Sebastián Smart
Biographic Data
| ID | 4155653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastián Smart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastián |
| FAMILY NAME | Smart |
| SIGNATURE | SMART S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3924-702X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Archives and Algorithms: The Plancondor.org Experience and the Human Rights Potential of New Technologies
∞ This article explores the transformative role of new technologies in documenting human rights violations. While much has been written about the promise of new tools in amplifying truth seeking and memorialization, this article examines how technologies are reshaping three key stages of documentation: data collection, analysis and visualization. Grounded in the authors’ experience building the plancondor.org platform, the article offers a reflec…
Port politics and the city: Valparaíso’s trajectories from contestation to consensus over Terminal 2
Desplazamiento forzado interno en Chile (1973-1990): Consecuencias económicas y sociales de una invisibilidad histórica
Este artículo examina el fenómeno del desplazamiento forzado interno durante la dictadura chilena (1973- 1990), argumentando que esta violación de derechos humanos ha sido invisibilizada tanto en los discursos oficialescomoenlosprocesosdejusticiatransicionaldelpaís.Atravésdelestudiodetrescasosemblemáticos, que reflejan diversas tipologías del fenómeno —el Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli (COFOMAP), las erradicaciones de campamentos urbano…
Corporate Power, Conflict and Transitional Justice: Addressing Business Human Rights Abuses in the Digital Era
This article examines how concentrated corporate power in the technology sector reshapes repression and human rights harm, arguing that an integrated Business and Human Rights (BHR) and Transitional Justice (TJ) approach is needed. It identifies three persistent gaps in BHR practice—regulatory fragmentation, limited access to remedy and Global North dominance—and demonstrates how TJ principles, particularly victim-centred participation, Global So…
La intersección de la inteligencia artificial y los derechos humanos: Un análisis desde el constructivismo y el realismo en la política exterior chilena
Este estudio examina la intersección entre la inteligencia artificial (IA) y los derechos humanos en la política exterior chilena desde las perspectivas del constructivismo y el realismo. Se destaca cómo Chile ha integrado los derechos humanos en su identidad nacional y su política exterior, proyectándose como un defensor global de estos principios. Sin embargo, se identifican desafíos estratégicos relacionados con la dependencia tecnológica y la…
Justice in Contention: The Dynamics of Legal Mobilisation in Caimanes’ Environmental Struggle
This paper examines legal mobilisation in socio-environmental movements through the Caimanes case, a Chilean community opposing the Los Pelambres mining project. It integrates structural and agency perspectives, highlighting the community's adaptation to political and legal opportunities and focusing on distributive environmental justice. The study identifies two protest cycles: the first seeking compensation, leading to community divisions, and …
Expanding and Contracting the UN Guiding Principles: An Analysis of Recent Inter-American Human Rights Court Decisions
In 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) decided two cases for advancing the increasing jurisprudence on the implementation of human rights and business standards, yet there is still a gap to fill. Despite the important development with regards to the State obligation to supervise business operations, the decisions do not introduce further definitions of companies’ responsibilities on human rights nor the potential of creating m…
Completing the transitional justice narrative in Latin America
Pinochet's Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by Force
With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by Force uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing on the behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectives in terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. This book makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the Chilean dictatorship and explains their links with the r…
The political economy of Latin American conflicts over mining extractivism
Bridging human rights and social determinants of health: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to do a systematic assessment and testing of identified human rights norms alongside social determinant approaches in relation to identified health issues of concern in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) to show how social determinants and human rights frameworks improve population health. Design/methodology/approach To do so, in the first part the authors analyze the inequa…
The political economy of Latin American conflicts over mining extractivism
Bridging human rights and social determinants of health: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to do a systematic assessment and testing of identified human rights norms alongside social determinant approaches in relation to identified health issues of concern in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) to show how social determinants and human rights frameworks improve population health. Design/methodology/approach To do so, in the first part the authors analyze the inequa…
Bridging human rights and social determinants of health: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to do a systematic assessment and testing of identified human rights norms alongside social determinant approaches in relation to identified health issues of concern in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) to show how social determinants and human rights frameworks improve population health. Design/methodology/approach To do so, in the first part the authors analyze the inequa…
The political economy of Latin American conflicts over mining extractivism
Pinochet's Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by Force
With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by Force uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing on the behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectives in terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. This book makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the Chilean dictatorship and explains their links with the r…
Completing the transitional justice narrative in Latin America
Expanding and Contracting the UN Guiding Principles: An Analysis of Recent Inter-American Human Rights Court Decisions
In 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) decided two cases for advancing the increasing jurisprudence on the implementation of human rights and business standards, yet there is still a gap to fill. Despite the important development with regards to the State obligation to supervise business operations, the decisions do not introduce further definitions of companies’ responsibilities on human rights nor the potential of creating m…
La intersección de la inteligencia artificial y los derechos humanos: Un análisis desde el constructivismo y el realismo en la política exterior chilena
Este estudio examina la intersección entre la inteligencia artificial (IA) y los derechos humanos en la política exterior chilena desde las perspectivas del constructivismo y el realismo. Se destaca cómo Chile ha integrado los derechos humanos en su identidad nacional y su política exterior, proyectándose como un defensor global de estos principios. Sin embargo, se identifican desafíos estratégicos relacionados con la dependencia tecnológica y la…
Justice in Contention: The Dynamics of Legal Mobilisation in Caimanes’ Environmental Struggle
This paper examines legal mobilisation in socio-environmental movements through the Caimanes case, a Chilean community opposing the Los Pelambres mining project. It integrates structural and agency perspectives, highlighting the community's adaptation to political and legal opportunities and focusing on distributive environmental justice. The study identifies two protest cycles: the first seeking compensation, leading to community divisions, and …
Desplazamiento forzado interno en Chile (1973-1990): Consecuencias económicas y sociales de una invisibilidad histórica
Este artículo examina el fenómeno del desplazamiento forzado interno durante la dictadura chilena (1973- 1990), argumentando que esta violación de derechos humanos ha sido invisibilizada tanto en los discursos oficialescomoenlosprocesosdejusticiatransicionaldelpaís.Atravésdelestudiodetrescasosemblemáticos, que reflejan diversas tipologías del fenómeno —el Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli (COFOMAP), las erradicaciones de campamentos urbano…
Corporate Power, Conflict and Transitional Justice: Addressing Business Human Rights Abuses in the Digital Era
This article examines how concentrated corporate power in the technology sector reshapes repression and human rights harm, arguing that an integrated Business and Human Rights (BHR) and Transitional Justice (TJ) approach is needed. It identifies three persistent gaps in BHR practice—regulatory fragmentation, limited access to remedy and Global North dominance—and demonstrates how TJ principles, particularly victim-centred participation, Global So…
Archives and Algorithms: The Plancondor.org Experience and the Human Rights Potential of New Technologies
∞ This article explores the transformative role of new technologies in documenting human rights violations. While much has been written about the promise of new tools in amplifying truth seeking and memorialization, this article examines how technologies are reshaping three key stages of documentation: data collection, analysis and visualization. Grounded in the authors’ experience building the plancondor.org platform, the article offers a reflec…
Port politics and the city: Valparaíso’s trajectories from contestation to consensus over Terminal 2
Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Accountability (3 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Human rights (3 works) · International Law and Human Rights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (3 works) · Politics (3 works)