Faculty
Verónica Schild
Doctoral Membership
Department of Political Science; former Director CSTC
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Education: BA, George Mason; MA, PhD, University of Toronto
* On sabbatical January 1 2012 - December 31 2012 *
Research Interests
Research brings contemporary critical theories to bear on topics like citizenship, social movements, and culture and state formation with a geographical focus on Chile and the Southern Cone of Latin America.
Two of her more recent essays are: Die Freiheit der Frauen und gesellschaftlicher Fortschritt. Feministinen, der Staat und die Armen bei der Schaffung neoliberaler Gouvernementalität. In Olaf Kaltmeir, Jens Kastner, Elisabeth Tuider, eds. Neoliberalismus, Autonomie, Widerstand: Soziale Bewegungen in Lateinamerika. Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2004; Empowering Consumer Citizens or Governing Poor Female Subjects? The Institutionalization of “Self-Development” in the Chilean Social Policy Field. Journal of Consumer Culture 7, 2 (2007); in progress, Contradictions of Emancipation: The Women's Movement, Culture, and the State in Contemporary Chile (Duke University Press, forthcoming).
Theses Supervised:
- Andrew Robb: Hegemony and Governmentality, MA thesis, 2006
