Browsing by Author "González Gálvez, Marcelo Ignacio"

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    Devenir emprendedor: subjetividades emergentes y las políticas de fomento al microemprendimiento en Chile
    (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2023) Giminiani, Piergiorgio Di; González Gálvez, Marcelo Ignacio; Gallegos Gutiérrez, Fernanda Victoria María; Quezada Quezada, Constanza Sofía; Turén Croquevielle ,Valentina; Yunis Lizana, Caleb Alejandro
    Based on multi-situated ethnographic research in urban, Indigenous and rural contexts in Chile, this article examines the emergence of multiple subjectivities in populations involved in micro-entrepreneurship development policies. Given the significance of the notions of flexibility and uncertainty in the entrepreneurial training, we argue that small-scale entrepreneurs and public officers actively and critically appropriate dominant economic principles of micro-entrepreneurship, and in doing so, adopt uncertainty and precariousness as a constitutive element of contemporary life. The values of entrepreneurial training thus do not materialise in the formation of individualised entrepreneurial subjects detached from their social contexts, but are rather internalised in ways consistent with the relational practices and ideas which are meaningful in specific social contexts.
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    Innovation as translation in Indigenous entrepreneurship: lessons from Mapuche entrepreneurs in Chile
    (2022) Soto Hernández, Daniela Paz; González Gálvez, Marcelo Ignacio; Di Giminiani, Piergiorgio
    Discourses of innovation are prone to homogenisation, and as such, their effects in the development of Indigenous enterprises are highly ambivalent. The elusiveness of innovation can also work as a flexible set of ideas through which Indigenous entrepreneurs reconfigure existing commercial practices. Focussing on two Mapuche enterprises, this article explores how innovation in the context of Indigenous entrepreneurship is performed as a process of cultural translation. We advance a definition of innovation focused on the transformation of Indigenous daily practices into valuable products within a market dominated by non-Indigenous clients and mediators.
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    Unfinished extinction and the velocities of capitalist sacrificesin the woodlands of central Chile
    (Routledge, 2021) González Gálvez, Marcelo Ignacio; Gallegos, Fernanda; Turén, Valentina
    Through an exploration of the reconstruction process of the town of Santa Olga, which acquired nationwide relevance in Chile when it was destroyed by massive wildfires that occurred in 2017, in this paper we attempt to explain a paradox: that which totally destroys Santa Olga is precisely what ends up saving it. To do this, we first unravel the birth of the town to try to understand why, for its inhabitants, Santa Olga can be sacrificed. Then we describe the visibility that Santa Olga reached, thanks to its tragedy. Finally, we reflect on the way the velocity of disasters enables or limits the visibility of the sacrifices they convey, an interplay that ends with an unfinished extinction.