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.