Carlos Piñones RiveraUniversity of Tarapacá | UTA · Departamento de Ciencias Sociales
Carlos Piñones Rivera
PhD Medical Anthropology, Psychologist
Fondecyt Sarnaqaña
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Introduction
Psychologist and Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology. I feel part of the Gramscian Latinamerican Critical Medical Anthropology that has developed Eduardo Menéndez. Working in the Intercultural Health field since 2007, I'm passioned for the local problems we confront in Tarapacá. I'm co-founder member of the "Cooperativa Apacheta" (Tarapacá), the "Colectivo de Psicología Crítica Sembrando Dignidad", and since 2017, the technical editor of Si Somos Americanos, Journal of Cross-Border Studies from the Institute of International Studies (INTE-UNAP). Now I'm a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) and the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine (BCSM).
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September 2018 - present
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The papers in this special section work together to move toward a global social medicine for the 22nd century. They envision a global social medicine that confronts and moves beyond the traditionally colonial, xenophobic, heteronormative, patriarchal, gender-binary-bound, capitalist, and racist histories of the fields of global health and human rig...
This paper reflects on the right to health care from the Indigenous research paradigm. We analyze the case of an Aymara wise warmi (woman) who died after the Chilean health care system failed to provide culturally appropriate care. In the wake of her death, our cooperative launched an interdisciplinary and collaborative research project in an effor...
Las ciencias sociales han estudiado el sistema de relaciones raciales, concluyendo que construye relaciones desiguales de poder, de dominación, sumisión y exterminio. El racismo ha sido definido como una ideología, una doctrina, un proceso, una estructura y una práctica (Quintero, 2010), facetas que se articulan fortaleciendo su eficacia, la que im...
En un contexto de creciente neoliberalización económica y precarización del sistema de salud chileno, las poblaciones migrantes del norte de Chile no solo cruzan las fronteras para buscar atención dentro del sistema sanitario formal, sino que también hacen uso de una economía popular transfronteriza, que resulta clave para satisfacer sus necesidade...
The concept of the social determinants of health has become increasingly accepted and mainstream in anglophone public health over the past three decades. Moreover, it has been widely adopted into diverse geographic, sociocultural, and linguistic contexts. By recognizing the role of social conditions in influencing health inequalities, the concept c...
The concept of the social determinants of health has become increasingly accepted and mainstream in anglophone public health over the past three decades. Moreover, it has been widely adopted into diverse geographic, sociocultural, and linguistic contexts. By recognizing the role of social conditions in influencing health inequalities, the concept c...
This is an Author’s Original Manuscript (AOM) of an article published by Taylor & Francis in
Global Public Health on 11-08-2022, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17441692.2022.2111452
In the current historical moment of rewriting the Chilean Constitution, there are new hopes for producing a different socio-legal, political-economic and public health order. The Chilean case holds important implications for global health practitioners, researchers and policy-makers because it clearly shows both the impacts of neoliberal processes...
The commodification of healthcare and the structural violence towards the migrant population in the Chilean system materialize in a series of structural barriers to accessing healthcare. In the face of this structural vulnerability, cross-border health mobility is one of the primary resources of indigenous border migrants living in the Tarapacá reg...
Migrants along the US-Mexico border have been subjected to transnational violence created by international policy, militaristic intervention, and multinational organizational administration of border operations. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded migrants' vulnerabilities and provoked several logistical and ethical problems for US-based clinicians an...
As made clear by diverse research in critical public health and the medical social sciences, social inequities in health reflect a paradox central to global health: while social structures are often invoked discursively, they are not sufficiently investigated nor responded to in public health, clinical practice, nor policy. In recent years, structu...
Este artículo propone una interpretación psicoanalítica del mito de la novia de Azapa de la ciudad de Arica en el norte de Chile.
La interpretación se ha sostenido luego de establecer el texto del mito a partir de fuentes bibliográficas y documentales (prensa)
que han sido complementadas con entrevistas en profundidad a dos informantes clave empare...
RESUMEN Este artículo retoma la discusión crítica que se ha dado a nivel internacional sobre la consideración del tráfico de migrantes como un delito. Se enfoca en el caso de la migración clandestina en tránsito de cubanos y cubanas hacia Chile, asociada al tráfico de migrantes, entendido este último como migración forzada. A partir de un seguimien...
Based on the authors’ work in Latin America and Africa, this article describes and applies the concept ‘structural vulnerability’ to the challenges of clinical care and healthcare advocacy for migrants. This concept helps consider how specific social, economic and political hierarchies and policies produce and pattern poor health in two case studie...
This article critically analyzes the three major contemporary theoretical approaches in addressing health and migration: the social determinants of health approach of the World Health Organization; studies on transnationalism and health; and current proposals on structural vulnerability. To this end, the core ideas that characterize each of these a...
El artículo analiza críticamente las tres aproximaciones teóricas contemporáneas más importantes en el abordaje del binomio salud-migración: el enfoque de determinantes sociales de la Organización Mundial de la Salud; los estudios sobre transnacionalismo y salud; y las propuestas sobre vulnerabilidad estructural. Se exponen las ideas centrales que...
The article addresses the issue of the epistemological obstacles present in the study of the relationship between medical pluralism and human mobility. It offers a critical review of the existing bibliography on these topics, revealing how classic studies focused on medical pluralism left aside three fundamental aspects that form what we refer to a...
En este capítulo, como se señala como nota introductoria al texto, se propone un intercambio de perspectivas no necesariamente coincidentes, sobre un tema que hemos considerado fundamental en los estudios sobre las fronteras como es la relación entre la subjetividad y las fronteras. Un tópico complejo que en muchos casos se aborda de manera tangenc...
This article proposes an analysis of the relationships between Pentecostalism and crossborder migrations through a constellation of concepts that seek to overcome static and essentialist ideas about Pentecostal identity and the supposed centrality that said identity could have in the consideration of transnational migratory processes (Pentecoscentr...
Based on the relations between the Aymara people and the State of Chile, this article analyzes two crucial dimensions for international studies. On the one hand, it studies the ideas, debates and practices of State sovereignty in borderland areas and contrasts them with the narrative of the Aymara people that inhabit these cross-border spaces; on t...
The article proposes a reading of the border as a social and cultural construction through the concept of symbolic frontierization. It analyzes the representations and symbolic practices that Pentecostalism constructs on the border, showing the processes that take place between center and border Pentecostalism and specifying what we call an “altipl...
There are few studies that address the ideological processes present in the intercultural relations fostered by the Indigenous Peoples Health initiatives in Chile. Our objective is to show how the ideological elements of Biomedical Knowledge contribute to the subordination of Andean Knowledge within these programs. For this, we will exhibit ethnogr...
Desde hace una década, varios autores anglófonos, centrados principalmente en el análisis e intervención de los procesos de determinación social de la salud de los migrantes, forjaron el concepto de vulnerabilidad estructural, como una forma de combatir el individualismo, el biologismo, la invisibilización de los procesos de determinación estructur...
A decade ago, a number of English-speaking authors focused mainly on the analysis and intervention of processes of social determination of health of migrants developed the concept of structural vulnerability as a way to combat individualism, biologism, the invisibilization of processes of structural determination and the blaming of victims. As part...
A decade ago, a number of English-speaking authors focused mainly on the
analysis and intervention of processes of social determination of health of migrants developed the concept of structural vulnerability as a way to combat individualism, biologism, the invisibilization of processes of structural determination and the blaming of victims.
As pa...
Resumen. La dictadura militar que vivió Chile entre los años 1973 y 1990 persiguió punitivamente a sus detractores, motivo por el que miles de personas tuvieron que abandonar el país para proteger su integridad. Entre los distintos destinos escogidos por la diáspora, Suecia fue una sociedad hospitalaria por el contexto social y político imperante....
El presente es el borrador del libro Violencia en la toma, publicado hace unos meses en RIL editores. Para adquirir la versión definitiva https://rileditores.publica.la/library/filter?author=Carlos%20Pi%C3%B1ones%20Rivera
The aim of this article is to illustrate how indigenous migrant peoples (quechuas and aymaras) are carriers of a pluri-identity forged on the basis of nationalism, religion, indigenous identity, gender, class, and the migrant condition. It is argued that there is no all-embracing identity, but a pluri-identity from which individuals highlight or co...
This article discusses our analysis of the experience of conversion to Pentecostalism in a context of medical pluralism in Chile. We rely on testimonies obtained from an ethnography with Aymara farmers in the town of Camiña (Tarapacá, Chile), from which we analyze religious conversion as a contextualized process in the dispute over the hegemony of...
The article addresses the obstacles to the study of the relationships between Medical Pluralism and human mobility. We critically review the existing literature on Medical Pluralism and Mobility, showing how the classic studies of medical pluralism neglected three fundamental aspects that make up what we call non-situated Medical Pluralism: mobilit...
Abstract. The aim of this article is to analyze the semantics that has acquired the fear’s symbolism in the culture of Chilean Pentecostalism. By means of the revision and analysis of bibliographic information, we will show how the figure of fear is revealed in the images of hell, the Devil and God. Then we will provide an interpretation of the sym...
Las nociones locales de mal paraje y mala hora son claves para explicar los orígenes de muchas enfermedades en el saber médico andino. Pese a su importancia etnográfica, ni la investigación antropológica ni el saber biomédico han tratado adecuadamente estas distinciones locales, relegándolas muchas veces al olvido. Nuestro objetivo es explorar el o...
The relation between individual and society has been a main topic across the history of social sciences. The aim of this paper is to show the originality of Sigmund Freud's ideas about the topic, through a comparative analysis with the approaches of the socio-anthropological currents of the school of Culture and Personality (Margaret Mead, Ruth Ben...
Resumen. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo exponer tres críticas claves a la psicología como ideología. Néstor Braunstein, Ian Parker y Carlos Pérez Soto, han presentado en sus obras, reflexiones respecto al carácter ideológico y de dominación de la psicología como instrumento de control social. En este contexto, se hace un esfuerzo para pod...
Resumen El artículo desarrolla un análisis documental de la Política de Salud Pueblos Indígenas chilena desde la Antropología Médica Crítica. Entendiendo las políticas públicas como producciones ideológicas, la contextualiza en la apuesta gubernamental del “Multiculturalismo neoliberal”, analizando el sentido que en ese marco tienen los ejes de int...
In this article the authors describe the conceptions of cultural identity that are expressed by young evangelical Christian Aymara women from the region of Tarapacá in Chile. There is a gap in the scientific knowledge regarding the identity processes that occur in the Pentecostal Aymara population, including systematic gender distinctions. The mate...
(analítico): en este artículo de investigación científica son descritas las concepciones sobre identidad cultural que expresan las jóvenes evangélicas aymaras de la región de Tarapacá en Chile, por medio de las cuales se enfrenta el vacío en el conocimiento sobre los procesos identitarios en poblaciones de jóvenes pentecostales aymaras, que incluye...
Existen pocos estudios sobre el pluralismo médico entre los aymaras de Chile. El presente artículo presenta y analiza material de campo producto de una etnografía sobre la articulación de saberes médicos realizada los años 2011-2012 entre los agricultores de Camiña (región de Tarapacá, Chile), focalizándose la díada de los Saberes Médicos Andino y...
The objective of this article is to analyze the indigenous evangelical migrants' beliefs about Chilean Pentecostalism, exploring the relationship between this form of Pentecostalism and that which they professed in their countries of origin. This vision is complemented by the nostalgic vision that evidences a sector of Pentecostalism and a generati...
Se analizan las motivaciones, los intereses y las preocupaciones de los pentecostales por los pobres, siguiendo las transformaciones en las estrategias sociales, políticas, de beneficencia y paliativas de superación de la pobreza en Chile. Caracterizan cuatro momentos: el “pentecostalismo como auto-organización de los pobres”, el “socialismo pentec...
O artigo apresenta a importância histórica do pastor protestante Charles Sadleir no desenvolvimento inicial dos movimentos políticos assimilacionistas mapuche, primeira metade do século XX. Sua influência é exposta no despertar da consciência étnica mapuche, no desenvolvimento de liderança política, na presente conjuntura da luta de classes, no des...
The objective of this article is to analyze the indigenous evangelical migrants' beliefs about Chilean Pentecostalism, exploring the relationship between this form of Pentecostalism and that which they professed in their countries of origin. This vision is complemented by the nostalgic vision that evidences a sector of Pentecostalism and a generati...
Health care of indigenous people has been a recurrent topic in the late 20 years in Chile, and it has become a matter of the interest to different actors of civil society, within the indigenous world as well as the non-indigenous world, a subject that constitutes a significant part of governments and academic agendas. Nevertheless, there is an evid...
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El proyecto tiene como objetivo analizar las ideas y prácticas internacionales de los pueblos originarios, y cómo a partir de ellas son problematizados los elementos constitutivos del orden internacional estadocéntrico. Además, se propone identificar las contribuciones que estos pueblos pueden realizar a las relaciones internacionales en términos ontológicos y prácticos. Para ello, la propuesta se centra en el estudio de las ideas y prácticas internacionales Aymara y Mapuche en Regiones Transfronterizas (RTF). Ambos pueblos, poseen comunidades en territorios que trascienden las limitaciones fronterizas nacionales contemporáneas (Chile-Bolivia-Perú y Chile-Argentina, respectivamente), llevando a cabo relaciones (ancestrales y contemporáneas) que, si bien son amparadas por la normativa internacional (Convenio 169 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo; Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas), a la vez se enfrentan con las atribuciones soberanas del Estado sobre el territorio y su representación en el sistema internacional.
