Raising children in hostile worlds in Santiago de Chile: Optimism and 'hyper-agentic' mothers

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dc.contributor.authorMurray, Marjorie
dc.contributor.authorTizzoni, Constanza
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T22:01:35Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T22:01:35Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractBased on an ethnographic research on early mothering with a small and heterogeneous group of women living in different areas of Santiago, Chile - and a follow-up study six years later - in this article we look closely at how mothering takes place through a sense of optimism while living in a hostile world, contrasting our findings with similar research in northern countries. Rather than waiting for opportunities to present themselves, women's sense of optimism is based on their own difficult experiences of learning to cope in a hostile world, and how this requires organizing their children's education to face challenges beyond their immediate family circle. We claim the existence of hyper-agentic motherhood - one that articulates traditional maternalism, increasing societal demands on parenting and the specific take on individuation detached from institutions in neoliberal Chile. Mothering through optimism in a hostile world questions the possibility to import classed parenting models. We identify a resonance with Adrie Kusserow's description of hard individualism in which children are taught how to navigate the hostile world in the search for success, but with the difference that children in this context are brought up with the idea that mothers will be there for them in the long run, regardless of what actually takes place. This longitudinal study of parenting provides information on the usually silent processes of subjectification and emergent values that can be overlooked in times of social transformation.
dc.description.funderChilean National Agency for Research and Development (FONDECYT)
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00380261211056169
dc.identifier.eissn1467-954X
dc.identifier.issn0038-0261
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/00380261211056169
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/93855
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000715275200001
dc.issue.numero1
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final107
dc.pagina.inicio92
dc.revistaSociological review
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectChile
dc.subjectlongitudinal methods
dc.subjectmotherhood
dc.subjectneoliberalism
dc.subjectoptimism
dc.subject.ods04 Quality Education
dc.subject.ods10 Reduced Inequality
dc.subject.odspa04 Educación de calidad
dc.subject.odspa10 Reducción de las desigualdades
dc.titleRaising children in hostile worlds in Santiago de Chile: Optimism and 'hyper-agentic' mothers
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen70
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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