Samanta Alarcón-Arco
Biographic Data
| ID | 235587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samanta Alarcón-Arco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samanta |
| FAMILY NAME | Alarcón-Arco |
| SIGNATURE | ALARCÓN-ARCO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2597-1378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Living together and apart: Reimagining care in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile
Based on an ethnography with children and families in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile, this article explores how care is practiced amid urban violence and inequality. Through a combination of drawing and walking methods, it examines how children and parents negotiate risk, absence, and structural neglect in their efforts to sustain relational life. In dialogue with Science and Technology Studies, it shows how care emerges through fr…
Merit as an Attitude: Chilean School Communities’ Repertoires in Chile and the Perception of the “Good Student” in a Post-pandemic Scenario
Noticing, Caring, and Hauntings: Environmental Practices and the Struggle for Alternative Futures
This article explores environmental care practices and individuals' relationships with their surroundings in Chile, emphasizing how the unequal burden of care, particularly among women, shapes responses to the climate crisis. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies and Posthumanist thinking, we advocate for cultivating the art of noticing – developing affective and ethical attunements with the environment that inspire novel care practices. Howe…
Higher education trajectories of migrants and the role of age of arrival: Evidence from native and migrant students in Chile
Higher education is a powerful tool for migrant integration into destination countries. This paper presents an empirical comparison between native and migrant students in Chile, focusing on their trajectory through different transitions: high school graduation, performance on university entrance exams, and decision to enroll in technical or university higher education. Results show that, when controlling for school performance, natives are more l…
Spectralities of ADHD: Hauntological Diagnosis Amidst Agency, Politics and Pedagogies
Hauntology has become an increasingly alluring concept in social sciences to reflect upon everyday life and how subjects dwell upon scenarios pervaded not only by the potency of the actual but also the haunting of the past and the virtual. Drawing on the concept of 'hauntology', we inquire about recurring temporalities and spectrality themes concerning the 'controversial' diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Chile. Usin…
Normative becoming in the digital sphere: WhatsApp parents’ groups in Chilean education
Digital communicational technologies, such as WhatsApp, have been part of schools both before and during the pandemic. This article explores the normative emergence of being a student, a parent, and a teacher in the use of parents’ WhatsApp groups. In Chile, this digital application is widely used by the population, and it is particularly important for school communities. Based on interviews conducted with teachers and parents, and a theoretical …
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools
This article draws upon findings from fieldwork conducted with Chilean mental health practitioners and school staff to explore how children's mental health diagnoses can be used in the school setting as a particular rationale to mobilise and convey new forms of care practices (Mol, The logic of care: Health and the problem of patient choice, 2008). Inspired by the framing of care as an interrelational, interdependent and more-than-human affair pr…
Care during exceptional times: Results of the Cuidar study on the Covid-19 pandemic in Chile
This article presents some results of “CUIDAR; study on times, forms, and spaces of care at home during the pandemic,” a research project that explored how the pandemic and the subsequent policies implemented by the Chilean government transformed and disrupted the spatialities, temporalities, and practices of care within the households. To do so, we designed a web survey that draws inspiration from care theories emerging from the field of Science…
Im-posibilidades del cuidado: Reconstrucciones del cuidar en la pandemia de la covid-19 a partir de la experiencia de mujeres en Chile
El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo el incremento de las labores de cuidado, producto de la pandemia, y el quiebre de la red de cuidados han recaído significativamente sobre las mujeres. Al reconocer la crisis de los cuidados, que ha privilegiado un modelo individualista por sobre uno social o comunitario, la pandemia de la covid-19 revela las sobrecargas de un tipo de sujeto y las imposibilidades para pensar otras formas de cuidar. Medi…
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools
This article draws upon findings from fieldwork conducted with Chilean mental health practitioners and school staff to explore how children's mental health diagnoses can be used in the school setting as a particular rationale to mobilise and convey new forms of care practices (Mol, The logic of care: Health and the problem of patient choice, 2008). Inspired by the framing of care as an interrelational, interdependent and more-than-human affair pr…
Im-posibilidades del cuidado: Reconstrucciones del cuidar en la pandemia de la covid-19 a partir de la experiencia de mujeres en Chile
El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo el incremento de las labores de cuidado, producto de la pandemia, y el quiebre de la red de cuidados han recaído significativamente sobre las mujeres. Al reconocer la crisis de los cuidados, que ha privilegiado un modelo individualista por sobre uno social o comunitario, la pandemia de la covid-19 revela las sobrecargas de un tipo de sujeto y las imposibilidades para pensar otras formas de cuidar. Medi…
Spectralities of ADHD: Hauntological Diagnosis Amidst Agency, Politics and Pedagogies
Hauntology has become an increasingly alluring concept in social sciences to reflect upon everyday life and how subjects dwell upon scenarios pervaded not only by the potency of the actual but also the haunting of the past and the virtual. Drawing on the concept of 'hauntology', we inquire about recurring temporalities and spectrality themes concerning the 'controversial' diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Chile. Usin…
Living together and apart: Reimagining care in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile
Based on an ethnography with children and families in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile, this article explores how care is practiced amid urban violence and inequality. Through a combination of drawing and walking methods, it examines how children and parents negotiate risk, absence, and structural neglect in their efforts to sustain relational life. In dialogue with Science and Technology Studies, it shows how care emerges through fr…
Noticing, Caring, and Hauntings: Environmental Practices and the Struggle for Alternative Futures
This article explores environmental care practices and individuals' relationships with their surroundings in Chile, emphasizing how the unequal burden of care, particularly among women, shapes responses to the climate crisis. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies and Posthumanist thinking, we advocate for cultivating the art of noticing – developing affective and ethical attunements with the environment that inspire novel care practices. Howe…
Care during exceptional times: Results of the Cuidar study on the Covid-19 pandemic in Chile
This article presents some results of “CUIDAR; study on times, forms, and spaces of care at home during the pandemic,” a research project that explored how the pandemic and the subsequent policies implemented by the Chilean government transformed and disrupted the spatialities, temporalities, and practices of care within the households. To do so, we designed a web survey that draws inspiration from care theories emerging from the field of Science…
Im-posibilidades del cuidado: Reconstrucciones del cuidar en la pandemia de la covid-19 a partir de la experiencia de mujeres en Chile
El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo el incremento de las labores de cuidado, producto de la pandemia, y el quiebre de la red de cuidados han recaído significativamente sobre las mujeres. Al reconocer la crisis de los cuidados, que ha privilegiado un modelo individualista por sobre uno social o comunitario, la pandemia de la covid-19 revela las sobrecargas de un tipo de sujeto y las imposibilidades para pensar otras formas de cuidar. Medi…
Care during exceptional times: Results of the Cuidar study on the Covid-19 pandemic in Chile
This article presents some results of “CUIDAR; study on times, forms, and spaces of care at home during the pandemic,” a research project that explored how the pandemic and the subsequent policies implemented by the Chilean government transformed and disrupted the spatialities, temporalities, and practices of care within the households. To do so, we designed a web survey that draws inspiration from care theories emerging from the field of Science…
Normative becoming in the digital sphere: WhatsApp parents’ groups in Chilean education
Digital communicational technologies, such as WhatsApp, have been part of schools both before and during the pandemic. This article explores the normative emergence of being a student, a parent, and a teacher in the use of parents’ WhatsApp groups. In Chile, this digital application is widely used by the population, and it is particularly important for school communities. Based on interviews conducted with teachers and parents, and a theoretical …
Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools
This article draws upon findings from fieldwork conducted with Chilean mental health practitioners and school staff to explore how children's mental health diagnoses can be used in the school setting as a particular rationale to mobilise and convey new forms of care practices (Mol, The logic of care: Health and the problem of patient choice, 2008). Inspired by the framing of care as an interrelational, interdependent and more-than-human affair pr…
Higher education trajectories of migrants and the role of age of arrival: Evidence from native and migrant students in Chile
Higher education is a powerful tool for migrant integration into destination countries. This paper presents an empirical comparison between native and migrant students in Chile, focusing on their trajectory through different transitions: high school graduation, performance on university entrance exams, and decision to enroll in technical or university higher education. Results show that, when controlling for school performance, natives are more l…
Spectralities of ADHD: Hauntological Diagnosis Amidst Agency, Politics and Pedagogies
Hauntology has become an increasingly alluring concept in social sciences to reflect upon everyday life and how subjects dwell upon scenarios pervaded not only by the potency of the actual but also the haunting of the past and the virtual. Drawing on the concept of 'hauntology', we inquire about recurring temporalities and spectrality themes concerning the 'controversial' diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Chile. Usin…
Merit as an Attitude: Chilean School Communities’ Repertoires in Chile and the Perception of the “Good Student” in a Post-pandemic Scenario
Noticing, Caring, and Hauntings: Environmental Practices and the Struggle for Alternative Futures
This article explores environmental care practices and individuals' relationships with their surroundings in Chile, emphasizing how the unequal burden of care, particularly among women, shapes responses to the climate crisis. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies and Posthumanist thinking, we advocate for cultivating the art of noticing – developing affective and ethical attunements with the environment that inspire novel care practices. Howe…
Living together and apart: Reimagining care in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile
Based on an ethnography with children and families in a segregated neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile, this article explores how care is practiced amid urban violence and inequality. Through a combination of drawing and walking methods, it examines how children and parents negotiate risk, absence, and structural neglect in their efforts to sustain relational life. In dialogue with Science and Technology Studies, it shows how care emerges through fr…
Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Pandemic (2 works)