BIO
Marta Infante is an associate professor of the Faculty of Education at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the Director of the Learning and Development Department. She is interested in Critical disability studies; Qualitative research including ethnography, narrative inquiry, discourse analysis, Inclusive education; Queer, Feminist, Postcolonial and Crip studies, Sociology of Emotions/Affect and Posthuman and DisHuman studies.
TITLE
“Dis/ability construction and new materialities in ‘Chile Awoke’”
ABSTRACT
According to both Human Rights Watch and the United Nations, during both the period of militarization and after the restoration of civil rights regarding the protests of the 2019 social movement "Chile Awoke", extensive human rights violations occurred. With respect to state violence, during the first month of protests, reports estimate twenty people had lost their life, thousands were injured, dozens suffered torture and rape and more than 200 people suffered ocular injuries leading to either partial or total vision loss (NIHR 2019). The concept of health emergency was used in Chilean and international discourses to represent the infrequent pattern of injuries among protesters. Surprisingly, although those cases generated significant public attention, the concept of disability was persistently absent in the media coverage and earlier academic analysis of the crisis. Moreover, the political causes in the material disablement of the protesters injured by police and the military remain radically hidden. Within this context, the purpose of this presentation is to problematize posthuman agency in Chilean disability construction, I map the public representation of ocular injuries and their related production of human and non-human materialities. Particularly, I use the theory of assemblages (Deleuze and Guattari 2004; Nail 2017) as a methodological tool to promote the understanding of social processes (e.g. disability construction) as the result of material and semiotic components that have agential capacities.
EVENT
NYU Global Posthuman 2020
Marta Infante is an associate professor of the Faculty of Education at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the Director of the Learning and Development Department. She is interested in Critical disability studies; Qualitative research including ethnography, narrative inquiry, discourse analysis, Inclusive education; Queer, Feminist, Postcolonial and Crip studies, Sociology of Emotions/Affect and Posthuman and DisHuman studies.
TITLE
“Dis/ability construction and new materialities in ‘Chile Awoke’”
ABSTRACT
According to both Human Rights Watch and the United Nations, during both the period of militarization and after the restoration of civil rights regarding the protests of the 2019 social movement "Chile Awoke", extensive human rights violations occurred. With respect to state violence, during the first month of protests, reports estimate twenty people had lost their life, thousands were injured, dozens suffered torture and rape and more than 200 people suffered ocular injuries leading to either partial or total vision loss (NIHR 2019). The concept of health emergency was used in Chilean and international discourses to represent the infrequent pattern of injuries among protesters. Surprisingly, although those cases generated significant public attention, the concept of disability was persistently absent in the media coverage and earlier academic analysis of the crisis. Moreover, the political causes in the material disablement of the protesters injured by police and the military remain radically hidden. Within this context, the purpose of this presentation is to problematize posthuman agency in Chilean disability construction, I map the public representation of ocular injuries and their related production of human and non-human materialities. Particularly, I use the theory of assemblages (Deleuze and Guattari 2004; Nail 2017) as a methodological tool to promote the understanding of social processes (e.g. disability construction) as the result of material and semiotic components that have agential capacities.
EVENT
NYU Global Posthuman 2020
