Jorge Pavez Ojeda

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Jorge Pavez Ojeda is a noted scholar confronting the violence not merely of the dictatorship but its neoliberal aftermath exemplified in the dossier for the October 2023 issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on social media and social movements and his introduction to, “The Book of Revolt and the House of Rejection: On Neoliberalism and the Constitutional Process in Chile, 2019–2022” and his book, Imbunches de la dictadura. El fundamento sádico de la dominación neoliberal (Santiago: Metales Pesados, 2023), Pavez Ojeda’s work focuses on visual studies, political anthropology and the historical sociology of race, gender and ethnicity in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has published the books Cartas Mapuche. Siglo XIX (Santiago: CoLibris/OchoLibros, 2008), Laboratorios etnográficos. Los archivos de la antropología en Chile (Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2015), Imágenes de la revolución industrial. Robert Gertsman en las minas de Bolivia (La Paz: Plural, 2016, con Pascale Absi). He has also published essays on the anthropology of Afro-Cuban music in Latin American Music Review (2016) and Hau: Journal of ethnographic theory (2021), and on visual anthropology and political history in Aisthesis: revista de investigaciones estéticas (2009), Historia Crítica (2014 y 2022), The Journal of Latin America and Caribbean Antropology (2022), South Atlantic Quarterly (2023), escrituras americanas (2024) and Slavery & Abolition (2025).

Pavez Ojeda will present aspects of the important work emerging from the research project he led between 2021 and 2024 on a grant from the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo in Chile: “Visual Sociology of the Uprising: study on temporalities, medias, contagion and the violence of images in the recent mass mobilization in Chile.” The proposal is for a lecture and workshop that would explore the potentials of the popular sound-image and the soundspheres of popular revolt in the context of recent mass mobilization in Chile.

More information please check out Pavez Ojeda’s website.