Chile in the World-System: The Historical Bifurcation Fascism, Popular Self-Management, and the Other Longue Durée (by Ignacio Muñoz-Cristi)

 

Ignacio Muñoz-Cristi is a Chilean researcher and academic. He holds a PhD in Psychology and an MA in Social Psychology from Universidad Diego Portales, and a degree in Historical Anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México. He is a professor at the School of Psychology of Universidad Mayor, Chile, and a director of the Humberto Maturana Institute, Brazil.

Since 2000, his research and reflections have engaged with world-systems analysis. His 2004 undergraduate thesis examined utopistics and the fragmentation of the social sciences, exploring a dialogue between Immanuel Wallerstein’s unidisciplinary perspective and the Ontological-Constitutive Thinking of Chilean biologist and epistemologist Humberto Maturana, with whom he studied and worked from 2001 to 2010.

His master’s and doctoral research has focused on urban popular antisystemic movements, self-management, and the social production of habitat. He is a militant of the Movimiento de Pobladores en Lucha (MPL), a Chilean urban popular movement, bringing together academic research, epistemological reflection, and political praxis. His publications include “Popular Self-Management, Social Intervention, and Utopistics in the Capitalist World-System” 

(Review, Fernand Braudel Center, 2015).

His current research explores civilizational crisis, historical bifurcation, and possibilities for building other worlds, incorporating developments in ontotechnology and anthroporobotics from a biological-cultural and ontological-constitutive perspective.

Contribution to Caravanserai; 

Chile in the World-System: The Historical Bifurcation Fascism, Popular Self-Management, and the Other Longue Durée

 


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