Research Clusters I+D+i

Research - Development - Public Advocacy

Diversity and Gender: Intersectional Feminist Approaches (DyG)

This research unit adopts intersectional and decolonial feminist approaches to investigate and transform forms of domination and social exclusion. It questions the depoliticized use of gender and diversity, and promotes feminist epistemologies committed to social transformation. It articulates anti-racist, decolonial, feminist, and environmental struggles, generating situated knowledge from and for social movements.

I+D+i Lines:
  • Public policy and social intervention in gender, migration, sexualities, and functional diversity.
  • Feminist analysis of memory practices and social and popular history.
  • Intersectional analysis of sociopolitical and educational processes.
Projects 2025
  • Inclusion/Exclusion Dynamics in Tertiary Healthcare: toward humanizing care for migrant women.
  • Cooking Dignity.
  • Fighting Like a Girl.
  • Challenges of an Anti-Sexist Education.
Professors
Caterine Galaz Hillary Hiner Lelya Troncoso

Javiera Cubillos

Featured Project

Building Feminist Pedagogical Proposals for Living Lives Free of Violence

Professor: Hillary Hinner

The experience was based on three fundamental concepts to guide and create this project. Using understandings of gender-based violence, popular feminism, and community approaches, embroidery workshop sessions were carried out, culminating in an exhibition.

Partner: Gender Office of the Municipality of Lo Prado.

Students: Constanza Ávila, Florencia Helmke, Gabriela Valdivia, María José Mosciatti, Francisca Pérez, Ornella Cassareggio, and Franco Hidalgo.

Featured Project

Routes of Subaltern Memories: Critical Geographies of the City

Professor: Caterine Galaz

Understanding collective memory as the construction of multi-positioned and gendered subjects; additionally, exploring different intersectional approaches for studying this field.

Partner: Migrant, feminist, and LGBTQ+ organizations. CLACSO Feminist Memories Seminar.

Students: Viktor Madrid, Valentina Cid, Monserrat Pezo, Camila Martínez, Almendra Mariñan, Jessica Lizama, Sofía Cárdenas, Constanza Diaz, Martina Ricciardi, and Consuelo Velásquez.

Featured Project

Building Feminist Pedagogical Proposals for Living Lives Free of Violence

Professor: Lelya Troncoso

This project aims to research and intervene from intersectional feminist and sexual dissident perspectives on anti-sexist education. Students will work with feminist, queer, trans, and other critical theoretical and pedagogical perspectives to support educational processes, design teaching materials, and conduct workshops with secondary students.

Partner: INBA; in discussions with the Municipalities of Santiago and Lo Prado.

Students: Viktor Madrid, Valentina Cid, Monserrat Pezo, Camila Martínez, Almendra Mariñan, Jessica Lizama, Sofía Cárdenas, Constanza Diaz, Martina Ricciardi, and Consuelo Velásquez.

Other links:

Journal of Critical Proposals in Social Work

MAD Journal

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