A Vergara Del Solar
Biographic Data
| ID | 21601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Vergara Del Solar |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Vergara |
| FAMILY NAME | Del Solar |
| SIGNATURE | DEL SOLAR A V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Diego Portales University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7823-3769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La regulación de los «funerales de alto riesgo» en Chile: Gubernamentalidad y política del duelo
Este artículo examina la Ley 21.717 en Chile, conocida como ley de «funerales de alto riesgo», como un dispositivo sociojurídico que securitiza ciertas formas de duelo público visible y reordena el espacio urbano mediante una racionalidad de penalidad preventiva. Metodológicamente, aplica el enfoque WPR (What’s the Problem Represented to be?) de Carol Bacchi al texto legal, su historia legislativa , con el fin de reconstruir la representación del…
The Emergence of Children’s Rights in the Government of Children: A Case Study in Contemporary Chile
This article analyses the emergence of children’s rights as a field of political rationalities in contemporary Chile, focusing on the parliamentary debate of Law No. 21,430 on the Guarantees and Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents (2022). Based on the Foucauldian notion of governmentality and the viewpoint of Critical Children’s Rights Studies, it examines how the ideas of protection, autonomy and parental authority are construct…
New House, New Furniture, New Room: Children’s Pandemic Landscapes of Care in Chile
Standing at the intersection between geographies of care and children’s geographies, we present three ethnographic stories (emerging from three ethnographic studies) through which we argue that, as a result of pandemic confinement in Chile, children’s places within their landscapes of care shifted in a twofold sense: First, given the de-mobilisation and spatial concentration of spaces of care at home, children’s place became closer to adults,’ su…
Interlocked: The ethics of care and the ethics of justice in children's discourses on the parent–child relationship in Chile
The article begins with a discussion of the contribution of childhood studies to our understanding of children's ethics, taking into account feminist inputs to the debate over the ethics of care and the ethics of justice. Then, based on two qualitative studies carried out in Chile with children between 10 and 13 years of age, the article shows the emphasis the children place on reciprocal care between parents and children. This concern for recipr…
My Home Quarantine on an App: A Qualitative Visual Analysis of Changes in Family Routines During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Chile
Ambivalencias culturales sobre el divorcio en discursos de niños, niñas y adultos
(analytical)This article illustrates some of the cultural ambivalence about parental divorce in the discourse produced by children and adults using conceptual tools provided by British cultural studies. Triangular group interviews were conducted with people from different socio-economic strata in Santiago, Chileand discourse analysis was conducted. The results evidenced discourses with more fixed and conventional articulations that are coherent w…
Ustedes no vuelven hasta el próximo año ¡porque la mamá dijo!” Ethopolítica del cuidado, mujeres y gobierno del riesgo en pandemia Covid 19
El artículo se pregunta por el despliegue de las vidas cotidianas de mujeres durante la pandemia Covid-19, centrándose en el lugar que ocupan en el cuidado doméstico y la gestión del riesgo en clave ethopolítica. Desde una perspectiva fenomenológica y método cualitativo los resultados confirman la centralidad de las mujeres en el despliegue de estrategias para sostener la vida. Destaca la importancia del contexto de conflictividad social-política…
The street, children and parents: The views of children from Santiago de Chile
In this article, we present the partial results of a broader qualitative study carried out in the city of Santiago de Chile between 2016 and early 2020. In particular, we analyse the discourses found in 12 group interviews with Chilean children – aged 10 and 11, and of three socioeconomic strata (upper-middle, middle and low) – about the relationship they establish with the street’s space and the negotiations they conduct with their parents about…
Imaginaries of the Pandemic in Chile: A Conceptual‐Empirical Discussion
This article aims to reconstruct the social imaginaries of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) in Chile. We seek to understand how families interpret their experience confronting the pandemic by identifying four main aspects: (a) the COVID‐19 pandemic, (b) working and learning, (c) health and (d) family life. Following Habermas' distinction between lifeworld and social systems, we consider these issues as constituting the social imaginary of life…
Untangling the Latin American child: Heterogeneous temporalities of Latin American "modern" childhoods
In this article, we analyse childhood and modernity as both analytical tools for understanding Latin American childhoods and as hegemonic categories, central to establishing social hierarchies and identity formations. Instead of taking for granted modern/traditional or North/South as heuristic categories that guide understandings of commonalities, differences, and singularities, we explore the usefulness of temporality. We propose a focus on how …
Being a parent and being a child in Chile today: The relational construction of subject positions in a neoliberal context
Parents’ economic efforts in the discourses of Chilean children: Ethical reflexivity and reciprocal care
This article, written from the perspective of Childhood Studies, questions the image, common in the press and daily life, of childhood as remote from the world of work and the economy. It also challenges the view of children as being immoderate in matters of family expenditure. Two discursive studies of Chilean children reveal instead a complex ethical reflexivity in how they think about the economic efforts of parents, whom they see as overwhelm…
Experiencias contradictorias y demandantes: La infancia y la adultez en la perspectiva de niños y niñas de Santiago de Chile
(descriptivo): En este artículo, se presentan los resultados de un estudio que exploró los discursos acerca de la infancia y la adultez de niños y niñas de distintos estratos socioeconómicos de Santiago, a partir de entrevistas abiertas realizadas a grupos mixtos y de un sólo sexo (niñas y niños varones). Se da cuenta, en este marco, de discursos que, para hablar de infancia y adultez, construyen oposiciones: juego versus trabajo, libertad versus…
The Cultural Politics of Childhood: Public Policies in Post‐authoritarian Chile
This article offers an interpretation of the cultural politics of childhood during the second decade of post‐authoritarian democracy in Chile (2001–2010), as sustained by the discourse of public policies in this area. I understand cultural politics as the combination of cultural contexts, social practices and political processes through which childhood is constructed in different societies and different times James and James (2008b). I develop a …
Los niños como sujetos sociales: El aporte de los Nuevos Estudios Sociales de la infancia y el Análisis Crítico del Discurso
Al contrario de las creencias comunes, los niños(as) poseen una capacidad de interpretar de manera sutil su entorno y posicionarse de manera crítica respecto a los modos de vida y trabajo presentes en la sociedad chilena actual. En términos conceptuales, esta investigación muestra que la infancia puede ser entendida desde perspectivas distintas a los modelos psicoevolutivos, develando al niño(a) como un sujeto complejo que se muestra como efecto …
Public policy discourses on childhood during Chilean post-authoritarian democracy: A case of discursive colonization by the language of the free market
Based on the approach to language of Critical Discourse Analysis, this article explores the discursive construction of childhood in public policies during post-authoritarian Chilean democracy. Focusing on a key goal-setting policy document, the study notes how past and present discourses, including elements of the classical evolutionist view of childhood, the more historically recent children's rights perspective, and that of the social investmen…
Crianças como agentes políticos: Táticas cotidianas de resistência em meninas chilenas de ambiente socioeconômico médio
A partir da pergunta sobre o que é para eles a infância ea idade adulta, um grupo de meninas diz aos pais e cenas do cotidiano com os colegas do sexo masculino que não pretende rejeitar ou transformar a ordem hegemônica segurando tais relações, mas que os coloca em um lugar da alteridade e confronto. Depois de uma breve discussão sobre a possibilidade de ação política das crianças, usamos o conceito de "resistência" à conta, por meio da metodolog…
Childhood in Children's Eyes: Analysis of a Discourse among Middle‐Income Sectors in S antiago, C hile
This article describes the results of a qualitative study, based on the perspective of critical discourse analysis, which explores the discourse on childhood of 10‐ and 11‐year‐old boys and girls from a middle‐income socioeconomic sector in S antiago, C hile. Among the findings, a complex and relational notion of childhood is highlighted. The children perceive themselves as overwhelmed and subjected to excessive demands by grown‐ups, and conceive…
Representation of Childhood in Advertising Discourse. A Case Study of the Advertising Industry in Chile
This paper discusses the main characteristics of advertising discourse in relation to childhood and its engagement with children’s view of this stage of life, in line with «new social studies» and critical discourse analysis. This discussion seeks to complement the functionalist perspective of communication studies in the field of advertising content analysis by incorporating a discursive focus, taking into account contextual issues that may cond…
Representation of Childhood in Advertising Discourse. A Case Study of the Advertising Industry in Chile
El artículo analiza las principales características que presenta el discurso de la publicidad respecto de la infancia, y su relación con la perspectiva que los niños tienen de esta etapa de la vida, tomado como referencia los «nuevos estudios sociales» y el análisis crítico de discursos. Con esto, se busca complementar la perspectiva funcionalista de los estudios de comunicación en el ámbito del análisis de contenido, incorporando un enfoque disc…
TV in the daily life of children: The case of Santiago de Chile
This article presents the preliminary results of an investigation on the meaning of television in the daily life of children, which corresponds to a study carried out on with boys and girls of a medium socio-economic level from Santiago of Chile. The diverse uses and senses that children assign to television are explored. In addition, the way in which they use and appropriate television programming is also analyzed. Along the same lines, it is re…
Untangling the Latin American child: Heterogeneous temporalities of Latin American "modern" childhoods
In this article, we analyse childhood and modernity as both analytical tools for understanding Latin American childhoods and as hegemonic categories, central to establishing social hierarchies and identity formations. Instead of taking for granted modern/traditional or North/South as heuristic categories that guide understandings of commonalities, differences, and singularities, we explore the usefulness of temporality. We propose a focus on how …
The street, children and parents: The views of children from Santiago de Chile
In this article, we present the partial results of a broader qualitative study carried out in the city of Santiago de Chile between 2016 and early 2020. In particular, we analyse the discourses found in 12 group interviews with Chilean children – aged 10 and 11, and of three socioeconomic strata (upper-middle, middle and low) – about the relationship they establish with the street’s space and the negotiations they conduct with their parents about…
Parents’ economic efforts in the discourses of Chilean children: Ethical reflexivity and reciprocal care
This article, written from the perspective of Childhood Studies, questions the image, common in the press and daily life, of childhood as remote from the world of work and the economy. It also challenges the view of children as being immoderate in matters of family expenditure. Two discursive studies of Chilean children reveal instead a complex ethical reflexivity in how they think about the economic efforts of parents, whom they see as overwhelm…
Public policy discourses on childhood during Chilean post-authoritarian democracy: A case of discursive colonization by the language of the free market
Based on the approach to language of Critical Discourse Analysis, this article explores the discursive construction of childhood in public policies during post-authoritarian Chilean democracy. Focusing on a key goal-setting policy document, the study notes how past and present discourses, including elements of the classical evolutionist view of childhood, the more historically recent children's rights perspective, and that of the social investmen…
Representation of Childhood in Advertising Discourse. A Case Study of the Advertising Industry in Chile
This paper discusses the main characteristics of advertising discourse in relation to childhood and its engagement with children’s view of this stage of life, in line with «new social studies» and critical discourse analysis. This discussion seeks to complement the functionalist perspective of communication studies in the field of advertising content analysis by incorporating a discursive focus, taking into account contextual issues that may cond…
TV in the daily life of children: The case of Santiago de Chile
This article presents the preliminary results of an investigation on the meaning of television in the daily life of children, which corresponds to a study carried out on with boys and girls of a medium socio-economic level from Santiago of Chile. The diverse uses and senses that children assign to television are explored. In addition, the way in which they use and appropriate television programming is also analyzed. Along the same lines, it is re…
Representation of Childhood in Advertising Discourse. A Case Study of the Advertising Industry in Chile
This paper discusses the main characteristics of advertising discourse in relation to childhood and its engagement with children’s view of this stage of life, in line with «new social studies» and critical discourse analysis. This discussion seeks to complement the functionalist perspective of communication studies in the field of advertising content analysis by incorporating a discursive focus, taking into account contextual issues that may cond…
Representation of Childhood in Advertising Discourse. A Case Study of the Advertising Industry in Chile
El artículo analiza las principales características que presenta el discurso de la publicidad respecto de la infancia, y su relación con la perspectiva que los niños tienen de esta etapa de la vida, tomado como referencia los «nuevos estudios sociales» y el análisis crítico de discursos. Con esto, se busca complementar la perspectiva funcionalista de los estudios de comunicación en el ámbito del análisis de contenido, incorporando un enfoque disc…
Childhood in Children's Eyes: Analysis of a Discourse among Middle‐Income Sectors in S antiago, C hile
This article describes the results of a qualitative study, based on the perspective of critical discourse analysis, which explores the discourse on childhood of 10‐ and 11‐year‐old boys and girls from a middle‐income socioeconomic sector in S antiago, C hile. Among the findings, a complex and relational notion of childhood is highlighted. The children perceive themselves as overwhelmed and subjected to excessive demands by grown‐ups, and conceive…
The Cultural Politics of Childhood: Public Policies in Post‐authoritarian Chile
This article offers an interpretation of the cultural politics of childhood during the second decade of post‐authoritarian democracy in Chile (2001–2010), as sustained by the discourse of public policies in this area. I understand cultural politics as the combination of cultural contexts, social practices and political processes through which childhood is constructed in different societies and different times James and James (2008b). I develop a …
Los niños como sujetos sociales: El aporte de los Nuevos Estudios Sociales de la infancia y el Análisis Crítico del Discurso
Al contrario de las creencias comunes, los niños(as) poseen una capacidad de interpretar de manera sutil su entorno y posicionarse de manera crítica respecto a los modos de vida y trabajo presentes en la sociedad chilena actual. En términos conceptuales, esta investigación muestra que la infancia puede ser entendida desde perspectivas distintas a los modelos psicoevolutivos, develando al niño(a) como un sujeto complejo que se muestra como efecto …
Public policy discourses on childhood during Chilean post-authoritarian democracy: A case of discursive colonization by the language of the free market
Based on the approach to language of Critical Discourse Analysis, this article explores the discursive construction of childhood in public policies during post-authoritarian Chilean democracy. Focusing on a key goal-setting policy document, the study notes how past and present discourses, including elements of the classical evolutionist view of childhood, the more historically recent children's rights perspective, and that of the social investmen…
Crianças como agentes políticos: Táticas cotidianas de resistência em meninas chilenas de ambiente socioeconômico médio
A partir da pergunta sobre o que é para eles a infância ea idade adulta, um grupo de meninas diz aos pais e cenas do cotidiano com os colegas do sexo masculino que não pretende rejeitar ou transformar a ordem hegemônica segurando tais relações, mas que os coloca em um lugar da alteridade e confronto. Depois de uma breve discussão sobre a possibilidade de ação política das crianças, usamos o conceito de "resistência" à conta, por meio da metodolog…
Experiencias contradictorias y demandantes: La infancia y la adultez en la perspectiva de niños y niñas de Santiago de Chile
(descriptivo): En este artículo, se presentan los resultados de un estudio que exploró los discursos acerca de la infancia y la adultez de niños y niñas de distintos estratos socioeconómicos de Santiago, a partir de entrevistas abiertas realizadas a grupos mixtos y de un sólo sexo (niñas y niños varones). Se da cuenta, en este marco, de discursos que, para hablar de infancia y adultez, construyen oposiciones: juego versus trabajo, libertad versus…
Being a parent and being a child in Chile today: The relational construction of subject positions in a neoliberal context
Parents’ economic efforts in the discourses of Chilean children: Ethical reflexivity and reciprocal care
This article, written from the perspective of Childhood Studies, questions the image, common in the press and daily life, of childhood as remote from the world of work and the economy. It also challenges the view of children as being immoderate in matters of family expenditure. Two discursive studies of Chilean children reveal instead a complex ethical reflexivity in how they think about the economic efforts of parents, whom they see as overwhelm…
Ambivalencias culturales sobre el divorcio en discursos de niños, niñas y adultos
(analytical)This article illustrates some of the cultural ambivalence about parental divorce in the discourse produced by children and adults using conceptual tools provided by British cultural studies. Triangular group interviews were conducted with people from different socio-economic strata in Santiago, Chileand discourse analysis was conducted. The results evidenced discourses with more fixed and conventional articulations that are coherent w…
Ustedes no vuelven hasta el próximo año ¡porque la mamá dijo!” Ethopolítica del cuidado, mujeres y gobierno del riesgo en pandemia Covid 19
El artículo se pregunta por el despliegue de las vidas cotidianas de mujeres durante la pandemia Covid-19, centrándose en el lugar que ocupan en el cuidado doméstico y la gestión del riesgo en clave ethopolítica. Desde una perspectiva fenomenológica y método cualitativo los resultados confirman la centralidad de las mujeres en el despliegue de estrategias para sostener la vida. Destaca la importancia del contexto de conflictividad social-política…
The street, children and parents: The views of children from Santiago de Chile
In this article, we present the partial results of a broader qualitative study carried out in the city of Santiago de Chile between 2016 and early 2020. In particular, we analyse the discourses found in 12 group interviews with Chilean children – aged 10 and 11, and of three socioeconomic strata (upper-middle, middle and low) – about the relationship they establish with the street’s space and the negotiations they conduct with their parents about…
Imaginaries of the Pandemic in Chile: A Conceptual‐Empirical Discussion
This article aims to reconstruct the social imaginaries of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) in Chile. We seek to understand how families interpret their experience confronting the pandemic by identifying four main aspects: (a) the COVID‐19 pandemic, (b) working and learning, (c) health and (d) family life. Following Habermas' distinction between lifeworld and social systems, we consider these issues as constituting the social imaginary of life…
Untangling the Latin American child: Heterogeneous temporalities of Latin American "modern" childhoods
In this article, we analyse childhood and modernity as both analytical tools for understanding Latin American childhoods and as hegemonic categories, central to establishing social hierarchies and identity formations. Instead of taking for granted modern/traditional or North/South as heuristic categories that guide understandings of commonalities, differences, and singularities, we explore the usefulness of temporality. We propose a focus on how …
My Home Quarantine on an App: A Qualitative Visual Analysis of Changes in Family Routines During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Chile
New House, New Furniture, New Room: Children’s Pandemic Landscapes of Care in Chile
Standing at the intersection between geographies of care and children’s geographies, we present three ethnographic stories (emerging from three ethnographic studies) through which we argue that, as a result of pandemic confinement in Chile, children’s places within their landscapes of care shifted in a twofold sense: First, given the de-mobilisation and spatial concentration of spaces of care at home, children’s place became closer to adults,’ su…
Interlocked: The ethics of care and the ethics of justice in children's discourses on the parent–child relationship in Chile
The article begins with a discussion of the contribution of childhood studies to our understanding of children's ethics, taking into account feminist inputs to the debate over the ethics of care and the ethics of justice. Then, based on two qualitative studies carried out in Chile with children between 10 and 13 years of age, the article shows the emphasis the children place on reciprocal care between parents and children. This concern for recipr…
La regulación de los «funerales de alto riesgo» en Chile: Gubernamentalidad y política del duelo
Este artículo examina la Ley 21.717 en Chile, conocida como ley de «funerales de alto riesgo», como un dispositivo sociojurídico que securitiza ciertas formas de duelo público visible y reordena el espacio urbano mediante una racionalidad de penalidad preventiva. Metodológicamente, aplica el enfoque WPR (What’s the Problem Represented to be?) de Carol Bacchi al texto legal, su historia legislativa , con el fin de reconstruir la representación del…
The Emergence of Children’s Rights in the Government of Children: A Case Study in Contemporary Chile
This article analyses the emergence of children’s rights as a field of political rationalities in contemporary Chile, focusing on the parliamentary debate of Law No. 21,430 on the Guarantees and Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents (2022). Based on the Foucauldian notion of governmentality and the viewpoint of Critical Children’s Rights Studies, it examines how the ideas of protection, autonomy and parental authority are construct…
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