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Ivette Hernandez Santibañez
Ivette Hernandez Santibañez is lecturer in sociology at the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. Before joining the University of Manchester, she taught at King’s College London, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), UAI Adolfo Ibanez University in Chile and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain. Ivette’s research lies at the intersection of social movements, urban politics and contestation to neo-liberalism in Latin America – with a particular focus on free-market education policy agendas and the transformation of democratic state–society relations in the region. Her Ph.D. thesis examined the socio-spatial constitution of the Chilean student movement and its role in collectively organizing, through demanding free public quality education for all, a larger political strategy to transcend neo-liberalism in Chile and transform state–civil society relations within a post-authoritarian democratic society. Prior to the completion of her Ph.D. at University College London, she worked as a practitioner and education adviser on education, poverty and human rights in post-conflict settings in Latin America.
Contact: The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.