Genocidal social practices: The transformation of chilean school education between 1979 and 1990

Abstract

This article analyzes the existence of genocidal social practices in Chilean school education, as part of a general process of social economic transformation driven by the civil-military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). The originality of the research is that, thanks to a corpus of thousands of secret archives, it makes it possible to see how an authoritarian regime operated in its institutional intimacy to impose changes in social relations.