Katia Valenzuela Fuentes is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Universidad de Concepción.
She is a sociologist and holds a master’s degree in Politics and Government from Universidad de Concepción and FLACSO Chile, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Nottingham, UK.
RESEARCH AREAS
Her main research interests include political sociology, social and socio-environmental movements, urban sociology, participatory action research and critical epistemologies.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
Valenzuela-Fuentes, K., Salinas, R. T., & Henríquez, B. J. (2023). Struggles for the defence of territories and decolonial politics in Southern Chile. Globalizations, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2243751
Valenzuela-Fuentes, K., Alarcón-Barrueto, E., & Salinas, R. T. (2021). From Resistance to Creation: Socio-Environmental Activism in Chile’s “Sacrifice Zones”. Sustainability, 13(6), 3481. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063481
Paredes, J. P., & Valenzuela-Fuentes, K. (2020). ¿No es la forma? La contribución político-cultural de las luchas estudiantiles a la emergencia del largo octubre chileno. Ultima Década, 28(54), 69-94. https://doi.org/10.4067/s0718-22362020000200069
Motta, S., Bermúdez, L., Valenzuela -Fuentes, K., & Dixon, E. (2020). Student Movements in Latin America: Decolonizing and Feminizing Education and Life. Oxford Research Encyclopedia Of Politics. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1721
Polanska, D. V., Valenzuela-Fuentes, K., & Kaun, A. (2019). Housing activism: overlooked forms, practices and implications. Housing Studies, 34(10), 1585-1587. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2019.1658721
Valenzuela-Fuentes, K. (2018). Militant ethnography and autonomous politics in Latin America. Qualitative Research, 19(6), 718-734. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794118787712
Simon, J. W., & Valenzuela-Fuentes, K. (2016). Civil Society Reconstruction: Popular Organizations in Postearthquake Concepción. Latin American Perspectives, 44(4), 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582×16637874
