribir como la construcción de un tercer mundo, son desarrollados en …

  • About My Sugar-Free Life and Other Lies

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2016

    This presentation explains my thoughts, reflections, and feelings about writing interpretive autoethnographic texts in a foreign language. This includes my discovery of myself as a northern Chilean woman who grew up and survived by resisting colonized daily realities. I resisted the oppression and the atrocities that occurred during the Pinochet regime from 1973 through 1990

  • Ten Years of Critical Qualitative Research at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

    Open Access•Aitor Gómez, Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2016

  • The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Peter Stanley et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research Journal•2016•References: 4

    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a collaborative (auto)ethnography that has emerged from the meeting of four academic researchers working with and from the heart in various Latin American contexts. Design/methodology/approach – Our “I’s” have mingled with our very varied participations in different themes, latitudes, and disciplines – health, education and psychosocial approaches. We have worked, variously, in both English and Sp…

  • One Continent, Three Words, and a Dream: Making Interpretive [Auto]ethnography in a Particular Place in Northern Chile

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    Through a three words poem, I share my constructed color voice developed from looking for and sensing my 'I' through the lens of worldwide international students in my learning experiences in different international "white" universities. At the same time, my 'I' is embodied from my fieldwork with Colombian women refugees or seeking for refuge, and as a Latin American woman living in northern Chile. In this way, interpretive [auto] ethnography is …

  • Past and Present Time in Qualitative Inquiry: Looking and Dreaming On the Future in a Particular Place in Northern Chile

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 1

    This essay concerns my reflection, thoughts, and feelings from the foundations and movements between my heartfelt autobiographical experiences and the fieldwork with Colombian women refugees or asking for refugee status in the current Chilean society. Inspired from the Three Words Workshop, as Performative Writing of Healing and Resistance, I wish to connect my I from a humanity way with the international audience to talk about "Otherness" racism…

  • Critical Inquiry as a Way to Break the Glass Between "Normal" Practices in the Chilean Public Academia and the Case of Color Latin American Migrant Students in Our Classrooms: A Call to Humanize, a Ca…

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Pamela Zapata Sepulveda et al.•ARTICLE•Diálogo andino•2015

    This essay concerns the critical voices of 3 women researchers that examine and reflect about the Chilean educational system using the case of color Latin American students, in the context and from a current perspective of their public universities in Chile. Public policies in education, integration and segregation, challenges and current problems present or that could ocurr in our classrooms are included in this piece using experimental writing …

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  • Researching Sensitive Topics in Sensitive Zones: Exploring Silences, 'The Normal,' and Tolerance in Chile

    Open Access•Mariano Cornejo, Gabriela Rubilar et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 42

    Based on their research experiences, three female Chilean researchers from the capital city and the north of the country reflect on political trauma and violence, poverty and exclusion, and the processes underlying the mobility of Colombian women in Chile's northern border. In all of these research areas, 'the sensitive' not only becomes a research topic but also confronts both researchers and participants as the main characters of a particular a…

  • One Continent, Three Words, and a Dream: Making Interpretive [Auto]ethnography in a Particular Place in Northern Chile

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    Through a three words poem, I share my constructed color voice developed from looking for and sensing my 'I' through the lens of worldwide international students in my learning experiences in different international "white" universities. At the same time, my 'I' is embodied from my fieldwork with Colombian women refugees or seeking for refuge, and as a Latin American woman living in northern Chile. In this way, interpretive [auto] ethnography is …

  • Past and Present Time in Qualitative Inquiry: Looking and Dreaming On the Future in a Particular Place in Northern Chile

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 1

    This essay concerns my reflection, thoughts, and feelings from the foundations and movements between my heartfelt autobiographical experiences and the fieldwork with Colombian women refugees or asking for refugee status in the current Chilean society. Inspired from the Three Words Workshop, as Performative Writing of Healing and Resistance, I wish to connect my I from a humanity way with the international audience to talk about "Otherness" racism…

  • It All Depends on the Beholder: Decolonizing the Concept of Gender-Based Violence Against Aymara Women in Northern Chile

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Vanessa Jara-Labarthé et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2014•Cited by: 2•References: 5

    This article arose out of the interests and concerns of a group of Chilean social science researchers (psychology, social work, and philosophy) who wanted to reflect upon and analyze the phenomenon of gender-based domestic violence among urban Aymara women residents in northern Chile in a critical and interdisciplinary manner. After working on two research projects funded by a Spanish state agency, whose objective was the diagnosis of indexes and…

  • Breaking My Academic Silence to Start Again: Making Sense of Why I Am Here, Moving From the Thin to Thick. Thinking About Trauma and Loss

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2012•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    This essay seeks to reflect upon, rescue, make sense of, incorporate my "I" in my research experiences with Chilean survivors of political imprisonment. In an attempt to free and recover my "I"-quiet until today-to re-think, remember, and to build while I am standing in the middle of the process, I will tell some "moments" and situations I experienced during my research with some of the members of this Chilean group. I will use storytelling, coun…

  • Interpretive Autoethnography as a Methodology to Promote Well-Being Among Qualitative Women Researchers in Chilean Academia

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Mirliana Ramírez-Pereira et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 22

    This article emerges from a collaborative autoethnographic exercise carried out by three Chilean women scholars who, from different territories and trajectories, reflect on how neoliberal policies, audit culture, and gender inequalities shape their experiences in higher education. Through personal narratives, we illuminate the intersections between our professional and affective lives-motherhood, singlehood, caregiving, writing, intellectual work…

  • Female Academics in Higher Education: Conducting Qualitative Research against All Odds

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Carmen Araneda-Guirriman et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    This piece brings together the experiences of four Chilean researchers and one Spanish researcher with different professional backgrounds (psychology, sociology, nursing, and education), who conduct qualitative inquiry from other approaches, moments, and gender-sensitive topics of interest in the border regions of Arica and Parinacota, and Tarapacá, both in northern Chile; the capital Santiago; and in Andalucía, southern Spain. In this paper, the…

  • Qualitative Female Researchers in Academia: Challenges and Contradictions

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Magdalena Suárez-Ortega•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    This piece reflects on how training in critical qualitative research impacts the academic work and lives of female qualitative researchers. In a higher education system dominated by quantitative logics of productivity and daily life, the possibilities of promotion and permanence in the academy are conditioned. Therefore, we consider necessary to better understand the experiences of crossing academic cultures that impact both, in first person and …

  • Interpretive Autoethnography as a Way of Social Transformation in Academic Teaching and Learning Spaces in Chile

    Open Access•Mirliana Ramírez-Pereira, Michelle Espinoza et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    This article arose from our interest in investigating our own teaching practices at three universities in Northern Chile. The aim was to generate a deeper understanding of our roles as models for our students, and by using the methodology of the heart, we have joined our three voices of Latin American women researchers to describe the interpretative autoethnography and performative text as ways of researching in education, health, and psychology …

  • The Power of Saying the Normally "Unsaid" as an Act of Empowering a Woman's Voice in the Academia and the Fictional Parallel Side Behind This Power in a Global Era

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    In this text, I want to reflect about the impact of the process of my Autoethnography performance training from 2011 in my work/research/life with . . . as a teacher, a researcher, and as a woman standing from a contemporary QI conducting research and teaching about the unsaid topics of the new movements of migration of people in the border of northern Chile from/in and outside the academia. Color, violence, historical influence and Andean migrat…

  • From the Struggle for Education to the Transformation of Society: Challenges and Hopes in the Chile of the 21st Century

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Víctor Jiménez-Benítez et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    We are three voices at a public university in northern Chile. This essay is about how social science take into account or ignore the current political tension produced by social movements against neoliberalism . We have three stories (student activist, student federation leader, and scholar in motion) that reveal the current state of public education in Chile, which has been determined by marketplace logic and neoliberalism. We discuss the relati…

  • Breaking My Academic Silence to Start Again: Making Sense of Why I Am Here, Moving From the Thin to Thick. Thinking About Trauma and Loss

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2012•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    This essay seeks to reflect upon, rescue, make sense of, incorporate my "I" in my research experiences with Chilean survivors of political imprisonment. In an attempt to free and recover my "I"-quiet until today-to re-think, remember, and to build while I am standing in the middle of the process, I will tell some "moments" and situations I experienced during my research with some of the members of this Chilean group. I will use storytelling, coun…

  • From the Struggle for Education to the Transformation of Society: Challenges and Hopes in the Chile of the 21st Century

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Víctor Jiménez-Benítez et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    We are three voices at a public university in northern Chile. This essay is about how social science take into account or ignore the current political tension produced by social movements against neoliberalism . We have three stories (student activist, student federation leader, and scholar in motion) that reveal the current state of public education in Chile, which has been determined by marketplace logic and neoliberalism. We discuss the relati…

  • The Pink-wheeled Bike—Takes Two, Three, and Four

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Anne B Reinertsen et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2014

    This is a collaborative postdoctoral story. We were visiting scholars at the International Institute of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our stories are about the bike with the pink tires that we shared to ride around campus. We thought while we rode and reflected upon our different realities in our countries, our research work, and our dreams. We constituted a safe and inspiratory network, and this has had a…

  • It All Depends on the Beholder: Decolonizing the Concept of Gender-Based Violence Against Aymara Women in Northern Chile

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Vanessa Jara-Labarthé et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2014•Cited by: 2•References: 5

    This article arose out of the interests and concerns of a group of Chilean social science researchers (psychology, social work, and philosophy) who wanted to reflect upon and analyze the phenomenon of gender-based domestic violence among urban Aymara women residents in northern Chile in a critical and interdisciplinary manner. After working on two research projects funded by a Spanish state agency, whose objective was the diagnosis of indexes and…

  • At the End of the Tunnel, We Must See the Light: Moving From a Dark Place in the Past (Trauma and Loss) to a Bright, Shiny and Hopeful Time (Memory and Redress)

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2014•References: 15

    This essay represents my process of thinking, rethinking, and assessing trauma and loss from my "I" as a woman who grew up during a dictatorship, as a scholar today in a Chilean public university. Feeling and listening is a form of creating knowledge in the process of studying trauma in Chilean former political prisoners of Pinochet's regime. I start this essay by thinking about past and static concepts of trauma and loss that were developed in a…

  • Critical Inquiry as a Way to Break the Glass Between "Normal" Practices in the Chilean Public Academia and the Case of Color Latin American Migrant Students in Our Classrooms: A Call to Humanize, a Ca…

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Pamela Zapata Sepulveda et al.•ARTICLE•Diálogo andino•2015

    This essay concerns the critical voices of 3 women researchers that examine and reflect about the Chilean educational system using the case of color Latin American students, in the context and from a current perspective of their public universities in Chile. Public policies in education, integration and segregation, challenges and current problems present or that could ocurr in our classrooms are included in this piece using experimental writing …

  • My “Third World” in Three Words

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•CHAPTER•Global South Ethnographies•2016

    Este trabajo busca reflexionar sobre el acto de escribir [auto]etnografía interpretative en una lengua extranjera, los conflictos a la hora de redactar y dar sentido a palabras que biográfica y emocionalmente se han sentido y se sienten en español, asuntos como escribir en tres palabras, o un párrafo en una oración, traducir según las normas de texto performativo y el acto de escribir como la construcción de un tercer mundo, son desarrollados en …

  • About My Sugar-Free Life and Other Lies

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2016

    This presentation explains my thoughts, reflections, and feelings about writing interpretive autoethnographic texts in a foreign language. This includes my discovery of myself as a northern Chilean woman who grew up and survived by resisting colonized daily realities. I resisted the oppression and the atrocities that occurred during the Pinochet regime from 1973 through 1990

  • Ten Years of Critical Qualitative Research at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

    Open Access•Aitor Gómez, Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2016

  • The traveling researchers’ sisterhood: Four female voices from Latin America in a collaborative autoethnography

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Peter Stanley et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research Journal•2016•References: 4

    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a collaborative (auto)ethnography that has emerged from the meeting of four academic researchers working with and from the heart in various Latin American contexts. Design/methodology/approach – Our “I’s” have mingled with our very varied participations in different themes, latitudes, and disciplines – health, education and psychosocial approaches. We have worked, variously, in both English and Sp…

  • One Continent, Three Words, and a Dream: Making Interpretive [Auto]ethnography in a Particular Place in Northern Chile

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    Through a three words poem, I share my constructed color voice developed from looking for and sensing my 'I' through the lens of worldwide international students in my learning experiences in different international "white" universities. At the same time, my 'I' is embodied from my fieldwork with Colombian women refugees or seeking for refuge, and as a Latin American woman living in northern Chile. In this way, interpretive [auto] ethnography is …

  • Past and Present Time in Qualitative Inquiry: Looking and Dreaming On the Future in a Particular Place in Northern Chile

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 1

    This essay concerns my reflection, thoughts, and feelings from the foundations and movements between my heartfelt autobiographical experiences and the fieldwork with Colombian women refugees or asking for refugee status in the current Chilean society. Inspired from the Three Words Workshop, as Performative Writing of Healing and Resistance, I wish to connect my I from a humanity way with the international audience to talk about "Otherness" racism…

  • The Power of Saying the Normally "Unsaid" as an Act of Empowering a Woman's Voice in the Academia and the Fictional Parallel Side Behind This Power in a Global Era

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    In this text, I want to reflect about the impact of the process of my Autoethnography performance training from 2011 in my work/research/life with . . . as a teacher, a researcher, and as a woman standing from a contemporary QI conducting research and teaching about the unsaid topics of the new movements of migration of people in the border of northern Chile from/in and outside the academia. Color, violence, historical influence and Andean migrat…

  • What do we Want for the Next 10 Years: Different Actors of the Icqi Community Answering This Question Within the Framework of the 10th Anniversary of Icqi

    Open Access•Aitor Gómez, Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2018

    This article introduces the special issue to celebrate the 11th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. The theme of the congress was “Constructing a New Critical Qualitative Inquiry.” The best way to introduce this special issue is with a T.S. Eliot quote Norman Denzin used to welcome the ICQI participants to the congress in 2015: “We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to …

  • Interpretive Autoethnography as a Way of Social Transformation in Academic Teaching and Learning Spaces in Chile

    Open Access•Mirliana Ramírez-Pereira, Michelle Espinoza et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    This article arose from our interest in investigating our own teaching practices at three universities in Northern Chile. The aim was to generate a deeper understanding of our roles as models for our students, and by using the methodology of the heart, we have joined our three voices of Latin American women researchers to describe the interpretative autoethnography and performative text as ways of researching in education, health, and psychology …

  • Researching Sensitive Topics in Sensitive Zones: Exploring Silences, 'The Normal,' and Tolerance in Chile

    Open Access•Mariano Cornejo, Gabriela Rubilar et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 42

    Based on their research experiences, three female Chilean researchers from the capital city and the north of the country reflect on political trauma and violence, poverty and exclusion, and the processes underlying the mobility of Colombian women in Chile's northern border. In all of these research areas, 'the sensitive' not only becomes a research topic but also confronts both researchers and participants as the main characters of a particular a…

  • The Role and Everyday Life Experiences of Latin American Female Researchers in Academia

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2019•References: 3

    I wrote this essay a year before the current context of feminist student strike in Chile. A year ago, it was a time in which there was silence and fear. I understood the natural tendency of living with the different ways of gender violence that is normalized and taken for granted. In a society which is dominated by male power, and where we could find shelter in what the North defines as Resistance voices, this text arises from inquiries and contr…

  • The Overcoming of the Attacks on Freedom of Speech Through Qualitative Research

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2020

    In this essay, I reflect on the work of publishing contemporary qualitative research articles in academic journals in Spanish that are easily accessible to the communities that are being researched. Specifically, I reflect on the possibilities of doing qualitative research in a “successful” way, meeting the demands of productivity of Chilean universities (paper published in WoS journals, quartiles, etc.), which is necessary to maintain and develo…

  • Historia, Nacionalismo Y Discriminación en Las Escuelas De La Frontera Norte De Chile

    Open Access•Carlos Mondaca-Rojas, Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda et al.•ARTICLE•Diálogo andino•2020

    El artculo analiza la presencia diacrnica de componentes nacionalistas en el sistema educativo de la

  • Qualitative Inquiry in the Neoliberal Public Sphere: Contesting Accountability Metrics

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2021

    Based on a critical and constructive dialogue that I articulate drawing from different authors concerned about the differentiated value that is given to academic publications at present, I reflect from the standpoint of a particular Latin American context on how we can meet the demands of governments regarding education and science, contributing to the development of our universities while complying with international and local quality standards,…

  • Professional Development in Academia: Co-performing Voices From Feminist Research

    Open Access•Magdalena Suárez-Ortega, Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•International Review of…•2022

    Starting from a critical, provocative, and progressive dialog articulated from different authors concerned about professional development in academia and qualitative and feminist research, while from the experience of field work with a group of academic informants participating in their search, co-performing their voices, in this paper, we reflect as academic women about our experience in the university, contributing to identify difficulties and …

  • Qualitative Female Researchers in Academia: Challenges and Contradictions

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Magdalena Suárez-Ortega•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    This piece reflects on how training in critical qualitative research impacts the academic work and lives of female qualitative researchers. In a higher education system dominated by quantitative logics of productivity and daily life, the possibilities of promotion and permanence in the academy are conditioned. Therefore, we consider necessary to better understand the experiences of crossing academic cultures that impact both, in first person and …

  • Pertinencia cultural del currículo en escuelas de la trifrontera norte de Chile: Dilemas y desafíos

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, María Loreto Mora-Olate et al.•ARTICLE•ESTUDIOS FRONTERIZOS•2023

    Se analizan contenidos alusivos a migración, respeto hacia la diversidad cultural, nacionalismo y chilenidad en currículos de las asignaturas historia, geografía y ciencias sociales y lenguaje y comunicación/lengua y literatura, implementados en escuelas urbanas y rurales de la región trifronteriza de Arica y Parinacota (norte de Chile) con mayor concentración de estudiantes de origen andino o afro e hijos nacidos en Chile de padres inmigrantes. …

  • Female Academics in Higher Education: Conducting Qualitative Research against All Odds

    Open Access•Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda, Carmen Araneda-Guirriman et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    This piece brings together the experiences of four Chilean researchers and one Spanish researcher with different professional backgrounds (psychology, sociology, nursing, and education), who conduct qualitative inquiry from other approaches, moments, and gender-sensitive topics of interest in the border regions of Arica and Parinacota, and Tarapacá, both in northern Chile; the capital Santiago; and in Andalucía, southern Spain. In this paper, the…

  • Adverse childhood experiences and psychopathology in adolescents from northern Chile: The Moderating Role of the Attachment Style

    Open Access•Cristián Pinto-Cortez, Cristián Pinto‐Cortez et al.•ARTICLE•Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica•2023•References: 74

    Background Identifying the underlying mechanisms through which adverse childhood experiences affect (ACEs) the mental health of adolescents is of paramount importance for disease prevention in later stages of life. Objective The present study examines the relationship between ACEs and psychopathology in adolescents from northern Chile and how attachment style (abandonment anxiety and intimacy avoidance) may moderate this relationship. A total of …

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