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Spada, Alice (2021)

Women and the Chilean Spring of 2019: Understanding Motivations, Dynamics of Social Protest, and Female Participation

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)
The wave of social protests hitting Chile since October 2019 disclosed a socio-economic reality made of inequalities, far from Chile’s ostensible façade of a stable democracy and exemplary model of economic growth in Latin America. This BA thesis explores historical and contingent motivations behind the social upheaval, investigating how feelings of relative depravation triggered Chileans to take action. Specifically, the study focuses on women’s perception of their group’s socio-economic disadvantage with related resentment and complaints, and on how protests dynamics favoured or hindered female participation in protest events.
Social protests
Relative Deprivation Theory
Women as a minority group
Socio-economic inequality
Social justice
Chile
Chilean unrest.
Author
Spada, Alice
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Latin America
Supervisors
Solheim, H.A.S.
ECTS Credits
15 ECTS
Language
en