Alejandra Luneke is a professor at the Department of Sociology of the Universidad Alberto Hurtado since 2020, an adjunct researcher at the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES), and a senior researcher at the Millennium Institute on Violence and Democracy Research (VIODEMOS).
She holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). She has a master’s degree in Sociology and Urban Development, and a PhD in Sociology from PUC.
RESEARCH AREAS
She has specialized in the study of urban violence and fear, studies in neighborhoods on the urban margins, and public policies involving citizen participation at the territorial level. In terms of teaching, her experience has focused on qualitative/ethnographic research methodologies, urban sociology, urban conflict, and violence and insecurity in Chile and Latin America.
She is the Principal Investigator of Fondecyt Regular Project No. 1240879 “Gender, policing, urban margins: exploring the practices and social interactions of policewomen with subjects in Chile” (2024–2027).
LATEST 10 PUBLICATIONS
Navarrete-Hernández, P., Luneke, A., Truffello, R., & Fuentes, L. (2023). Planning for fear of crime reduction: Assessing the impact of public space regeneration on safety perceptions in deprived neighborhoods. Landscape And Urban Planning, 237, 104809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104809
Luneke, A. & Trebilcock, M. P (2023). Prevención del delito, la construcción de la seguridad ciudadana y los cambios en la política criminal en Chile. 1990-2017. Política Criminal, 18(35), 352-377. https://doi.org/10.4067/s0718-33992023000100352
Luneke, A., et al (2023). Políticas neoliberales en los márgenes urbanos. Revista Mexicana de Sociología. http://revistamexicanadesociologia.unam.mx/index.php/rms/article/view/61146/53965
Sobalvarro, A. M. A., & Luneke, A. (2022). Inseguridad y producción del espacio: la paradoja de la prevención situacional del delito. Revista de Urbanismo, 46, 95-111. https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2022.61517
Luneke, A., Dammert, L., & Zuñiga, L. (2022). From Social Assistance to Control in Urban Margins: Ambivalent Police Practices in Neoliberal Chile. Dilemas : Revista de Estudos de Conflito E Controle Social, 15(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v15n1.42944
Luneke, A., Risør, H., & Martínez, W. (2022). Policía militarizada en Chile: claves para comprender la violencia policial estatal en la relación al conflicto mapuche. Anuari del Conflicte Social, 13.https://doi.org/10.1344/acs2022.13.8
Luneke, A., Rasse, A., & Ugalde, I. (2021). In-movilidades del cuidado: espacios y prácticas generizadas en territorios urbanos segregados. ARQ, 109, 38-49. https://doi.org/10.4067/s0717-69962021000300038
Luneke, A., Trebilcock, M. P., & Robles, S. (2020). Transformaciones urbanas, temor y empeligrosamiento social en vecindarios:el caso de Maipú, Santiago de Chile. Bitácora Urbano Territorial/Bitácora Urbano Territorial, 31(1), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v31n1.86862
Luneke, A., & Varela, F. (2020). Violencia y seguridad en los márgenes urbanos: la respuesta chilena en los vecindarios (2001-2019). CS, 43-75. https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i32.4055
Trebilcock, M. P., & Luneke, A. (2018). Crime Prevention and the Coproduction of Security: Outcomes of Citizen Participation at the Neighborhood Level in Neoliberal Chile. Latin American Perspectives, 46(6), 56-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582×18803681