Browsing by Author "García, Macarena"

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    Boutiques and Prêt-à-porter in Santiago de Chile: a formula for women’s modernity (1967–1973)
    (2020) Álvarez Caselli, Pedro; Miranda Vidal, Josefina; García, Macarena
    In the second half of the 1960s, prêt-à-porter (ready-to-wear) fashion was established in Chile. As an alternative to haute couture (high fashion), prêt-à-porter brought an eagerness for modernisation that was reflected in the setting up of a network of women-led boutiques, which developed strongly between 1967 and 1973. This article first examines the precedents that allowed for the creation of a ‘local fashion system’ that promoted collective work around trades such as knitting and dressmaking. It also analyses the arrangement of a circuit of boutiques in the comuna of Providencia, a strategic sector of Santiago de Chile (the capital city) that fostered the dynamics of social gathering. Later, the article describes the profile of the designer-entrepreneurs whose work was attuned to a female consumer segment that aimed to access a new formula of the modernising bourgeoisie. It also reassesses the rise of a movement called Moda Autóctona, which distanced itself from European fashion and was supported by the government during the socialist regime of Salvador Allende. Lastly, it tackles the eventual dismantling of this network of women’s fashion stores as a resultof the installation of a military dictatorship in Chile.
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    Discursive Fluctuations of the School Library Program in Chile: A Critical Policy Analysis
    (De Gruyter Saur, 2023) García, Macarena; Velázquez-Burgos, Rodrigo; Véliz, Soledad; Oyarzún, Juan de Dios; Saona Urmeneta, María Ignacia
    In Latin America, school libraries were founded based on the hopes of fostering democracy and reducing social and educational inequalities. Nevertheless, current dominant discourses relate school libraries more closely to the demand to improve academic results. In this article, we explore what we consider to be an intensification of neoliberal discourses about school libraries by studying the case of the Learning Resource Centres (Centros de Recursos para el Aprendizaje, CRA) in Chile, a program that has been exemplary compared to other Latin American countries. With a Critical Policy Analysis (Bacchi 2009. Analysing Policy: What's the Problem Represented to be? Australia: Pearson, 2012. Engaging with Carol Bacchi. Strategic Interventions and Exchanges. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2015. "The Turn to Problematization: Political Implications of Contrasting Interpretive and Poststructural Adaptations."Open Journal of Political Science 5 (1): 1-12), we question the problems that the CRA produce and aim to solve and their transformations through time. We focus on four public policy documents tracing how school libraries are related to the global educational reforms of the late 1980s and the 1990s and how they are assessed in the 2010s. We read the documents sketching out three exclusions that, we argue, lay the foundation for a neoliberal intensification of the CRA program: the exclusions of pedagogical innovation, of other learning resources beyond books, and of the local community.
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    Photoelectrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide on Quantum-Dot-Modified Electrodes by Electric Field Directed Layer-by-Layer Assembly Methodology
    (2015) Guzmán, Diego; Isaacs Casanova, Mauricio; Osorio Román, Igor; García, Macarena; Astudillo, Jason; Ohlbaum, Macarena