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

García-González, M. and Errázuriz, V. (2021) Reading promotion, conflict negation and peaceful conviviality: the uses and hopes for literary education in Chile. Globalisation, Societies and Education, (doi: 10.1080/14767724.2021.1932435) (Early Online Publication)

Abstract

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.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Early Online Publication
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Garcia Gonzalez, Dr Macarena
• Authors: García-González, M., and Errázuriz, V.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education
• Journal Name: Globalisation, Societies and Education
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• ISSN: 1476-7724
• ISSN (Online): 1476-7732
• Published Online: 07 June 2021
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis Group
• First Published: First published in Globalisation, Societies and Education 2022
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy