Forcing/Stretching the Academic Harness in Chile: A Critical Analysis of an International Academic Mobility Policy

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Abstract

This paper examines how rationales and ways of knowledge production promoted by a Chilean international academic mobility policy are resisted/negotiated/transformed by social science scholars.
Using qualitative methodology, our findings show that the government frames this policy in strategic goals –having world-class skills/connections to enhance society-, whereas for the professors we interviewed it means an opportunity of constructing knowledge otherwise. Overall, our findings suggest a rationale that leaves out the discussion about what, how and for what the knowledge construction happens in the Chilean context. Thus, we argue that “international academic mobility” is a space from where we can problematize the ways that construction of knowledge is regulated in the Chilean academic context.

Authors

• AnaLuisa Munoz-Garcia, Universidad Andres Bello

• Roxana Chiappa