https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/117665 Artículos de revistas Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:46:23 GMT 2026-04-07T23:46:23Z https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/201774 New house, new furniture, new room: children’s pandemic landscapes of care in Chile Cortés Morales, Susana; Figueroa, Inés; Vergara del Solar, Ana; Jirón Martínez, Paola Standing at the intersection between geographies of care and children’s geographies, we present three ethnographic stories (emerging from three ethnographic studies) through which we argue that, as a result of pandemic confinement in Chile, children’s places within their landscapes of care shifted in a twofold sense: First, given the de‐mobilisation and spatial concentration of spaces of care at home, children’s place became closer to adults,’ suspending the usual spatial segregation that separates them. And second, in tandem with this new proximity that we refer to as in‐person family relationships, new possibilities for the involvement of children in family care practices emerged. This rearrangement of children’s places within landscapes of care brings to the fore two interrelated aspects of family care from children’s perspective. First, the kind and amount of in‐person family time spent in a shared space in “normal” times was not enough from the perspective of children’s needs and interests. And second, even though children are usually seen as subjects of care, they are people who care for others and who are able to take on more caring responsibilities than the ones that they usually are expected to. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/201774 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/195875 Anthropogenic influence on surface changes at the Olivares glaciers; Central Chile Barandun, Martina; Bravo, Claudio; Grobety, Bernard; Jenk, Theo; Fang, Ling; Naegeli, Kathrin; Rivera Ibáñez, Sergio Andrés; Cisternas, Sebastián; Münster, Tatjana; Schwikowski, Margit We have investigated the source and role of light-absorbing impurities (LAIs) deposited on the glaciers of the Olivares catchment, in Central Chile. LAIs can considerably darken (lowered albedo) the glacier surface, enhancing their melt. We combined chemical and mineralogical laboratory analyses of surface and ice core samples with field-based spectral reflectance measurements to investigate the nature and properties of such LAIs. Using remote sensing-based albedo maps, we upscaled local information to glacier-wide coverage. We then used a model to evaluate the sensitivity of sur -face mass balance to a change in ice and snow albedo. The across-scale surface observations in combination with ice core analysis revealed a history of over half a century of LAIs deposition. We found traces of mining residuals in glacier surface samples. The glaciers with highest mass loss in the catchment present enhanced concentrations of surface dust particles with low reflectance properties. Our results indicate that dust particles with strong light-absorbing capacity have been mobilized from mine tailings and deposited on the nearby glacier surfaces. Large-scale assessment from satellite-based observations revealed darkening (ice albedo lowering) at most investigated glacier tongues from 1989 to 2018. Glacier melt is sensitive to ice albedo. We believe that an accelerated winter and spring snow albedo decrease, partially triggered by surface impurities, might be responsible for the above-average mass loss encountered in this catchment. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/195875 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/195551 Advancing recognition justice in telecoupled critical mineral supply chains: the promise of social media Agusdinata, Datu Buyung; Eakin, Hallie; Darnall, Nicole; Jiang, Bohan; Romero Aravena, Hugo Electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies are increasingly scrutinized for the injustices they impose on critical-mineral mining communities. Injustices arise because local communities that are disproportionately affected by mining are materially and cognitively distant to those who hold influence over supply chain practices, policies, and institutions. The outcome is that these communities lack recognition by producers and consumers who benefit from critical mineral extractions. We focus on the promise of social media as a means to assist distant local communities gain recognition as important stakeholders and as a vehicle for informing mineral-consuming public. Using a case study of the impacts of lithium extraction in Chile, we analyze social media (Twitter) to establish evidence of the telecoupled information flows for communicating the nature of impacts of lithium extraction and the potential for advancing recognition justice. Our findings offer initial evidence of the potential role of social media as a mechanism to: (1) improve the flow of information and knowledge from mineral mining sites into social networks, (2) give voice to local stakeholders who otherwise are not heard, (3) enhance recognition justice for these distal communities. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/195551 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/194898 Labores de cuidado y covid-19: cambios en la movilidad cotidiana de mujeres en Santiago, Chile Zúñiga Olave, Catalina Paz; Herrmann Lunecke, Marie Geraldine Since 2020, the world has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, causing significant changes in cities, affecting the daily mobility of people, and exacerbating inequalities, particularly for women. Confinement has deepened gender inequality in different dimensions and contexts, whereby many women, as part of their reproductive roles, have assumed more care and domestic work in various spaces, especially at home and in their neighborhoods. This article analyzes the impact of the pandemic on the daily mobility of women linked to their care work in the San Cristobal neighborhood of Recoleta in Santiago, Chile. With this aim, online in-depth interviews and exploratory maps were conducted with women who perform care work, comparing their work and daily mobility before and during the pandemic. The results show that since the pandemic began, the gender inequality experienced by women has increased, as reflected in their daily activities, particularly in relation to the increase in domestic work and care work. Likewise, a change is observed in the daily mobility of women who perform care work, as they have focused more on walking and movement within their own neighborhoods to cover basic needs.; Desde el año 2020 el mundo vive en un contexto de pandemia debido a la covid-19, lo cual ha significado cambios drásticos en las ciudades y en la movilidad cotidiana de las personas y ha agudizado las desigualdades, en particular para las mujeres. El confinamiento profundizó la desigualdad de género en diferentes dimensiones y contextos, pues muchas mujeres han debido asumir, como parte de su rol reproductivo, una carga mayor de labores de cuidado y tareas domésticas en distintos entornos, sobre todo en el hogar y en el barrio. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el impacto de la pandemia en la movilidad cotidiana ligada a las labores de cuidado de mujeres del barrio San Cristóbal en Recoleta, Santiago, Chile. Con este fin se realizaron mapas exploratorios virtuales y entrevistas semiestructuradas a mujeres que realizan labores de cuidado, comparando dichas labores y la movilidad cotidiana antes y durante la pandemia. Los resultados muestran que desde el confinamiento pandémico se ha acrecentado la desigualdad de género que viven las mujeres, reflejada en sus actividades cotidianas, particularmente en relación con el aumento del trabajo doméstico y las labores de cuidado. Asimismo, se observa un cambio en la movilidad cotidiana de las mujeres cuidadoras, centrada más en la caminata y ubicada en el entorno barrial a fin de cubrir sus necesidades básicas. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/194898 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z