Having in mind a personal question about the status of affairs within Chilean management educational practices and its critical possibilities, I engaged in the exploration of its historical and social conditions of (im)possibilities against the backdrop of Critical Management Studies field, Critical Management Education stream as well as the traditional Latin American radical philosophy. To make sense about these themes and debates I informed my research by the theoretical developments of Laclau and Mouffe's Discourse Theory, which played the role of both, general framework and methodological inspiration.
The aim of this paper is to understand the character and the role of higher education in business in relation to the wider institutional and structural contexts within which they function. Being loyal to that widespread background, business schools in Chile have become efficient providers of appropriate goods and services for their respective clients and consumers, behaving more like corporations and businesses rather than educational institutions. From this perspective, business education's alignment with the wider political and socio-economic shifts associated with the developments of market economies and economic globalization is a necessary reflection. In this paper we will provide an account of our problematization of management education practices in Chile. This practice was pictured as one of the main characters at the forefront of the Chilean neo-liberal revolution during the final years of the last century. In particular, we will unravel more closely the chain of signifiers articulating the meaning of Chilean higher business education. This articulation is recuperated mainly around how those involved in the management education practice talk about (our)themselves. As well as specialised press writings, some academic accounts and fragments from our own 'ethnographic' involvement are used for this purpose. Particular attention is paid to the social, political and fantasmatic logics (GLYNOS; HOWARTH, 2007) as key elements of our own explanation of this practice, which in turn informs our critical standpoint.
En este artículo presentamos algunos hallazgos de una investigación cualitativa y de carácter biográfico-narrativo, cuyo propósito fue comprender el desarrollo de trayectorias de mujeres académicas en universidades chilenas. Para ello, llevamos a cabo entrevistas biográficas en profundidad a nueve académicas, y analizamos sus experiencias a partir de un modelo que combinó el análisis de acontecimientos biográficos con el análisis narrativo estructural.
A partir de ello, identificamos diversos acontecimientos que han afectado sus experiencias, e identificamos cuatro tipos de trayectorias académicas. Pudimos observar que las mujeres ingresaron a la academia en distintos momentos de sus trayectorias, pero en general, todas han vivido acontecimientos significativos, y para la mayoría de ellas la trayectoria ha sido inestable, compleja y dinámica. Evidenciamos que las mujeres construyen sus trayectorias en el marco de grandes obstáculos y desafíos en un contexto de instituciones generizadas.
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