Reading promotion, conflict negation and peaceful conviviality: the uses and hopes for literary education in Chile

This article inquires into what sort of socioemotional education and conviviality are produced when pleasurable literary reading is encouraged in neoliberal cultures. We critically explore the celebration of reading for socioemotional education as it is produced in official government documents dist...

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Published in:Globalisation, societies and education societies and education, 2024-03, Vol.22 (2), p.379-389
Main Authors: García-González, Macarena, Errázuriz, Valentina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chile
Conflict
Education
Emotions
Happiness
Identity politics
Literary education
Mouffe, Chantal
Neoliberalism
Public officials
socioemotional education
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Summary:This article inquires into what sort of socioemotional education and conviviality are produced when pleasurable literary reading is encouraged in neoliberal cultures. We critically explore the celebration of reading for socioemotional education as it is produced in official government documents distributed to schools in Chile. Assisted by Sara Ahmed's conceptualisation of the cultural politics of emotions and Chantal Mouffe's agonistic theory, we highlight how literary reading is promoted as a tool to manage difference and resolve conflict. We relate the hopes set on reading to a celebratory cult of happiness in which structural injustices are erased.
ISSN:1476-7724
1476-7732
DOI:10.1080/14767724.2021.1932435