The next session of the The Future of Europe in a Global Context series will focus on Chile. We are hosting a lecture of our affiliated iASK fellow Igor Stipić from Bosnia and Herzegovina who will present the results of his recent field research in Santiago. The event will take place on Tuesday, 15th of November at 2 pm on Zoom and it will be streamed on iASK’s Facebook page. We are sending a Zoom link upon request to anyone who wish to participate in the whole event that comprises the lecture and discussion. Registration is possible until Monday, November 14th till 12:00pm.
Igor Stipić holds an MA in Political and Social Studies from University of Alberto Hurtado in Chile and MA in Political Economy from University of Economics in Prague. After finishing his master’s studies, Igor worked as a Research Fellow at iASK and lectured at the University of Pannonia, Koszeg Campus for four years. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Political Anthropology at the University of Regensburg and Leibniz Leibniz Science Campus: Europe and America in the Modern World.
The title of Igor’s lecture is “The State and its Students: Narratives of Chile among Rebelled Students at Lower-Class High School in Santiago”. In this talk, he will present his ethnographic research on a lower-class high school in Santiago that he conducted between March and November 2022. In a notch, through his research, he intended to discuss how can research on the state benefit from an ethnographic approach that tackles a state question from situated knowledge of rebelled students at Liceo de Aplicación high school. Taking the nation-state as an invention of occidental modernity that is essentially reproduced through schooling, he asks how student understandings of social class, race, and ethnicity problematizes official story and hegemonic body politic of contemporary Chile. Understanding student politics as practices of worldmaking, he demonstrates how subaltern student accounts contest state-led narratives by bringing to the surface social fractures that are left out of the official discourse. The research is completed through an ethnographic study at Liceo de Aplicación high school, where he explored representations of the state and its imagined community that emerge within the world of protesting students through oral history, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation. In this sense, relevance of the project goes beyond region and nation-state in question, and it communicates directly with the wider global audience interested in questions of subaltern politics, critical pedagogy, and contested state formation. The lecture will be held in English.